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Kuaizhou-1A
Kuaizhou-1A (快舟一号甲, KZ-1A) is a Chinese solid-propellant launch vehicle developed by ExPace, a subsidiary of CASIC, first flown in 2017 to carry small satellites to low Earth orbit.
Kuakini
Kuakini, born Kaluaikonahale and also known as John Adams, was a Native Hawaiian high chief who served as governor of the Island of Hawaiʻi from 1820 until his death in 1844.
Kuala Kubu Baharu
Kuala Kubu Baharu (Chinese: 新古毛), commonly abbreviated KKB, is a town in Hulu Selangor district, Selangor, Malaysia, designed by Charles Reade as British Malaya's first planned garden town.
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia and a Federal Territory since 1974, founded 1857 as a tin-mining settlement at the Klang–Gombak river confluence; 2.1 million residents, car-oriented urban form, MRT3 Circle Line approved 2025, Local Plan 2040 in force.
Kuala Lumpur Bird Park
Kuala Lumpur Bird Park (Taman Burung Kuala Lumpur), opened 15 November 1991, is a 20.9-acre free-flight walk-in aviary in Perdana Botanical Gardens, Kuala Lumpur, holding about 3,000 birds of over 200 species across four zones, Malaysia's largest bird park.
Kuala Lumpur International Airport
Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), also known as Kuala Lumpur Airport, is Malaysia's main international airport, opened in 1998 in Sepang, Selangor, about 50 km from Kuala Lumpur.
Kuala Lumpur Sentral
Kuala Lumpur Sentral, formally Stesen Sentral Kuala Lumpur and commonly KL Sentral, is a transit-oriented development in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, whose main railway station opened in 2001.
Kuala Lumpur Tower
Kuala Lumpur Tower (Menara Kuala Lumpur, KL Tower) is a 421 m telecommunications and observation tower on Bukit Nanas, Kuala Lumpur, opened 1996; tallest telecom tower in Southeast Asia, seventh worldwide, reopened April 2025 under LSHSM.
Kuala Terengganu
Kuala Terengganu (كوالا ترڠݢانو), capital of Terengganu, Malaysia, a district of about 60,528 hectares at the Terengganu River mouth; city since 1 January 2008, population 251,300 (2026), known for Pasar Payang, the State Museum, and the Crystal Mosque.
Kuan Han-Ch'ing (Mercurian crater)
Kuan Han-Ch'ing (关汉卿) is a 151-km-wide impact crater on Mercury in the H-02 Victoria quadrangle, adopted by the IAU in 1979 and named for the Chinese dramatist Guan Hanqing (c. 1241–1320).
Kuan-Yin Corona
Kuan-Yin Corona (Kuan Yin Corona) is a 310 km wide corona on Venus at 4.30°S, 10.00°E, IAU-named in 1994 for the Chinese fertility goddess, in quadrangle V-32.
Kuan‐Teh Jeang
Kuan-Teh Jeang, known as K T Jeang, was a Taiwanese-born molecular virologist who spent his career at the NIH studying HIV-1 and HTLV-1 and founded the journal Retrovirology in 2004.
Kuang
Kuang is a two-player traditional board game reconstructed in the Ludii system (ruleset Kuang, Ludii 2), played on a 5x5 square-tiled board with Markers that step adjacent; the reconstruction draws on Kolowis Awithlaknannai and related games.
Kuang Heng
Kuang Heng (匡衡), courtesy name Zhigui, was a Western Han Confucian scholar and statesman, celebrated as the leading expositor of the Odes, who became chancellor in 36 BC.
Kuangren
Kuangren (匡仁), called Shushan Kuangren, was a Chan Buddhist monk of the Caodong line who studied under Dongshan Liangjie and taught at Mount Shu in Jiangxi.
Kuanja Chasma
Kuanja Chasma is a rift trough on Venus at about 12° S, 99.5° E, 890 km across, part of the Ix-Chel–Kuanja–Vir-ava rift system; named for an Mbundu hunt goddess, IAU 1982.
Kuantan
Kuantan, capital of Pahang, Malaysia, on the South China Sea at the Kuantan River mouth; city status 2021, 324 km² council area, about 500,000 people, Kuantan Port, and recurring monsoon flooding.
Kuavo
Kuavo is a family of full-size humanoid robots developed by Leju Robotics, a Chinese company founded in Shenzhen in 2016; 577 units were sold in 2025.
Kuawei Intelligence (跨维智能) (Cross-Dimensional Intelligence)
Kuawei Intelligence (跨维智能), brand DexForce, is a Shenzhen embodied-AI startup founded in 2021 by Jia Kui, supplying synthetic-data-trained systems for industrial robotic arms and its own W1 humanoid.
Kuba Kingdom
The Kuba Kingdom, founded around 1625 by Shyaam aMbul aNgoong in south-central Democratic Republic of the Congo, was a federation of about eighteen tribes ruled by the Bushong.
Kuba ngongo cloth cut-pile (velours du Kasaï)
Kuba ngongo cloth, called velours du Kasaï or Kasai velvet, is a cut-pile raffia textile made by the Kuba peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kuba royal art
Kuba royal art is the court art of the Kuba Kingdom in the Congo basin, best known for its ndop royal portrait statues and geometric raffia cloth.
Kuba royal initiation and ndop context carvings
Kuba royal initiation and ndop context carvings center on ndop, idealized wooden portrait figures of Kuba kings, each marked by a personal emblem and used in enthronement and memorial rites.
Kuba textiles
Kuba textiles are decorated raffia cloths made by the Kuba peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, known as Kasai velvet for their plush cut-pile embroidery.
Kubaba (queen of Kish)
Kubaba, also known as Kug-Bau, is the only woman named as a reigning ruler on the Sumerian King List, credited with a 100-year reign over Kish.
Kuban ' (football club)
Kuban (ПФК «Кубань»), Krasnodar football club founded 1928, dissolved 2018, revived by fans; RPL member until 2016, Krasnodar derby rival of FC Krasnodar, now in lower leagues.
Kuban (Кубань)
Kuban (Кубань) is a historical-geographical region in northwestern Caucasia, largely Krasnodar krai, settled by Black Sea (Zaporozhian) Cossacks from 1792, briefly the Kuban People's Republic (1918–1920), and marked by Ukrainian heritage and Cossack identity.
Kuban Rada
The Kuban Rada (Кубанская краевая рада) was the Cossack self-government assembly of the Kuban region, proclaimed in 1917, which proclaimed the Kuban People's Republic in 1918.
Kubar
Kubar (Ku'bar) is the royal town of the Najashi, ruler of the post-Aksumite Christian kingdom, reported by al-Ya'qubi in the 9th century and al-Masudi in the 10th; its location is unresolved.
Kubatum
Kubatum, written ku-ba-tum (Kubātum), was a concubine of Shu-Sin, king of Ur around 2037–2028 BC, known from a Sumerian love song calling her "my queen Kubatum".