BN

BN, Bn or bn may mean:

Organizations

* Barisan Nasional (also known as "National Front"), a political coalition in Malaysia
* Barnes & Noble, an American specialty retailer specializing in bookstore/coffeeshop venues
* Battalion, a type of military unit
* Brand New, an American rock band
* British Naturism, a clothes free organization in the United Kingdom
* Britten-Norman, a British manufacturer, based on the Isle of Wight, producing Islander and Trislander aircraft.
* Burlington Northern Railroad reporting mark|BN, a United States railroad that operated from 1970 to 1995
* a subsidiary of the Canadian Press, "Broadcast News", a news agency which provides news reports, film and audio clips to radio and television stations in Canada
* La Brugeoise et Nivelles SA., a Belgian railway rolling stock manufacturer, now part of Bombardier Transportation.

Airlines

"the following share the IATA airline code "BN"
* Braniff International Airways, a former American airline in service from 1928 to 1982
* Horizon Airlines (Australia), a former Australian airline, ending service in 2004

Geography and languages

* Bahrain (WMO country code: BN), an island nation in the Persian Gulf
* Bengali language (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code: bn), an Indo-Aryan language of East South Asia
* Benin (FIPS 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram country code: BN), a country in Western Africa
* Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, a pair of adjacent American cities
* BN postcode area centred on Brighton, England
* Brunei (ISO 3166 country code: BN), a country on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia

cience and technology

* Bachelor of Nursing, also known as "Bachelor of Science in Nursing", a four year academic degree in the science and principles of nursing
* 1000000000 (number), the number "billion" ('BN' or 'bn'), the integer 10⁹
** 1000000000000 (number), the integer 10¹², in traditional British usage
* Boron nitride (empirical chemical formula: BN), an inorganic binary chemical compound composed of boron and nitrogen
* the benzyl functional group ('Bn') in organic chemistry
* Dynkin diagram B_n

Other

* BN Biscuit, a type of biscuit with fillings.