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Kan or KAN may refer to:
- Iwasawa decomposition (KAN) a mathematical process dealing with Lie groups
- Club of Committed Non-Party Members (KAN), a tiny liberal party in the Czech Republic
- Kan variation of the Sicilian Defence, a chess opening
Places
- Kan River in Russia
- Kan District of Iran
- Stadsregio Arnhem-Nijmegen, formerly known as Knooppunt Arnhem-Nijmegen, a metropolitan area in the Netherlands.
- Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, the airport serving Kano, Nigeria
- Kannapolis (Amtrak station), North Carolina, United States
- Kansas, a U.S. state
- Kolégium Antona Neuwirtha, an educational institution named after a Slovak politician and intellectual Anton Neuwirth in Ivanka pri Dunaji, Slovakia.
People
- Kan (surname)
- One of the Bacabs of Mayan mythology
- Shimozawa Kan
- Kan (musician), Japanese singer-songwriter
Music
- "Kan" (song), the Israeli entry at the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest
- Kanye West
- KAN, folk supergroup from various parts of the British Isles, including Brian Finnegan and Aidan O'Rourke
- Kan-swar, a linking note (grace note) in Indian classical music
Weights and measures
- Catty, or kan (斤), a Chinese unit of weight equal to 16 tael
- A Japanese unit of mass, equal to 1,000 momme (kan (貫) or kanme (貫目))
- A traditional unit of length and/or area used in Korean Joseon Era buildings
See also
- Kaan (disambiguation)
- Kane (disambiguation)
- Khan (disambiguation)
- Kahn (German surname)
- Can (disambiguation)
- Kang (disambiguation)
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