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Kirthar Mountains
Kirthar Mountains (کیرتھر), a 300 km north–south range in western Pakistan marking the Balochistan–Sindh boundary, 1,000–2,400 m high, an Eocene limestone fold-thrust belt with Kirthar National Park.
Kirti Azad
Kirtivardhan Bhagwat Jha Azad (born 1959, Purnea, Bihar), Indian all-rounder, 7 Tests and 25 ODIs, 1983 World Cup winner who dismissed Ian Botham in the semi-final; later BJP then Trinamool Congress MP from Bardhaman-Durgapur.
Kirti Chakra (कीर्ति चक्र)
Kirti Chakra (कीर्ति चक्र) is India's second-highest peacetime gallantry award, created as Ashoka Chakra Class II in 1952 and renamed in 1967, awarded for valour away from the battlefield.
Kirti K Mehta
Kirti K Mehta is an Indian investor tracked by The Economic Times as Kirti K Mehta & Associates, with a pharmaceuticals-heavy disclosed portfolio worth Rs 51.97 billion.
Kirti Kulhari (कीर्ति कुलहरी)
Kirti Kulhari (कीर्ति कुलहरी), Indian actress and producer born 1985, known for Khichdi: The Movie, Pink, Uri, Four More Shots Please!, and her production house Kintsukuroi Films.
Kirti Mandir, Barsana
Kirti Mandir, Barsana: Hindu temple dedicated to Kirti Maiya, mother of Radha Rani, showing child Radha in her lap. Founded by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj, inaugurated 10 February 2019; 80,000 sq ft, 111 feet tall, near Rangeeli Mahal.
Kirti Vardhan Singh
Kirti Vardhan Singh, born 1966, is an Indian BJP politician who represents Gonda in the Lok Sabha and serves as Union Minister of State for Environment and External Affairs.
Kirtikaumudi
The Kirtikaumudi (कीर्तिकौमुदी, "Moonlight of Fame") is a 13th-century Sanskrit mahakavya by the poet Somesvaradeva celebrating the Gujarat minister Vastupala and narrating Chalukya dynasty history.
Kirtland Air Force Base
Kirtland Air Force Base, also known as Kirtland AFB, is a US Air Force base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, home to nuclear-weapons research and special-operations training.
Kirtland Temple
The Kirtland Temple, built by Latter-day Saints in Kirtland, Ohio, from 1833 to 1836, was the first temple of the Latter Day Saint movement, dedicated in 1836.
Kirua
Kirua was the city ruler of Illubru in Cilicia who rebelled against the Assyrian king Sennacherib, closing the Cilician road before being flayed at Nineveh.
Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran
Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran is an electrical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who researches high-power-density electric machines and superconducting machinery for aircraft propulsion, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Kiruko
Kiruko (キルコ) is a main character of Masakazu Ishiguro's manga and anime Heavenly Delusion (Tengoku Daimakyou): a gun-wielding survivor escorting Maru to "Heaven", whose body is sister Kiriko's and whose brain is brother Haruki's.
Kirum
Kirum, also spelled Kīrum, was a princess of Mari and daughter of its last king, Zimri-Lim, married to Haya-Sumu of Ilan-Sura and known from letters in the Mari archives.
Kiruna
Kiruna is Sweden's northernmost town, founded 1900 around the LKAB iron ore mine in Lapland. About 23,000 residents; since 2004 the town center is being relocated east because mining subsidence, including the 1912 church moved in 2025.
Kirundi
Kirundi (Ikirundi, Rundi) is a Great Lakes Bantu language (J62) of Burundi, official with French since 1962, mutually intelligible with Kinyarwanda, tonal, with 16 noun classes and complex verb morphology.
Kirundo Province
Kirundo Province, a former province of northern Burundi bordering Rwanda, merged into Butanyerera Province in 2023; area 1,703.34 km², 7 communes, 960,267 people, once Burundi's breadbasket, now among its poorest provinces.
Kiryas Joel, New York
Kiryas Joel, a village in Orange County, New York, incorporated 1977, is a Satmar Hasidic enclave coterminous since 2019 with the Town of Palm Tree; population grew from 20,175 in 2010 to 47,147 by 2025.
Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil (किस देश में है मेरा दिल)
Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil (किस देश में है मेरा दिल), also called KDMHMD, is a 2008-2010 Balaji Telefilms Hindi soap on Star Plus about Prem and Heer, whose fathers promised their marriage; 444 episodes, starring Harshad Chopda, Additi Gupta, and Sushant Singh Rajput.
Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon (किस किसको प्यार करूँ)
Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon (किस किसको प्यार करूँ), 2015 Hindi comedy directed by Abbas-Mustan, Kapil Sharma's film debut about a man with three wives and a girlfriend; released 25 September 2015, a box office hit.
Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2 (किस किसको प्यार करूँ 2)
Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2 (किस किसको प्यार करूँ 2), 2025 Hindi comedy-drama sequel to the 2015 Kapil Sharma film, directed by Anukalp Goswami; released 12 December 2025, grossed about ₹16 crore, streamed on JioHotstar from February 2026.
Kis-Kis
Kis-Kis (Кис-Кис) is a Russian pop-punk duo formed in Saint Petersburg in November 2018 by vocalist Sofya Somuseva and drummer Alina Olesheva, who broke through with a viral debut video.
Kisa Gotami
Kisa Gotami, also known as Kisāgotamī, was an early Buddhist nun and arahant remembered for the mustard-seed story, in which her dead child teaches her that death is universal.
Kisa-Saṅkicca
Kisa-Saṅkicca (किससङ्किच्च) was a naked Ājīvika ascetic contemporary with the Buddha, named in the Mahāsaccaka Sutta (MN 36) alongside Nanda Vaccha and Makkhali Gosāla; the commentaries count him among the three "shining lights" of the Ājīvakas.
Kisa'i Marvazi
Kisa'i Marvazi (کسایی مروزی), born in Marv in 953, was a Persian poet remembered as a pioneer of religious and ethical poetry and author of the earliest Persian elegy on Karbala.
Kisaeng (기생)
Kisaeng (기생), also called gwan-gi, were government-attached female entertainers of Goryeo and Joseon who performed yeoak song, dance, and music at state feasts; legally gwan-nobi slaves, about 700 existed under Injong, reorganized into gwonbeon under Japanese rule until 1940.
Kisah
Kisah was an Indonesian monthly literary magazine devoted to short stories, first published in Jakarta in July 1953 under Sudjati S.A. and counted among the defining publications of the Angkatan '50s.
Kisah Bawah Tanah
Kisah Bawah Tanah is a Malaysian 2D animated horror-comedy series by Hendra Wardi and Arzuan Anuar, premiering 9 March 2026 on Astro Prima and Sooka, following skeleton friends Zack and Sam in a supernatural underworld.
Kisan Credit Card (किसान क्रेडिट कार्ड)
The Kisan Credit Card (किसान क्रेडिट कार्ड) is an Indian government-backed revolving credit facility for farmers, proposed in the 1998-99 Union Budget and subsidized through the interest subvention scheme.
Kisangani
Kisangani, formerly Stanleyville, is a major river city in northeastern DRC, capital of Tshopo province below the Boyoma Falls. Founded by Stanley in 1883, renamed 1966; site of the 1999-2000 Ugandan-Rwandan battles.