Van (disambiguation)
Appearance
A van is a road vehicle.
Van, VAN and other capitalizations may refer to:
People and fictional characters[edit]
- van (Dutch), a common prefix in Dutch language surnames, including a list of people with "van" in their surname
- Van (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or nickname
- Van (surname), including a list of people
Places[edit]
Canada[edit]
- Vancouver, largest city in British Columbia
Iran[edit]
- Van, Iran a village
Turkey[edit]
- Lake Van, a lake in eastern Turkey
- Kingdom of Van, an Iron Age civilization centered on Lake Van (860–590 BC)
- Van, Turkey, a city on the east shore of Lake Van
- 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[edit]
- Van, Caerphilly, a suburb east of Caerphilly, Wales
- Van, Llanidloes, a hamlet in Wales
United States[edit]
- Van, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
- Van, Missouri, an unincorporated community
- Van, Oregon, an unincorporated community
- Van, Texas, a city
- Van, Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Van, West Virginia, a census-designated place
Vanuatu[edit]
- Vanuatu's IOC and FIFA country code
Organizations[edit]
- VAN Magazine, classical music magazine
- Vereniging Automatenhandel Nederland (VAN), the Dutch branch of EUROMAT
- Voluntary Arts Network, UK and Republic of Ireland development agency
- NGP VAN, a voter database and web hosting service provider
- Van's Aircraft, founded by Richard Van Grunsen
- FC Van, an Armenian football club based in Charentsavan
- FC Van Yerevan, a defunct Armenian football club from the capital Yerevan, founded in 1990
Transportation[edit]
- 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
- Mitsubishi Van, a cargo van marketed in the United States
Other uses[edit]
- 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
- Vehicle Area Network, an intra-vehicle computer bus
- Van, Vanguard (military tactics)
- Van (band), Swedish musical group
- Van cat, a cat from the Lake Van region
- VAN method, a controversial method of earthquake prediction
See also[edit]
Search for "van" on Wikipedia.