Lan

A LAN is a local area network, a computer network covering a small local area, such as a home or office.

LAN or Lan may also refer to:

Places

• Lancashire, England, by Chapman code
• Lancaster railway station, England, by National Rail station code
• Capital Region International Airport, Lansing, Michigan, US, by IATA airport code
• Lan County, Shanxi, China
• Łan, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland
• Llan (placename), a placename element in the Brittonic languages

Airlines

• LAN Airlines, former name of LATAM Chile, an airline in Chile, with a stake in other airlines:
• LAN Peru, an airline based in Peru
• LAN Ecuador, an airline based in Quito, Ecuador
• LAN Argentina, an airline based in Buenos Aires, Argentina
• LAN Dominicana, an airline based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
• LAN Colombia, an airline based in Bogotá, Colombia

Arts

• Lan (film), a 2009 Chinese film
• Lan Mandragoran, a fictional character from Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series
• Lan Hikari, protagonist of the Mega Man: Battle Network series of video games and animated television shows

People

• Lan (surname 蓝), a Chinese surname
• Lan (surname 兰), a different Chinese surname
• Lan (given name), including a list of people with the name
• David Lan, English playwright and theatre director
• Donald Lan, American politician

Other uses

• Local asymptotic normality, a fundamental property of regular models in statistics
• Longitude of the ascending node, one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in space
• Län, administrative division used in Sweden and until 2009 in Finland
• Łan, unit of measurement in Poland
• Lan (tribe), a tribe of Eastern Huns
• Lan, a Cantonese profanity
• Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, an American civil engineering company

See also

• LAN party, social happening on a local area network
• Lans (disambiguation)
• Ian