# Kan

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**Kan** or **KAN** may refer to:

## Places

- [Kan (river)](/source/Kan_(river)), a tributary of the Yenisey in Russia
- [Kan District](/source/Kan_District) of Iran
- [Kan, Kyrgyzstan](/source/Kan,_Kyrgyzstan), a village in Batken Region
- [Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport](/source/Mallam_Aminu_Kano_International_Airport), Kano, Nigeria, IATA code
- [Kannapolis (Amtrak station)](/source/Kannapolis_(Amtrak_station)), North Carolina, US, station code
- [Kansas](/source/Kansas), a U.S. state

## People

- [Kan (surname)](/source/Kan_(surname)), including a list of people with the surname
- One of the [Bacabs](/source/Bacab) of Mayan mythology
- [Kan (musician)](/source/Kan_(musician)), Japanese singer-songwriter
- [Kan Kimura](/source/Kan_Kimura) (born 1966), Japanese scholar
- [Kan Otake](/source/Kan_Otake) (born 1983), Japanese professional baseball player
- [Kan Shimozawa](/source/Kan_Shimozawa) (1892–1968), Japanese novelist
- [Kanye West](/source/Kanye_West), American musician who is sometimes known as just "Kan"

## Music

- ["Kan" (song)](/source/Kan_(song)), Israeli Eurovision song in 1991
- KAN, UK folk supergroup with [Brian Finnegan](/source/Brian_Finnegan) and [Aidan O'Rourke](/source/Aidan_O'Rourke_(musician))

## In science and technology

- *kan*, PDP ligand, [kanamycin A](/source/Kanamycin_A)
- [Iwasawa decomposition](/source/Iwasawa_decomposition) of a Lie group in mathematics
- [Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks](/source/Kolmogorov-Arnold_Networks), a type of artificial neural network architecture

## Weights and measures

- A [Japanese unit of mass](/source/Japanese_units_of_measurement#Mass) (貫)
- [Kan](/source/Kan_(Korean_unit_of_length)), a Korean unit of length

## Other uses

- Dated transliteration of [Gan](/source/Gan_(disambiguation)) in Chinese contexts
- [Kan language (disambiguation)](/source/Kan_language_(disambiguation)), several languages
- [Kananook railway station](/source/Kananook_railway_station), Melbourne
- [Club of Committed Non-Party Members](/source/Club_of_Committed_Non-Party_Members) (KAN), Czech Republic
- Variation of the [Sicilian Defence](/source/Sicilian_Defence#Kan_(Paulsen)_Variation:_4...a6) in chess
- Kan (Hebrew: כאן, lit. 'Here'), the [Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation](/source/Israeli_Public_Broadcasting_Corporation)
- A [string](/source/String_of_cash_coins_(currency_unit)) of [Japanese mon coins](/source/Japanese_mon_(currency))

## See also

- [Can (disambiguation)](/source/Can_(disambiguation))
- [Kaan (disambiguation)](/source/Kaan_(disambiguation))
- [Kahn](/source/Kahn) (German surname)
- [Kane (disambiguation)](/source/Kane_(disambiguation))
- [Kang (disambiguation)](/source/Kang_(disambiguation))
- [Kann (disambiguation)](/source/Kann_(disambiguation))
- [Khan (disambiguation)](/source/Khan_(disambiguation))
- [幹 (disambiguation)](/source/%E5%B9%B9_(disambiguation))

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