CN

Corporation created by the Canadian government in 1918 to operate a number of nationalized railroads (including the old Grand Trunk lines, Intercolonial Railway, National Transcontinental Railway, and Canadian Northern Railway) as one of Canada's two transcontinental railroad systems. Its passenger services were taken over by VIA Rail Canada in 1978, and the company was privatized in 1995. The Canadian National Railway stretches across Canada from Nova Scotia to Vancouver. It bought the Illinois Central Corp. in 1999, thus acquiring a railroad network that links Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

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However, CN, cN, Cn or cn may refer to:

Places

• People's Republic of China, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
• Comoros, FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram
• CN Tower, Toronto
• CN Centre - an arena in Prince George, British Columbia
• Province of Cuneo (Italy)

Companies

• Canadian National Railway
• Cartoon Network (An American cable cartoon television)
• Canadian Northern Railway
• China Netcom
• Westward Airways' IATA code
• Islands Nationair' IATA code

Organizations/Organisations

• Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee
• Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang), a centre-right political party in the Republic of China on Taiwan.
• Commonwealth of Nations

People/Positions

• Chief of Navy (Australia)
• Chuck Norris

Other

• Calcineurin (CN)
• Cyanide (the chemical formula CN)
• CN gas, Chloroacetophenone
• Cartoon Network
• Collegiate Network
• Combined Nomenclature(CN), the EU’s coding system for classifying products for customs and statistical purposes. This classification is based on the Harmonized System (HS).
• Computational neuroethology
• Cranial nerves
• Credit note
• Curve number used in hydrology
• Gnaeus (Cn.) a Roman Praenomen
• One of Jacobi's elliptic functions
• Common Name, an attribute of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol protocol family
• Correspondent Node, part of the definitions for the Mobile IP protocols
• C_n, a Dynkin diagram
• Cyber Nations An MMO Nation Simulation Game
• VIA CN processor
• Copy number of a gene or genetic variation
• Chaotic Neutral, an alignment in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game