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{{Wiktionary|tan|TAN}}
'''Tan''' or '''TAN''' may refer to:
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==Arts and entertainment==
* ''Tan'', an album by the Polish rock band [[Kult (band)|Kult]]
* [[TAN (group)]], South Korean boy band
* [[Tan (newspaper)|''Tan'' (newspaper)]], a newspaper in Turkey
* [[Tan (weekly newspaper)|''Tan'' (weekly newspaper)]], a newspaper in Kosovo

==Businesses and organisations==
* [[TAN Books]], a Catholic publishing company
* [[FC Rubin-TAN Kazan]], a Russian professional ice hockey club in Kazan in 1991-94
* [[Transportes Aéreos Nacionales]] or TAN Airlines, an airline based in Honduras
* [[Semitan]] or TAN, operates public transport in Nantes, France

==People==
* [[Tan (surname)]] (譚), a Chinese surname
* [[Chen (surname)]] (陳), a Chinese surname, pronounced "Tan" in Min Nan languages
* [[Laozi]], posthumous name "Tan" or "Dān" (聃), philosopher of ancient China
* [[Leborgne]], nicknamed Tan, a patient of Paul Broca's, on whose autopsy he identified Broca's area
* [[TAN (musician)]] (born 1990), Malaysian pop singer
* [[Tan Sağtürk]] (born 1969), Turkish ballet dancer
* [[Tan France]] (born 1983), British-American fashion designer

==Places==
===China===
* [[Tan (state)]], an ancient viscountcy in eastern Shandong Province, China
* [[Tai'an railway station (Shandong)]], China Railway pinyin code TAN

===Vietnam===
* [[Tân An, Bắc Giang]], a northeastern commune and village
* [[Tân An]], the capital city of Long An Province, Mekong Delta
* [[Tân An province]], a former province of South Vietnam

===Elsewhere===
* Tan Track or "The Tan", a running track in [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne#The Tan|Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne]], Australia
* [[Tanzania]] (IOC and FIFA trigram: TAN), a country
* [[Taunton Municipal Airport]] (IATA airport code: <code>TAN</code>), Massachusetts, US

==Science and technology==
* [[Tan (color)]], a pale shade of brown
* [[Tanning (leather)]], the process of making leather from hides
* [[Tan (function)]], a trigonometric function
* [[Ti-6Al-7Nb]], a titanium alloy containing aluminum and niobium
* [[Total acid number]] (TAN), the measure of a lubricant's or crude oil's acidity
* [[Transaction authentication number]] (TAN), in electronic banking
* [[Tumor-associated neutrophil]]

===Biology===
* [[Tan (goat pattern)]], a goat color pattern
* [[Tanbark]] or tan, the bark of certain species of tree
* [[Sun tanning]], the darkening of skin in response to ultraviolet light
** [[Sunless tanning]], the darkening of skin without ultraviolet light
* [[Tropical ataxic neuropathy]]

==Other uses==
* [[-tan]], a Japanese honorific
* [[Tahn]] (Armenian {{lang|hy|թան}} ''tʻan''), a yoghurt-based drink from the Middle East
* [[Tanfana]] or Tan, an ancient European goddess
* [[Tax Deduction and Collection Account Number]] (TAN), an Indian tax code

==See also==
* [[Black and Tans]], a nickname for British special constables during the Irish War of Independence
** [[Irish War of Independence]], sometimes called the "Black and Tan war" or "Tan war"
* [[Taan (disambiguation)]]
* [[Dan (disambiguation)]] (Tan is the older romanization of Dan in Chinese)
* [[Tannin (disambiguation)]]
* [[Tanning (disambiguation)]]
* [[TANS (disambiguation)]]
* [[Tanzhou (disambiguation)]], a Chinese placename "Tan District" or "Tan City"

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