Van (disambiguation)
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A van is a road vehicle.
Van, VAN and other capitalizations may refer to:
People and fictional characters
- van (Dutch), the most widely used preposition in Dutch surnames
- Van (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or nickname
- Van (surname), a list of people
Places
Iran
- Van, Iran a village in Iran
Turkey
- Lake Van, a lake in eastern Turkey
- Kingdom of Van, Iron Age civilization centered on Lake Van (860–590 BC)
- Van, Turkey, major city the east shore of Lake Van since ancient times
- Van Province, a modern Turkish province
- Van (electoral district), the electoral district of the province
- Eyalet of Van, the province during the Ottoman Empire (1548–1864)
- Van Vilayet, the province during the later Ottoman period (1875–1922)
United Kingdom
- Van, Caerphilly, a suburb east of Caerphilly, Wales
- Van, Llanidloes, a hamlet in Wales
* United States
Organizations
- Vehicle Area Network, intra-vehicle network
- Vereniging Automatenhandel Nederland (VAN), the Dutch branch of EUROMAT
- Voluntary Arts Network, UK & Republic of Ireland development agency
- NGP VAN, a voter database and web hosting service provider
Transportation
- van, British English for a railway covered goods wagon
- Van Railway, former railway between Van and Caersws, Wales
- VAN, the IATA code for Van Ferit Melen Airport, Turkey
Other uses
- van, the ISO 639 code for the Valman language of Papua New Guinea
- Value-added network (VAN), a service intermediary between businesses for sharing data
- Van, Vanguard (military tactics)
- Van (band), Swedish musical group
- Van cat, a cat from the Lake Van region
- VAN method, experiment in earthquake detection
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