Sanjan

Sanjan

Sanjan may refer to:

*Sanjan (Khorasan), a historic city in present-day Turkmenistan
*Sanjan (Gujarat), a town in Gujarat named by Zoroastrian immigrants after the Sanjan in Khorasan
*Sangan (Pakistan), a town in Balochistan province of Pakistan
*Samur Sanjan, a village in Iran's Kordestan province
*Sangan, AfghanistanSanjan is also:
* the Sanskrit word for 'Creator', and thus the stock epithet of Brahma
* the Persian name for Xinjiang, China, which is part of historical Khorasan
* an area in the Loliondo Game Controlled Area in the eastern Serengeti in Tanzania


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