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Kon Ha Nung Highland Biosphere Reserve
Kon Ha Nung Highland Biosphere Reserve (Cao nguyên Kon Hà Nừng) is a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve designated in 2021 in Gia Lai Province, Viet Nam, its 11th, covering 413,511 ha with core areas Kon Ka Kinh National Park and Kon Chu Rang Nature Reserve.
Kon Ichikawa (市川崑)
Kon Ichikawa (市川崑, 1915–2008), Japanese film director also known as Ichikawa Kon; from J.O. Studio animation to The Burmese Harp, Tokyo Olympiad, and The Inugami Family, with screenwriter wife Wada Natto.
Kon Knueppel
Kon Knueppel (born 2005) is an American NBA wing for the Charlotte Hornets, drafted fourth overall in 2025 from Duke, where he was ACC Tournament MVP; he led the NBA in threes made as a rookie.
Kon the Louis Vuitton Don
Kon the Louis Vuitton Don is Kanye West's third mixtape, released January 24, 2004, his last before The College Dropout; named for his 'Louis Vuitton Don' moniker, issued on CD and vinyl, with disputed tracklistings and long-running authenticity debate.
Kon Tum
Kon Tum, highland city on the Dak Bla River in Vietnam's Central Highlands; former capital of Kon Tum Province (est. 1913, merged into Quang Ngai 2025); Bahnar minority culture, Wooden Church, Bo Y tri-border gate.
Kon-Tiki (2012 film)
Kon-Tiki (2012) is a Norwegian historical drama directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg, dramatizing Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 balsa-raft Pacific crossing; Oscar-nominated, Norway's costliest film at release, criticized for its Watzinger portrayal.
Kon-Tiki expedition
The Kon-Tiki expedition (1947): Thor Heyerdahl and five crew crossed about 8,000 km from Callao, Peru to Raroia atoll in 101 days on a balsa-log raft, testing South American raft voyaging to Polynesia; the migration theory itself was rejected.
Kona
Kona, full name Dilshad Nahar Kona, is a Bangladeshi playback and pop singer from Dhaka who has recorded for more than a hundred films and released three solo albums.
Kona coffee
Kona coffee: premium Arabica coffee, mostly Kona Typica, grown on a narrow 20-mile belt of Hawaii Island's western slopes; ~2 million pounds of green beans yearly, protected by state labeling law rising to 51% in 2027.
Kona International Airport
Kona International Airport, officially Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keahole, is the primary airport on the Island of Hawaii, built on lava fields near Kailua-Kona and opened in 1970.
Kona Xiehaier Ancient City Site
阔纳协海尔古城遗址 (Kona Xiehaier ancient city site, Kōna Shahri), a Wei-Jin to Tang city site in Luntai County, Xinjiang; proposed seat of Tang Wulei Prefecture; surveyed by Stein in 1913–1916; 8th-batch national key protection unit (2019); distinct from the namesake Kona Xieer city in Shaya County.
Konakovskaya GRES power station
Konakovskaya GRES (Конаковская ГРЭС) is a 2,520 MW gas-fired thermal power station on the Ivankovo Reservoir near Konakovo, Tver Oblast, Russia; its first unit was commissioned in 1965.
Konami (コナミグループ株式会社)
Konami Group Corporation (コナミグループ株式会社), founded 1969 by Kagemasa Kozuki in Osaka as a jukebox repair business, is a Japanese entertainment conglomerate spanning video games (eFootball, Metal Gear, Silent Hill, Yu-Gi-Oh), arcade machines, casino gaming systems, and fitness clubs, listed in Tokyo and London.
Konami (たかもと 里奈) (wrestler)
Konami (小波) is a Japanese professional wrestler, born in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, who debuted in 2015, joined Stardom in 2018, and is a member of the HATE faction.
Konami Code
Konami Code (コナミコマンド, Konami Komando): Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A cheat sequence created by Kazuhisa Hashimoto testing the 1986 NES Gradius port, famous for 30 lives in Contra.
