Shan (disambiguation)

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Shan stands for:

  • Shan , an ethnic group, the largest national minority in Myanmar
  • Shan (language) , their mother tongue of the same name
  • Shan State one of the fourteen administrative units in Myanmar.
  • Federated Shan States , was an amalgamation of 33 formerly independent Shan principalities until 1959
  • Chin-Shan , a nuclear power plant in Taiwan
  • Shan County (单 县) of the prefecture-level city of Heze in the Chinese province of Shandong, see Shan (Heze)


Part of a person's name:

  • Liu Shan (207–271), from 223 to 263 as the second and last emperor of the Shu Han dynasty
  • Michael Fu Tie-shan , (* 1931; † 2007) was Bishop of Beijing of the Chinese State Church
  • Hung Shan-Chuan , (chin. 洪山川, * 1943) is Bishop of Chiayi (嘉義) in Taiwan
  • Shan Tao (205-283), Chinese scholar


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