Van (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Vehicles 2 Abbreviations 3 Places 4 People 5 miscellaneous

Van' or van can mean:-

[edit] Vehicles

• A van is a road vehicle used for transporting goods or groups of people.
• A boxcar rail vehicle
• A caboose, the last rail vehicle in a train

[edit] Abbreviations

As a three-letter acronym or abbreviation:

• Value-added network, as used in Electronic Data Interchange
• Vehicle Area Network, a fieldbus similar to CAN. As the latter, it is used in automotives
• The VAN method for earthquake prediction
• The country code for Vanuatu

[edit] Places

In Turkey:

• Van, Turkey, the city
• Van Province, the capitol of which is Van
• Lake Van, borders the Van Province

In Britain:

• Van, Caerphilly
• Van, Llanidloes

In the United States:

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

[edit] People

• "van" is Dutch for "of" and "from", and thus occurs at the beginning of many Dutch surnames.
• Van is a common Vietnamese surname

Real people:

• Van Morrison, an Irish musician
• See List of people by name: Van A-Van C, Van D, Van E-Van N, Van O-Van Z

Fictional characters:

• Van (Chrono Cross) → Van at the List of Chrono Cross characters, whose lives in the two worlds are quite different
• Van Slanzar de Fanel, The Vision of Escaflowne
• Van Pelt Last name of the comic characters Lucy, Linus and Rerun from the Peanuts

[edit] miscellaneous

• Shortened form of vanguard
• Van (music), a Swedish musical group active in the late 1990s
• Los Van Van, a Cuban musical group
• Van (Dutch) is a Dutch preposition
• A kind of Norse deity, plural Vanir
• Turkish Van, a breed of cat