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'''Van''' can mean:

* [[van (road vehicle)]]
* [[van (rail vehicle)]], also called a boxcar
* [[Turkish Van]] cat
* shortened form of [[vanguard]]
* the [[VAN method]] for earthquake prediction

'''Van''' is also the name of several places:

In [[Turkey]]:
* [[Van, Turkey|Van]], town
* [[Van Province|Van]], [[provinces of Turkey|province]]
* [[Lake Van]]

In the [[United Kingdom]]:
* [[Van, Caerphilly]]

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]]

"van" is also a common [[Dutch language|Dutch]] word meaning "of" or "from", e.g. as in [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] or [[George Vancouver]], equivalent to the [[German language|German]] "[[von]]". It is always written in lower case (except at the beginning of a sentence), except for some American names (e.g. [[Dick Van Dyke]], [[Martin Van Buren]]) or in the case where the word is not of Dutch origin, as in [[Vietnam]]ese names (e.g. [[Duong Van Minh]], [[Nguyen Van Thieu]]).

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