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Kōrogi Sports Park
Korogi (Kōrogi) Sports Park, Nisshin City, Aichi Prefecture near Nagoya, is a converted baseball facility housing Japan's second international-standard natural-grass cricket ground, built for the 2026 Asian Games and first used at the 2026 T20 World Cup EAP Qualifier.
Kōrokan
Kōrokan (鴻臚館) was the guest house of ancient Japan where envoys from Tang China and Silla were received, active from the late 7th to 11th century.
Korol i Shut
Korol i Shut (Король и Шут, "The King and the Jester") is a Russian folk-punk band founded in 1988 in Leningrad, best known for horror-fairy-tale songs such as "Lesnik".
Korolev (lunar crater)
Korolev is a 423.41 km peak-ring impact basin on the far side of the Moon, named for Soviet rocketry scientist Sergey Korolev (1906-1966), with satellite craters Korolev C, E, W, Y, Z.
Korolev (Martian crater)
Korolev crater, an 82 km wide impact crater at 73°N 165°E in Mars' northern lowlands near Olympia Undae, holds a 1.8 km thick, 2,200 cubic km dome of permanent water ice, the third largest exposed ice sheet on Mars after the polar caps.
Korolevskoye Oil Field
The Korolevskoye Oil Field, also called the Korolev field, is an oil field in western Kazakhstan near the Caspian Sea, discovered in 1986 and operated by Tengizchevroil.
Korolova (Ольга Королова) (DJ)
Korolova (Ольга Королова), Ukrainian DJ and producer from Chernihiv in melodic techno and progressive house; formerly DJ Da Queen, founder of Captive Soul, DJ Mag Top 100 No. 36 in 2026.
Korolyov
Korolyov (Королёв), formerly Kaliningrad, Moscow Oblast, is a science city northeast of Moscow, renamed in 1996 for Sergei Korolev, a rocket and space industry center with naukograd status since 2001.
Korona Kielce
Korona Kielce (Korona S.A.), Polish Ekstraklasa football club from Kielce founded 10 July 1973 by the Iskra–SHL merger; metallic crown emblem, Exbud Arena stadium, 2008 match-fixing demotion, city and Korona 4ever ownership.
Koronadal, Soccsksargen
Koronadal, also called Marbel, is a component city in South Cotabato, Philippines; provincial capital and regional center of SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII), population 201,844 in 2024, founded as the 1940 Marbel Settlement District.
Koronis(2) family
Koronis(2), or Koronis 2, is a young main-belt asteroid family associated with (158) Koronis, distinct from the old classical Koronis family; first identified by Molnar & Haegert (2009), its age is uncertain, likely over 10 million years.
Koror
Koror is a state and town in Palau, its former capital and economic center, home to about 65% of the population on three causeway-linked islands; formerly the administrative center of Japanese Micronesia.
Koror–Babeldaob Bridge
The Koror–Babeldaob Bridge, also known as the KB Bridge, connects Koror and Babeldaob islands in Palau; the original 1977 span collapsed in 1996 and Japan funded a replacement opened in 2002.
Korosten' Raion
Korosten' Raion (Коростенський район), a district of Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Korosten; enlarged in the 2020 reform to 11,072.8 km², 258,935 people, 529 localities, 13 hromadas.
Korostyshiv Raion
Korostyshiv Raion (Коростишівський район) was a district in southeastern Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine, with its center in the city of Korostyshiv. Created in 1923, it was merged into Zhytomyr Raion in 2020.
Korotkoff sounds
Korotkoff sounds, also known as Korotkov sounds, are pulsatile sounds heard over the brachial artery during blood pressure cuff deflation, described by Nikolai Korotkov in 1905; their onset marks systolic and their disappearance diastolic pressure.
Korowai people
Korowai (koluf-yanop, Kolufo), a Papuan people of about 4,000 in southern Indonesian Papua between the Eilanden and Becking rivers; clan-based society, treehouse settlements, first contact 1974, heavily staged TV portrayals since 1986.
Korpedzhe Gas Field
Korpedzhe Gas Field, also spelled Korpeje or Korpezhe, is an operating gas field in western Turkmenistan near the Iranian border, on stream since 1995 and the starting point of the Korpeje-Kordkuy pipeline to Iran.
Korpeje-Kordkuy Gas Pipeline
The Korpeje-Kordkuy Gas Pipeline is a 200-kilometer natural gas pipeline from the Korpeje field in western Turkmenistan to Kordkuy in northern Iran, opened in 1997.
Korporata Energjetike e Kosovës
Korporata Energjetike e Kosovës, or Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK), is the state-owned power company of Kosovo, generating around 95 percent of its electricity from lignite.
Korra
Korra is the Southern Water Tribe protagonist of The Legend of Korra (2012–2014), the Avatar after Aang, voiced by Janet Varney, facing Amon, Unalaq, Zaheer, and Kuvira, later vilified in Avatar: Seven Havens.
Korrigan Chasma
Korrigan Chasma is a 365-km-long canyon (graben) on Ariel, a moon of Uranus, centered at 27.6S 347.5E, IAU-named in 1988 for Breton folklore spirits, part of the older Pixie Group of chasmata.
kors k
kors k is the main alias of Kosuke Saito (斎藤広祐), a Japanese electronic music producer and DJ known for Konami's beatmania IIDX and the Hardcore Tano*C label.
Korsakoff syndrome
Korsakoff syndrome (Korsakoff psychosis), chronic amnestic phase of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, caused by thiamine deficiency, usually alcohol-related; marked by global amnesia, confabulation, mammillary body and thalamic damage, treated with parenteral thiamine.
Korschenbroich-Liedberg
Korschenbroich-Liedberg, a district of Korschenbroich in Rhein-Kreis Neuss, Germany, sits on the Liedberg, a ~30 m quartzite hill with a nature reserve, Schloss Liedberg, and a historic half-timbered village core, first recorded in 1166.
Korsun-Shevchenkivskyy Raion
Korsun-Shevchenkivskyy Raion (Корсунь-Шевченківський район) was a district of Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, 1923–2020, centered on Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi; abolished in the July 2020 reform and split between Cherkasy and Zvenyhorodka raions.
Kort nozzle
A Kort nozzle is a fixed, ring-shaped duct around a ship's propeller, patented by Ludwig Kort in the 1930s, that increases thrust at low speeds, as on tugboats and trawlers.
Korteweg–de Vries equation
The Korteweg–de Vries equation, or KdV equation, is a nonlinear partial differential equation, derived in 1895, that models long waves such as shallow water waves and supports solitons.
Körtik Tepe
Körtik Tepe (Körtiktepe), a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A tell in Diyarbakır, Turkey, at the Batman–Tigris confluence, occupied about 10,700–9,300 BC; over 2,000 intramural burials, round stone houses, decorated chlorite vessels, excavated 2000–2018.
Kortney Wilson
Kortney Wilson (nee Galerno, born 1979, Windsor, Ontario), also known as singer Kortney Kayle, is a Canadian TV host, designer, and Nashville realtor, co-host of HGTV's Masters of Flip and later Life Is Messy with Kenny Brain.