Fen (disambiguation)
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The term fen or the acronym FEN can refer to:
- A type of wetland, similar to a marsh or bog.
- An invented alternate plural of fan, used by members of science fiction fandom to distinguish themselves from "fans" such as football fans, by analogy to "men" being the plural of "man", "women"/"woman", etc.
- Forsyth-Edwards Notation for chess positions.
- Far East Network, a former name for those AFN radio and television stations in Japan, Korea, and other parts of East Asia. It was also the name of a magazine for Japanese fans of the Far East Network.
- Fen, a unit of Chinese money. The renminbi is the legal tender in the mainland of the People's Republic of China. The base unit of the renminbi is the yuan. One yuan is divided into 10 jiao (角). One jiao is divided into 10 fen (分). The largest denomination of the renminbi is the 100 yuan note. The smallest is the 1 fen coin or note.
- The Fens, a low-lying geographical region of eastern England. It is fairly closely defined by geography but is not an administrative region, though there is a much smaller administrative district within The Fens, in Cambridgeshire, called Fenland District.
- Fen Complex, Norway, an area of unusual igneous rocks.
