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Khanmigo
Khanmigo is an AI tutor and teacher assistant built by Khan Academy on OpenAI's large language models, first piloted in March 2023 as a GPT-4-powered tutor for students.
Khanqah of al-Zahir Baybars
The Khanqah of al-Zahir Baybars (خانقاه الظاهرية) was a state-sponsored Sufi hospice in Cairo, named for the Mamluk sultan Baybars, who reigned from 1260 to 1277.
Khans of Bollywood
Khans of Bollywood: the Three Khans, Shah Rukh, Salman and Aamir Khan, Muslim superstars all born in 1965 who dominated Hindi cinema from the 1990s; Saif Ali Khan is sometimes named a fourth Khan.
Khansa (Mercurian crater)
Khansa is a 113-km-wide impact crater on Mercury at 58.95 degrees south, 51.94 degrees west, named for the Arab poet Al-Khansa and approved by the IAU in 1976.
Khantayskoye
Khantayskoye (Хантайское озеро, Kutaramo) is a deep freshwater lake on the southern Taimyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia: 822 km², 420 m maximum depth, third deepest in Russia, part of the Ust-Khantayskoye Reservoir.
Khantrast
Khantrast (Anthony Zhang, born 1998) is a Chinese-American rapper from Brooklyn, New York, formerly Starrk Khantrast. Known for anime freestyles like Naruto Bluebird Freestyle, the drill hit Landed in Brooklyn, and albums Chinatowns Favorite (2025) and Poster Child (2026).
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Ханты-Мансийский автономный округ — Югра)
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra (Ханты-Мансийский автономный округ — Югра), a Russian federal subject in western Siberia within Tyumen Oblast; Russia's largest oil producer at about 40% of national output, homeland of the Khanty and Mansi peoples.
Khāṇu Koṇḍañña
Khāṇu Koṇḍañña, also known as Koṇḍañña, was a brahmin who was the first of the five ascetics to understand the Buddha's Dhamma and the first to be ordained as an arahant.
Khanyisa Jaceni
Khanyisa Jaceni, who performs as Khanyisa, is a South African amapiano singer-songwriter from Embalenhle, Mpumalanga, who rose from viral TikTok covers to hits like 'Bheka Mina Ngedwa'.
Khanzaadi
Khanzaadi, born Firoza Khan, is an Indian rapper, singer, and songwriter from Assam, known for MTV Hustle 2.0 in 2022 and Bigg Boss 17 in 2023.
Khanzad
Khanzad (خانزاد) was a Kurdish woman who ruled the Soran Emirate for seven years after her brother's murder, remembered as a builder and military commander.
Khao Kheow Open Zoo
Khao Kheow Open Zoo (สวนสัตว์เปิดเขาเขียว), Thailand's first open-concept zoo, opened 1 June 1978 in Chonburi; ZPOT-run, ~2,000 acres, 2,000+ animals, home of viral pygmy hippo Moo Deng.
Khao Lak (เขาหลัก)
Khao Lak (เขาหลัก), a beach-resort strip in Takua Pa District, Phang Nga Province, Thailand, near Khao Lak–Lam Ru National Park; worst hit by the 2004 tsunami, now a quiet dive gateway to the Similan and Surin Islands.
Khao Manee
The Khao Manee (เขามณี), also called the Khao Plort or diamond eye cat, is a rare natural cat breed from Thailand, pure white with vivid blue, green, yellow, or odd eyes.
Khao Phing Kan (เขาพิงกัน)
Khao Phing Kan (เขาพิงกัน), also called James Bond Island, is a twin limestone island in Phang Nga Bay, Thailand, beside the 20-metre sea stack Ko Tapu, made famous by the 1974 film The Man with the Golden Gun.
Khao soi (ข้าวซอย)
Khao soi (ข้าวซอย) is Northern Thailand's coconut curry egg noodle soup, the signature dish of Chiang Mai, brought by Yunnanese Muslim caravan traders via Burma, related to ohn no khao swe, ranked TasteAtlas #1 soup in 2022.
Khao Sok National Park (อุทยานแห่งชาติเขาสก)
Khao Sok National Park (อุทยานแห่งชาติเขาสก), Thailand's 22nd national park, established 22 December 1980 in Surat Thani Province, covers about 739 km² of rainforest and limestone karst, with Cheow Lan Lake created by the 1987 Ratchaprapha Dam.
Khao Yai National Park (อุทยานแห่งชาติเขาใหญ่)
Khao Yai National Park (อุทยานแห่งชาติเขาใหญ่) is Thailand's first national park, established in 1962, covering 2,166 km² across four provinces about 200 km from Bangkok and inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.
Khaosan Road (ถนนข้าวสาร)
Khaosan Road (ถนนข้าวสาร, Thanon Khao San) is a 400-metre street in Banglamphu, Bangkok, laid out in 1892 under Rama V as a milled-rice market and famous since the 1980s as the city's backpacker hub.
Khaperkheda power station
Khaperkheda power station, the Khaparkheda Thermal Power Station, is a 1,340 MW coal-fired plant at Khaperkheda in Nagpur district, Maharashtra, owned and operated by the state utility MAHAGENCO.
Khaqani
Khaqani (خاقانی) was a Persian poet of the 12th century, born in Shirvan, regarded as one of the greatest and most difficult masters of the qaṣida.
Khar Us Lake Biosphere Reserve
Khar Us Lake Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2024 in Khovd Province, western Mongolia, spans 14,153 km² around the freshwater Khar Us Lake in the Great Lake basin, protecting steppe, desert, mountain and wetland ecosystems and endemic osman fish.
Khar-Us
Khar-Us (Khar-Us Nuur, Хар-Ус нуур) is Mongolia's second largest freshwater lake, in the Great Lakes Depression, Khovd Province; shallow, glacier-fed by the Khovd River, a Ramsar site, national park, and 2024 UNESCO biosphere reserve, distinct from a smaller same-named lake in Uvs Province.
Khara Khula
Khara Khula (Хара-Хула, born Khutugaitu, died 1634) was a Choros tayishi who led the Oirats and laid the foundations of the Dzungar Khanate, later formalized by his son Erdeni Batur.
Khara-Khoto
黑城城址 (Khara-Khoto, Khar khot), the Xixia Heishuicheng and Yuan Yijinai Circuit city site in Ejin Banner, Inner Mongolia; abandoned in the 1340s, source of the Khara-Khoto documents, national protected site since 2001.
Kharagpur
Kharagpur is a city in Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, known for the South Eastern Railway's largest maintenance workshop and IIT Kharagpur, the first IIT, founded in 1951 at the former Hijli Detention Camp.
Kharaj
Kharaj (خراج) was the land tax of the early Islamic state, introduced by Caliph Umar after the conquest of Iraq and administered by the diwan al-kharaj.
Kharaj administration of Egypt
The kharaj (الخراج) was the land tax of Islamic Egypt, assessed on territory and its yield rather than on persons, and the fiscal core of the Fatimid state.
Kharaj and ushr
Kharaj and ushr (الخراج والعشر) are the two classical levies of Islamic fiscal law, an annual land tax and a tithe of one-tenth of produce, first implemented under Caliph Umar.
Kharaj Mukherjee
Kharaj Mukherjee (Kharaj Mukhopadhyay), Indian Bengali character actor, playback singer and playwright born 1963 in West Bengal; debut Hulusthul (1980); known for Patalghar, Kahaani, Special 26, Bogla Mama Jug Jug Jiyo.