Canaan (disambiguation)
Canaan (Hebrew: כנען) (Arabic: كنعان) was the ancient Biblical region of the Levant. It is also a Semitic personal name or surname used by Arabic and Hebrew-speaking people.
Canaan may also refer to:
Places
- Canada
- Canaan No. 225, Saskatchewan
- Canaan, New Brunswick
- Canaan River, New Brunswick
- Canaan, Kings County, Nova Scotia
- Canaan, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia
- Canaan, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
- United States
- Canaan, California
- Canaan, Connecticut
- Canaan, Indiana
- Canaan, Maine
- Canaan, New Hampshire
- Canaan, New York
- Canaan, Vermont
- Canaan, West Virginia
- Canaan Township, Ohio
- Canaan Valley, West Virginia
- New Canaan, Connecticut
- North Canaan, Connecticut
- South Canaan, Pennsylvania
- West Indies
- Canaan, Trinidad
- Canaan, Tobago
- Canaan, United States Virgin Islands
People
- Tawfiq Canaan (1882–1964), Palestinian physician and researcher of popular heritage
- Isaiah Canaan (b. 1991), American basketball player
- Islam Cana'an (b. 1983), Palestinian-Israeli footballer
- K'naan (b. 1978), Canadian-Somalian hip-hop artist
- Canaan Banana (1936–2003), first President of Zimbabwe
- Lydia Canaan, Lebanese singer-songwriter, humanitarian, and activist
- Tony Kanaan (b. 1974), Brazilian race car driver
Video games
- Canaan Online, a free-to-play browser MMORPG
- Canaan, a location in Final Fantasy III, a role-playing video game
- Canaan, a character in the Xenosaga video game series
- New Canaan, a Mormon town in the Fallout video game series
- The Mystical Land of Canaan, a location of great power and home of the Summon Spirit Origin in Tales of Xillia 2.
Other uses
- Canaan, son of Ham and grandson of Noah in the Hebrew Bible
- Canaan Dog, the national dog breed of Israel
- Canaan Records, a Christian record label
- "Land of Canaan", a song on Indigo Girls' eponymous 1989 album
- Land of Canaan, a forthcoming horror film
- The Settlers of Canaan, a multiplayer board game
- Canaan, a 2009 action/adventure anime based on the 428: Fūsa Sareta Shibuya de video game
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