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Khulna Division
Khulna Division (খুলনা বিভাগ), one of Bangladesh's eight divisions in the southwest, headquarters Khulna city; 10 districts, 22,284 km², 17.4 million people (2022), the Sundarbans mangrove, and Mongla seaport.
Khumara Hillfort
Khumara Hillfort (Khumarinskoye gorodishche, Skhimar) is an 8th–10th-century Khazar Khaganate stone fortress on the upper Kuban near Karachayevsk, Russia, with a 2 km wall, up to 19 towers, and Alano-Bulgarian garrison.
Khumarawayh
Khumarawayh (خمارويه بن أحمد بن طولون) was a Tulunid ruler of Egypt and Syria from 884 to 896 who won caliphal recognition of his dynasty's hereditary rule.
Khumariyan
Khumariyan, also spelled Khumariyaan, is an instrumental band from Peshawar, Pakistan, formed in 2009, fusing Pashtun folk music led by the rubab with guitars; its 2018 track 'Ya Qurban' has over 13 million views.
Khumbu Icefall
Khumbu Icefall: broken section of the Khumbu Glacier on Everest's Nepal side between Base Camp and Camp I; moves up to 1 m/day, first crossed 1952, fixed each season by SPCC Icefall Doctors; 2014 avalanche killed 16.
Khumesh-Lider
Khumesh-Lider (חומש־לידער, Bible Songs) is a 1935 cycle of Yiddish poems by Itzik Manger, published in Warsaw, that recasts biblical figures as ordinary shtetl Jews.
Khun Chang Khun Phaen
Khun Chang Khun Phaen (ขุนช้างขุนแผน) is a Thai narrative poem telling a love triangle among Khun Chang, Khun Phaen, and Nang Wanthong, begun in oral tradition around 1600.
Khun Lo dynasty
The Khun Lo dynasty (ລາຊະວົງຂຸນລໍ) is the traditional line of Lao rulers descended from Khun Lo, historically founded by Fa Ngum, who proclaimed Lan Xang in 1353.
Khun Sa (张奇夫)
Khun Sa, born Chang Chi-fu (Zhang Qifu), was a Burmese warlord and drug trafficker known as the "Opium King," who surrendered in 1996 and died in 2007.
Khunes
Khunes was a high official and governor of Elephantine, Egypt's southern frontier, in the late Old Kingdom, buried in the largest tomb complex at Qubbet el-Hawa, Aswan.
Khunjerab Pass (红其拉甫山口)
Khunjerab Pass (红其拉甫山口), 4,693 m, is the highest paved international border crossing, on the Karakoram Highway between Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan and China's Xinjiang; sole China–Pakistan land crossing, CPEC entry point, year-round since December 2024.
Khunza Humayun
Khunza Humayun (خونزا ہمایوں) was the wife of Sultan Husain Nizam Shah I and regent of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate, ruling for her son from 1565 until the nobility deposed and imprisoned her around 1571.
Khuraijam Loken Singh
Khuraijam Loken Singh is an Indian politician from the National People's Party who serves as a minister in the Government of Manipur, holding the arts, culture, and tourism portfolio.
Khurais oil field
Khurais oil field is a giant onshore oil field about 150 km southeast of Riyadh, discovered in 1957 and operated by Saudi Aramco with the Abu Jifan and Mazalij satellites.
Khuran Straits
Khuran Straits (Khouran Straits, Tang-e-Khuran), shallow straits between Qeshm Island and mainland Iran in the Persian Gulf; 100,000 ha Ramsar site no. 50 (1975) with the Gulf's largest Avicennia marina mangrove and mudflat ecosystem, strong tidal currents up to 1.85 m/s, and major waterbird colonies.
Khuraybat as Sūq
Khuraybat as Sūq (خريبة السوق), also Kherbet Al-Souk, is a locality of about 186,158 people (2015) on Amman's outskirts, Jordan, part of Greater Amman Municipality, with a Byzantine church on Tall Khuribah and a Roman road-station past.
Khurbet East Oil Field
Khurbet East is an oil field in Block 26 in northeastern Syria, discovered in June 2007 and brought into commercial production in July 2008, operated by Gulfsands Petroleum.
Khurda kingdom
The Khurda kingdom (ଖୋର୍ଧା) was a kingdom in coastal Odisha founded by Ramachandra Deva of the Bhoi dynasty after the fall of the Gajapati empire.
Khurha
Khurha (Khorheh) is a village in Mahallat county, Markazi province, Iran, site of a 2nd- to 3rd-century Parthian building famed for two Ionic stone columns.
Khurja power station
Khurja power station, formally the Khurja Super Thermal Power Plant (खुर्जा सुपर थर्मल पावर परियोजना), is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power station in Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Khursheed N. Jeejeebhoy
Khursheed N. Jeejeebhoy is a Canadian physician-scientist in clinical nutrition and gastroenterology at the University of Toronto, known for developing the Subjective Global Assessment and pioneering home parenteral nutrition in 1971.
Khurshid Aslam
Khurshid Aslam (1936-1993), Pakistani field hockey player, 1960 Rome Olympic gold medalist; not to be confused with Khurshid Azam, 1964 silver medalist.
Khurshid of Tabaristan
Khurshid (خورشید) was the last Dabuyid ispahbad of Tabaristan, who reigned from 741 and died by suicide in 761 after the Abbasid conquest of his kingdom.
Khushab
Khushab is a district of Punjab, Pakistan, on the right bank of the Jhelum River, headquarters at Jauharabad, established 1982, four tehsils, 1.5 million people (2023), between the Salt Range and Thal Desert.
Khushalii Kumar (खुशाली कुमार)
Khushalii Kumar (खुशाली कुमार), born 1990, is an Indian actress, daughter of T-Series founder Gulshan Kumar and sister of Bhushan Kumar. Debuting in 2015 music videos, her film break was Dhokha: Round D Corner (2022), followed by Starfish, Dedh Bigha Zameen, Ghudchadi, and Dulhaniya Le Aaeegi.
Khushboo
Khushboo (खुशबू, Aroma) is a 1975 Hindi drama directed by Gulzar, starring Jeetendra and Hema Malini, based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel Panditmashai, with R.D. Burman music including O Majhi Re. Not the 2008 film or the actress Khushboo Sundar.
Khushbu
Khushbu (குஷ்பு, born Nakhat Khan, 1970, Mumbai), also Khushbu Sundar, Indian actress, producer and BJP politician; Tamil star of Chinna Thambi (1989 era) with Prabhu, over 200 films, DMK-Congress-BJP trajectory, National Commission for Women member.
Khushhal Khan Khattak
Khushhal Khan Khattak (خوشحال خان خٹک), born 1613, was a Pashtun poet, warrior, and hereditary chief of the Khattak tribe who led a revolt against Mughal rule in the Khyber region.
Khushi (खुशी) (2003 Hindi film)
Khushi (खुशी) is a 2003 Hindi romantic comedy directed by S.J. Suryah, produced by Boney Kapoor, starring Fardeen Khan and Kareena Kapoor; a remake of the Tamil Kushi (2000), it flopped at the box office.
Khushi Dubey
Khushi Dubey, Indian film and television actress (born 2001, Allahabad), child star of Naaginn and Dil Dhadakne Do, lead of Aashiqana, Jubilee Talkies, and Jaadu Teri Nazar.