Shan

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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
• Shanrong (山戎), term for "mountain barbarian" in Shanxi, Hubei in northern China
• Shan (surname), or 单 in Chinese, a Chinese surname
• Shan, a variant of the Welsh given name usually spelt Siân
• Darren Shan, children's author
• MC Shan, rapper
• Liu Shan, second emperor of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period.

Places

• Shan State of Myanmar
• 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)
• 山, shan, Chinese for "mountains" or "mountain range"
• Mount Shani or Gora Shan, a mountain in the Caucasus

Other uses

• Shan Foods, a brand of Pakistani cuisine spice mixes
• Insect from Shaggai, or Shan, a fictional alien race in the writings of Ramsey Campbell

See also

• Xiao (mythology), several creatures from Chinese mythology