Canaan (disambiguation)

Canaan (Hebrew: כנען) (Arabic: كنعان) was the ancient 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

• Rural Municipality of 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, Connecticut, a town
• Canaan (CDP), Connecticut, a village in the town of North Canaan
• Canaan, Indiana
• Canaan, Maine
• Canaan, Mississippi
• Canaan, New Hampshire, a New England town
  • Canaan (CDP), New Hampshire, the main village in the town
• Canaan, New York
• Canaan, Pennsylvania
• Canaan, Vermont, a New England town
  • Canaan (CDP), Vermont, a village in the town
• Canaan, West Virginia
• Canaan Township, Athens County, Ohio
• Canaan Township, Madison County, Ohio
• Canaan Township, Morrow County, Ohio
• Canaan Township, Wayne County, Ohio
• Canaan Valley, West Virginia
• New Canaan, Connecticut
• North Canaan, Connecticut
  • Canaan (village), Connecticut
• South Canaan Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania
• Canaan Township (disambiguation)

West Indies

• Canaan, Trinidad, a town in Trinidad and Tobago
• Canaan, Tobago
• Canaan, United States Virgin Islands

Other places

• Canaan, Haiti
• Colinas de Canaan, a neighborhood in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

People and biblical figures

• Tawfiq Canaan (1882–1964), Palestinian physician and researcher of popular heritage
• Isaiah Canaan (born 1991), American basketball player
• Islam Cana'an (born 1983), Palestinian-Israeli footballer
• Canaan Banana (1936–2003), first president of Zimbabwe
• Canaan (son of Ham), son of Ham and grandson of Noah in the Old Testament

Video games

• Canaan, a location in Final Fantasy III, a role-playing video game
• The Mystical Land of Canaan, a location in Tales of Xillia 2
• Canaan, the biblical setting for The Settlers of Canaan, a multiplayer board game
• Canaan, a character in the Xenosaga video game series

Other uses

• Canaan (TV series), a 2009 action/adventure anime based on the 428: Shibuya Scramble video game
• Canaan Creative, a computer hardware manufacturer making bitcoin miners
• Canaan Dog, the national dog breed of Israel
• Canaan Records, a Christian record label

See also

• Canaanism, a Jewish cultural and ideological movement founded in 1939
• All pages with titles beginning with Canaan
• Cannan, a surname of Manx origin
• K'naan, stage name of Canadian-Somalian hip-hop artist Keinan Abdi Warsame (born 1978)
• Kanaan, a surname
• Kanan (disambiguation)