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Kaen Makrut Botanical Garden
Kaen Makrut Botanical Garden (สวนพฤกษชาติแก่นมะกรูด), Ban Rai District, Uthai Thani, Thailand: highland garden at about 600 m, nicknamed coldest in central Siam, hosting an annual winter tulip and lily flower festival with the local Karen community.
Kaeng Khoi 2 power station
Kaeng Khoi 2 power station, also known as Kaeng Khoi II or KK2, is a natural gas-fired combined cycle plant in Saraburi, Thailand, opened in 2007.
KAEPacity study
KAEPacity study (NCT07440329): observational, mixed-methods document analysis of German hospital emergency and disaster plans (KAEP), 319 hospitals, led by Lea Kölsch with University Hospital Heidelberg, started March 2026, no clinical interventions.
Kaeser Kompressoren
Kaeser Kompressoren is a German family-owned manufacturer of compressors, blowers, and compressed air systems, founded in Coburg in 1919 and today employing about 8,000 people in over 140 countries.
Kaeson Youth Park Pleasure Ground
Kaeson Youth Park Pleasure Ground (개선청년공원) is an amusement park in Pyongyang, North Korea, opened in 1984 near the Arch of Triumph and rebuilt in 2010 with imported rides.
Kaesong (개성)
Kaesong (개성), historically called Gaegyeong, is a city in southern North Korea just north of the DMZ that served as the Goryeo dynasty's capital for 475 years and is known for its UNESCO-listed monuments.
Kaesong Industrial Region (개성공업지구)
Kaesong Industrial Region (개성공업지구), or Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC), was a joint inter-Korean special economic zone in Kaesong, North Korea, opened in 2004, hosting over 120 South Korean firms employing about 55,000 North Korean workers until South Korea shut it down in February 2016.
Kaetlyn Osmond
Kaetlyn Osmond (born 1995, Marystown, NL) is a Canadian figure skater, 2018 World champion, 2018 Olympic team gold and singles bronze medalist, 2014 team silver, retired 2019.
Kaf (花譜) (singer)
Kaf (花譜, KAF) is a Japanese virtual singer of KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO who debuted October 18, 2018 at age 14 via an avatar without revealing her face; known for Budokan and Yoyogi arena solo lives, the Kumikyoku collaboration series, the KAIKA persona, and the KAFU voicebank built from her voice.
Kafa Biosphere Reserve
Kafa Biosphere Reserve: UNESCO MAB site in Kafa Zone, southwestern Ethiopia, designated June 2010 as Ethiopia's first biosphere reserve; wild Coffea arabica gene pool in Afromontane forests.
Kafala system
The kafala system, also known as kefala, is a labor sponsorship arrangement tying migrant workers' residency and employment to one sponsor across the Gulf states, Jordan, and Lebanon.
Kafan
Kafan (क़फ़न, "The Shroud") is a 1935 short story by Munshi Premchand, his last completed one, in which a poor father and son drink away a burial shroud's money.
Kafas
Kafas (क़फ़स), also spelled Qafas, is a 2023 Hindi SonyLIV drama thriller, a six-episode adaptation of the British miniseries Dark Money, directed by Sahil Sangha, starring Sharman Joshi and Mona Singh as parents paid to stay silent about their son's abuse.
KAFD metro station (محطة قطار كافد)
KAFD metro station (محطة قطار كافد) is an elevated interchange station on the Riyadh Metro, serving Lines 1, 4, and 6 in the King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh.
Kaffeklubben Island
Kaffeklubben Island, officially Inuit Qeqertaat, is a small moraine island off northern Greenland at 83°39′54″N, the world's northernmost land point, 713.5 km from the North Pole; rival islets such as Oodaaq proved to be stranded icebergs.
Kaffir (racial term)
Kaffir is South Africa's most severe anti-black racial slur, derived from Arabic kāfir (infidel), adopted by Dutch settlers in the 17th century, now hate speech under PEPUDA and crimen injuria, euphemized as the K-word.
Kaffir lime
Kaffir lime (Citrus hystrix DC.), also called makrut lime, Thai lime, or Mauritius papeda, is a thorny Southeast Asian citrus tree grown for aromatic double leaves used in Thai and other cuisines; its bumpy, bitter fruit yields essential oil rich in β-pinene and citronellal.
Kafir (كَافِر)
Kafir (كَافِر), plural kuffar, is an Arabic term in Islamic theology for a person who disbelieves in or rejects God and the truth of Islam.
Kafiristan
Kafiristan, "Land of the Infidels," was the pre-1896 name of the Hindu Kush region of northeastern Afghanistan, renamed Nuristan after Amir Abd-al-Rahman's forced Islamization; its Kalash kin in Chitral survive.
Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail)
Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail) is a 5-star Lightning Nihility character, Stellaron Hunter, and DoT specialist who detonates damage-over-time effects; reworked in version 3.4 with a 100% ATK buff for high Effect Hit Rate allies.
Kafka Connect
Kafka Connect is Apache Kafka's open-source framework for streaming data between Kafka and external systems via source and sink connectors, running workers in standalone or distributed modes with offsets, configs, and status stored in Kafka topics.
Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ)
Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka) is Haruki Murakami's 2002 two-volume novel, translated by Philip Gabriel in 2005, following runaway Kafka Tamura and cat-speaking Nakata in parallel quests.
Kafka Streams
Kafka Streams, the Apache Kafka Streams API, is a Java/Scala client library for stream processing with input and output in Kafka topics, no separate processing cluster, local RocksDB state stores backed by changelog topics, and exactly_once_v2 processing guarantees.
Kafka: The Definitive Guide
Kafka: The Definitive Guide is O'Reilly's practitioner book on Apache Kafka: first edition 2017 by Narkhede, Shapira, and Palino; second edition November 2021 by Shapira, Palino, Sivaram, and Petty.
Kafnai
Kafnai was an exilarch, head of the Jewish community in Babylonia, in the second half of the 6th century; his son and successor Haninai was executed in 590-591.
Kafr 'Inan
Kafr 'Inan, also known as Kefar Hananya, was a Palestinian Arab village in the Upper Galilee, southwest of Safed, whose site is the ancient talmudic village of potters Kefar Ḥananyah.
Kafr ash Shaykh
Kafr ash Shaykh (كفر الشيخ, Kafr El-Sheikh), capital of Egypt's Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate in the Nile Delta, about 130 km from Cairo; rice, sugar beet, and fish production center near Lake Burullus and ancient Buto.
Kafr Bir'im
Kafr Bir'im, also Kfar Bar'am, is an archaeological site in Upper Galilee, 11 km northwest of Safed, preserving an ancient Jewish village and two synagogues; a Maronite village there was depopulated in 1948.
Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate
Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate (محافظة كفر الشيخ), Egypt's northernmost Nile Delta governorate; capital Kafr el-Sheikh city; 3.47 thousand km², 10 centers, rice and cotton farming, one third of Egypt's fish output.
Kafr Hassan Dawood
Kafr Hassan Dawood is an archaeological site in the eastern Nile Delta of Egypt, best known for a large Predynastic to Early Dynastic cemetery of over 1000 graves.