Konane
Konane, sometimes called Hawaiian checkers, is an ancient Hawaiian strategy board game, hundreds of years old, in which stones are captured by jumps and the last player able to move wins.
Konar Coal Mine
Konar Coal Mine is an opencast coal mine in Bokaro district, Jharkhand, India, operated by Central Coalfields Limited with proposed expansion from 4.10 to 8 MTPA.
Konār Sandal
Konār Sandal: pair of Bronze Age settlement mounds (North and South) 28 km south of Jiroft, Kerman, Iran, in the Halil Rud valley; excavated by Madjidzadeh from 2003, occupied c. 2880–2200 BC, with chlorite workshops, sealings, and disputed geometric tablets.
Konark (କୋଣାର୍କ)
Konark (କୋଣାର୍କ), also Konaditya, is a coastal town in Puri district, Odisha, India, home to the 13th-century Sun Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site; NAC population 16,779 (2011).
Konark Sun Temple (କୋଣାର୍କ ସୂର୍ଯ୍ୟ ମନ୍ଦିର)
Konark Sun Temple, historically the Black Pagoda, is a 13th-century Hindu temple to the sun god Surya at Konark in Puri district, Odisha, India, built as a monumental stone chariot.
Konata Mumpfield
Konata Mumpfield, Los Angeles Rams wide receiver (No. 4), 2025 seventh-round pick (242nd overall) from Pittsburgh via Akron; 21 games, 16 catches, 204 yards, 2 TDs through 2026.
Konatsu Kato (加藤 小夏)
Konatsu Kato (加藤 小夏), Japanese actress born 1999 in Tokyo; debuted as Aiko Aso in I"s, appeared in Kamakura dono no 13-nin, and voices and motion-captures Hinako Shimizu in Silent Hill f (2025).
Konbaung conquest of the Shan states
The Konbaung conquest of the Shan states was the reassertion of Burmese authority over the Shan principalities of eastern and northeastern Burma, beginning with King Alaungpaya's campaigns of 1758–1759 and consolidated under Hsinbyushin.
Konbaung dynasty
The Konbaung dynasty (ကုန်းဘောင်မင်းဆက်) was the last dynasty of Burma, founded by the village headman Alaungpaya in 1752 and ended by the Third Anglo-Burmese War in 1885.
Konbaung Set Yazawin
Konbaung Set Yazawin, fully the Konbaung Set Maha Yazawindawgyi, is a Burmese royal chronicle of the Konbaung dynasty, compiled by U Maung Maung Tin and covering 1752 to 1885.
Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War
The Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War (1752–1757) was the war between Alaungpaya's Konbaung Dynasty and the Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom of the Mon south, ending independent Mon rule in Lower Burma.
Konchak
Konchak (Кончак), who died not earlier than 1187, was a Cuman khan who united the eastern Cuman tribes and became the chief adversary, at times ally, of the Rus' princes.
Konchitsya leto (Кончится лето)
Konchitsya leto (Кончится лето, also "Ya zhdu otveta") is a 1990 Viktor Tsoi song by Soviet rock group Kino, opening the posthumous Black Album (January 1991), recorded in Latvia and later used in Serebrennikov's Leto and the 2025 film of the same name.
Konda Vishweshwar Reddy
Konda Vishweshwar Reddy (born 1960) is an Indian engineer, entrepreneur, and BJP politician, MP for Chevella, Telangana (elected 2014 for TRS, 2024 for BJP), among India's wealthiest MPs with declared family assets over ₹4,568 crore.
Kondal (കോണ്ടൽ)
Kondal (കോണ്ടൽ) is a 2024 Malayalam action crime drama directed by Ajith Mampally, starring Antony Varghese as fisherman Manuel; set almost entirely on a boat at sea, released 13 September 2024, streamed on Netflix from 13 October 2024.