Lan

A LAN is a local area network, a computer network that interconnects within a limited area such as one or more buildings.

LAN or Lan may also refer to:

Science and technology

• 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
• Łan, unit of measurement in Poland

Places

• Lancashire (Chapman code), England
• Lancaster railway station (National Rail station code), England
• Capital Region International Airport (IATA airport code), Lansing, Michigan, US
• 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 Chinese surname
• Lan (given name), (including a list of people with the name)
• David Lan (born 1952), South African-born British playwright
• Donald Lan (born 1930), American politician

Other uses

• Län, administrative division used in Sweden and until 2009 in Finland
• Lan (tribe), a tribe of Eastern Huns
• Lan, a Cantonese profanity
• Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, an American civil engineering company
• Typhoon Lan, a tropical cyclone of the 2017 Pacific typhoon season

See also

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