# Lan

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**Lan** or **LAN** may refer to:

## Science and technology

- [Local asymptotic normality](/source/Local_asymptotic_normality), a fundamental property of regular models in statistics
- [Longitude of the ascending node](/source/Longitude_of_the_ascending_node), one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in space
- [Łan](/source/%C5%81an), unit of measurement in Poland
- [Local area network](/source/Local_area_network), a computer network that interconnects within a limited area such as one or more buildings
- [Lan blood group system](/source/Lan_blood_group_system), a human blood group
- [Lanthanum nitride](/source/Lanthanum_nitride), a chemical compound whose formula is LaN

## Places

- [Lan County](/source/Lan_County), Shanxi, China
- [Łan, Lublin Voivodeship](/source/%C5%81an,_Lublin_Voivodeship), Poland
- [Lan (agrotown)](/source/Lan_(agrotown)), agrotown in Nyasvizh district, Minsk region, Belarus
- [Lan (river)](/source/Lan_(river)), Belarus
- [Llan (placename)](/source/Llan_(placename)), a placename element known in Breton as *lan*
- LAN - Chapman code of [Lancashire](/source/Lancashire), England - National Rail station code of [Lancaster railway station](/source/Lancaster_railway_station), England - IATA airport code of [Capital Region International Airport](/source/Capital_Region_International_Airport), Lansing, Michigan, US

## Airlines

- [LAN Airlines](/source/LATAM_Airlines), former name of LATAM Chile, an airline in Chile, with a stake in other airlines: - [LAN Peru](/source/LATAM_Peru), an airline based in Peru - [LAN Ecuador](/source/LATAM_Ecuador), an airline based in Quito, Ecuador - [LAN Argentina](/source/LATAM_Argentina), a defunct Argentine airline - [LAN Dominicana](/source/LAN_Dominicana), a defunct Dominican airline - [LAN Colombia](/source/LATAM_Colombia), an airline based in Bogotá, Colombia

## People

- [Lan (surname 蓝)](/source/Lan_(surname_%E8%93%9D)), a Chinese surname
- [Lan (surname 兰)](/source/Lan_(surname_%E5%85%B0)), a Chinese surname
- [Lan (given name)](/source/Lan_(given_name)), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
- [Lan (tribe)](/source/Lan_(tribe)), ethnic group in Han dynasty China
- [David Lan](/source/David_Lan) (born 1952), South African-born British playwright
- [Donald Lan](/source/Donald_Lan) (1930–2019), American politician
- [Phạm Chi Lan](/source/Ph%E1%BA%A1m_Chi_Lan), Vietnamese economist

## Fictional characters

- Lan, Aeon of The Hunt in [Honkai: Star Rail](/source/Honkai:_Star_Rail)
- [Lan Mandragoran](/source/Lan_Mandragoran), a fictional character from Robert Jordan's *The Wheel of Time* series
- [Lan Hikari](/source/Lan_Hikari), protagonist of the *Mega Man: Battle Network* series of video games and animated television shows

## Other uses

- [*Lan* (film)](/source/Lan_(film)), a 2009 Chinese film
- [Län](/source/L%C3%A4n), administrative division used in Sweden and until 2009 in Finland
- [Lan (tribe)](/source/Lan_(tribe)), a tribe of Eastern Huns
- *Lan*, a [Cantonese profanity](/source/Cantonese_profanity#Lan)
- LAN or [Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam](/source/Lockwood,_Andrews_%26_Newnam), an American civil engineering company
- [List of storms named Lan](/source/List_of_storms_named_Lan)

## See also

- [LAN party](/source/LAN_party), a social happening on a local area network e.g multiplayer games.
- [Lans (disambiguation)](/source/Lans_(disambiguation))
- [Ian](/source/Ian)
- [Llan (disambiguation)](/source/Llan_(disambiguation))
- [Лан](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%BD)

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