The provincial capital is Nan-ch'ang Fu, on the Kan Kiang, about 35 m.
Kéna, a short, collateral form of Kena'an or Kan`an_ The form Kan`an is favoured by the Egyptian usage.
The largest river is the Kan Kiang, which rises in the mountains in the south of the province and flows north-east to the Po-yang Lake.
The collective name for the corps was celeres (" the swift," or possibly from Kan s, "a riding horse"); Livy, however, restricts the term to a special body-guard of ' Romulus.
The four leading Maya signs called kan, muluc, ix, cauac corresponded in their position to the four Aztec signs rabbit, reed, flint, house, but the meanings of the Maya signs are, unlike the Aztec, very obscure.
