Shan
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(shän, shăn) 
n., pl., Shan, or Shans.
Of or relating to the Shan or their language or culture.
n., pl., Shan, or Shans.
- A member of any of a group of tribes inhabiting the hills and plateaus of northeast Myanmar (Burma) and adjacent parts of China, Laos, and Thailand.
- The Tai language of the Shan.
Of or relating to the Shan or their language or culture.
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Any member of a Southeast Asian people who live primarily in eastern and northwestern Myanmar (Burma) and also in Yunnan province, China. The Shan are the largest minority group in Myanmar, numbering more than four million. They live mainly in the valleys and plains on the Shan Plateau, where they grow rice or practice shifting agriculture. They are Theravada Buddhists and have their own written language and literature. They dominated much of Myanmar from the 13th to the 16th century; since the 1970s they have been at odds with the national government over the issue of local autonomy. Tai.
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Shan may refer to:
People
- The Shan people, Southeast Asian ethnic group inhabiting Myanmar
- The Shan language
- Dai people, also known as Shan, ethnic group in China
- Shan (surname), or 单 in Chinese, a Chinese surname
- Darren Shan, children's author
- MC Shan, rapper
Places
- Shaanxi, abbreviated as Shan (陕), province of the People's Republic of China
- Shan County, Shandong, county in Shandong, China
- Shan County, Henan, in Sanmenxia, China
- Shantou, or Shan (汕), a city in Guangdong, China
- Shan (剡), river name in Zhejiang Province of PRC
- Shan (鄯), name for a region in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
- Shan (鄯), the name of ancient Western Regions (西域)
- Gora Shan, a mountain in the Caucasus
Other uses
- Shan Foods, a brand of Pakistani cuisine spice mixes
- 山, the Chinese for "mountain"
- Insect from Shaggai, or Shan, a fictional alien race in the writings of Ramsey Campbell
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