Van

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A Van is a road vehicle used for transporting goods or groups of people.

Van may also refer to:

Vehicles

• Goods van, an enclosed, railway, freight wagon
• Brake van or guard's van, a railway vehicle used for crew accommodation and administration in a goods train

Abbreviations

• Value-added network, as used in Electronic Data Interchange
• Van Speelautomaten Branche-Organisatie, the Dutch branch of EUROMAT
• Vehicle Area Network, an electronic communications network that interconnects components inside vehicles
• VAN method, an experimental earthquake prediction method
• The country code for Vanuatu
• Vancomycin, an antibiotic
• Voluntary Arts Network, the UK and Republic of Ireland development agency for the voluntary arts and crafts
• Voter Activation Network, a voter database used by the United States Democratic Party
• Vanguard, the forward element of an advancing military tactical formation

Places

In Turkey

• Van, Turkey
• Van Province
• Lake Van

In Britain

• Van, Caerphilly
• Van, Llanidloes

In the USA

• Van, Texas
• Van, West Virginia
• Van, Arkansas
• Van, Kentucky
• Van, Michigan
• Van, Missouri
• Van, Ohio
• Van, Oregon
• Van, Pennsylvania
• Van, Utah
• Van, West Virginia
• Van, Virginia

People

Real people

• Van Cliburn, a pianist
• Van Hansis, an actor
• Van Heflin, an actor
• Van Johnson, an actor
• Van Jones, former Green Jobs Advisor to the Obama administration
• Van Morrison (born 1945), an Irish musician
• Van Nelson (born 1945), an American long-distance runner
• Van Tiffin, former Alabama Crimson Tide placekicker
• Troy Van Leeuwen, an American multi-instrumentalist

Fictional characters

• Van (Gun X Sword), main characters of the Japanese anime Gun X Sword
• Van (Chrono Cross), a character from the PlayStation game Chrono Cross
• Van Slazar de Fanel, a character from the Japanese anime The Vision of Escaflowne
• Van, a character in the 2006 animated Pixar film, Cars (film)

• Van Flyheight (more correctly romanised as Freiheit in the Japanese version), a character from the anime Zoids

• Van Wilder, the protagonist of the 2002 comedy film "National Lampoon's Van Wilder"
• Van Montgomery, a fictional character on Reba, a TV series
• Van Demanievitch Veen, the main character of Vladimir Nabokov's Ada or Ardor

Other uses

• Van (music), a Swedish musical group active in the late 1990s
• Los Van Van, a Cuban musical group
• Turkish Van, a breed of cat
• Van Halen, A rock band
• Van or Vana, meaning forest in Sanskrit, Hindi and many Indian languages, giving rise to terms like Vana Parva (the Episode of Forest) in the epic Ramayana

See also

• Van Pelt
• Vanir, name of one of the two groups of gods in Norse mythology
• Vans, a brand of shoes
• "Vans" (song), by the rap group The Pack
• "Van" is a common element of last names, especially in Dutch (e.g., Johannes van der Waals). See Tussenvoegsel or surname prefix

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