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Keats (Mercurian crater)
Keats crater, an IAU-approved 115 km impact crater on Mercury at 69.9 degrees south, 154.5 degrees west, named for the English poet John Keats under the convention naming Mercurian craters after deceased artists and writers.
Keb' Mo'
Keb' Mo', born Kevin Roosevelt Moore in 1951, is an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter from Compton, California, known for an acoustic, Delta-rooted style and five Grammy Awards.
Keba Jeremiah
Keba Jeremiah is an Indian guitarist from Chennai, rooted in the gospel church scene, who has recorded for A. R. Rahman, Yuvan Shankar Raja, and Anirudh.
Kebab
Kebab (Persian kabāb, grilled meat): family of skewered, grilled, or spit-roasted meat dishes from Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and South Asian cuisines, including shish, adana, and döner; the Berlin döner sandwich dates to 1972.
Kebab Connection
Kebab Connection: 2004 German culture-clash comedy directed by Anno Saul, written with Fatih Akin, about Ibo, a Hamburg Turk dreaming of the first German kung-fu film; released 21 April 2005, distinct from kebab restaurants of the same name.
Kebabangan Oil and Gas Field
Kebabangan is an offshore gas and oil field in the South China Sea, about 94 km northwest of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, producing gas since 2014.
Keban hydroelectric plant
The Keban hydroelectric plant (Keban Barajı ve Hidroelektrik Santrali) is a 1,330 MW dam on the Euphrates River in Turkey, completed in 1974 and once the country's largest.
Kebaya
Kebaya: front-opening embroidered Southeast Asian blouse fastened with kerongsang brooches and worn with a sarong; jointly inscribed by Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand on UNESCO's Representative List in December 2024.
Kebbi Kingdom
Kebbi, also written Kabi, was a Hausa kingdom founded in 1515 by Muhammadu Kanta after he broke with the Songhai Empire, surviving as an independent military power for nearly three centuries.
Kebbi State
Kebbi State, northwestern Nigeria, capital Birnin Kebbi, created 27 August 1991 from Sokoto State; 21 LGAs, agriculture-based economy, Argungu Fishing Festival, high poverty and fertility rates.
Kebede Michael
Kebede Michael was an Ethiopian writer of Amharic poetry, plays, essays, and translations who won the first Haile Selassie I Prize in Amharic Literature in 1964.
Kebek
Kebek, also spelled Kepek or Kebek Khan, was khan of the Chagatai Khanate from about 1318 to 1326, remembered for administrative and monetary reforms that unified the state's silver coinage.
Kebiishi-chō
Kebiishi-chō (検非違使庁) was the police, judicial, and prosecutorial agency of Heian-kyō (Kyoto), created in the early ninth century outside the ritsuryō system and absorbed by the shogunate's samurai-dokoro in the Muromachi period.
Kebineng
Kebineng (轲比能) was a Xianbei chieftain of the Three Kingdoms period who united the steppe tribes along Wei's northern frontier and was killed by a Wei assassin.
Kebineng's Rebellion
Kebineng's Rebellion (轲比能之乱) was the rise of the Xianbei chieftain Kebineng into a steppe confederation that raided Cao Wei's northern frontier until Wang Xiong had him assassinated in 235, after which his tribes scattered.
KeBlack
KeBlack is the stage name of Cédric Mateta Nkomi, a French rapper and singer of Congolese origin who broke through in 2016 with the diamond hit 'Bazardée'.
Kebnekaise
Kebnekaise (Giebnegáisi), Sweden's highest mountain in Kiruna Municipality, Lapland. Two summits: bare-rock North Peak 2,096.8 m, highest point since 2019; glaciated South Peak measured 2,088.3 m in 2026.
Kebra Nagast
Kebra Nagast (Ge'ez, "Glory of the Kings"), Ethiopian national epic in Ge'ez prose, fourteenth-century redaction; tells of Makeda, Solomon, Menelik, and the Ark at Aksum; charter of the Solomonic dynasty.
Kebumen UNESCO Global Geopark
Kebumen UNESCO Global Geopark (Geopark Kebumen, theme "The Glowing Mother Earth of Java") in Kebumen Regency, Central Java, Indonesia; a 2018 national geopark renamed 2023 and granted UNESCO status in 2025, known for Cretaceous subduction evidence at Karangsambung and Karangbolong karst.
Kebun Binatang Bandung
Kebun Binatang Bandung, also known as Bandung Zoo or Bandung Zoological Garden, is a 13.5-hectare zoo in Bandung, Indonesia, completed in 1933 and closed to the public since August 2025.
Kecak
Kecak, also called the Ramayana Monkey Chant, is a Balinese dance-drama in which 50 or more seated men chant "cak" as living accompaniment for Ramayana episodes.
Keçecizade Mehmed Fuad Pasha
Keçecizade Mehmed Fuad Pasha (فؤاد پاشا; 1815–1869) was an Ottoman statesman and chief architect of the Tanzimat reforms, best known for restoring order in Mount Lebanon and Damascus in 1860.
Kech District
Kech District, headquartered at Turbat in southwestern Balochistan, Pakistan, was created on 1 July 1977 and renamed from Turbat in 1995; 22,539 sq km, 1,060,931 people (2023 census), Kech River valley, Gichki history, Zikri shrine Koh-e-Murad.
Kecha (household levies)
Kecha (科差) was the Yuan dynasty's household tax system for northern China, consisting of a silk levy and a silver levy, with a salary-scrip charge added later.
Kechang Xie (谢克昌)
Kechang Xie (谢克昌), born 1946 in Shanxi, is a Chinese coal chemical engineering expert, a Chinese Academy of Engineering academician elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Kechi Beg phase
The Kechi Beg phase is a pre-Harappan ceramic phase of the Quetta valley in Balochistan, Pakistan, dated roughly 3800–3200 BC and defined by Kechi Beg ware.
Kechi Okwuchi
Kechi Okwuchi, Nigerian-born American singer, speaker, and author of More Than My Scars; one of two survivors of the 2005 Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crash; two-time America's Got Talent finalist (2017, 2019).
Kechimovskoye Oil and Gas Field
The Kechimovskoye oil field is an oil field in the central West Siberian plain in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, discovered in 1985, developed from 1995, and operated by LUKOIL.
Kecia Lewis
Kecia Lewis (also Kecia Lewis-Evans), born 1965, Bronx; American Broadway actress and Atlantic Acting School teacher. Broadway debut at 18 in Dreamgirls; won the 2024 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical as Miss Liza Jane in Hell's Kitchen.
Keçiören
Keçiören (Kecioren) is a metropolitan district of northern Ankara, Turkey; formerly Kiçiviran, a 1936 township, Altındağ suburb, and independent district since 1983, with about 932,000 residents and Ankara's highest district density.