Kan

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)