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Kugelblitz (astrophysics)
A kugelblitz, German for "ball lightning," is a hypothetical black hole formed by concentrating light rather than collapsing matter; 2024 calculations suggest quantum effects prevent it.
Kugelpanzer
The Kugelpanzer is a one-man spherical armored vehicle of disputed origin, the only known built World War II-era ball tank, displayed at the Kubinka Tank Museum near Moscow.
Kugiran Masdo
Kugiran Masdo, also styled MASDO, is a Malaysian band formed in 2015 that revives 1960s pop yeh yeh music; its single 'Dinda' topped Spotify's Viral 50 Indonesia chart.
Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park
Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park (Kugluk, Inuinnaqtun for white water) is a Nunavut park 13 km south of Kugluktuk on the Coppermine River, protecting Bloody Falls, a 1978 national historic site with 3,000-plus years of Pre-Dorset, Thule, and Inuit archaeology.
Kugong Island
Kugong Island, an uninhabited island in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, also known in Eastern Canadian Inuktitut; the westernmost member of the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay, about 321 km² and 54 km long, with 15 m base elevation, Belcher Group geology, and significant seabird and polar bear habitat.
Kugyō
Kugyō (公卿), also known as kandachime, was the collective term for the highest court nobles of premodern Japan, the ministers and councilors who directed national government under the emperor.
Kugyō gijō
Kugyō gijō (公卿議定) was the deliberation by the kugyō, the highest-ranking court nobles of premodern Japan, to settle important matters of state, often compared to a modern cabinet meeting.
Kuh-e Bandaka (Tirgaran)
Kuh-e Bandaka (Tirgaran, کوه بندکا) is a 6,812 m ultra-prominent Hindu Kush peak in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, the country's third highest; first climbed in 1960 by a West Berlin expedition via the west ridge.
Kuh-e Chuk Shakh
Kuh-e Chuk Shakh (کوه چوک شاخ), also romanized Kōh-e Chūk Shākh, is a 5,467 m ultra-prominent Hindu Kush mountain in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, near Ishkashim, with about 2,444 m prominence and no recorded ascents.
Kuh-e Dinar
Kuh-e Dinar (کوه دینار), a Zagros mountain in Isfahan, Iran, about 4,182–4,409 m high, uplifted on the Dinar thrust of the High Zagros fault; distinct from smaller same-named mountains in Ilam and Kerman.
Kuh-e Fareghan
Kuh-e Fareghan (Kūh-e Fāreghān, Homag/Hemag) is a 3,240 m ultra-prominence peak in Hormozgan, Iran, the highest point of the Southern Zagros, with 2,082 m prominence; the surrounding range holds 52 named peaks up to 3,250 m.
Kuh-e Genu
Kuh-e Genu (کوه گنو) is the name of two mountains in southern Iran: a 2,540 m peak in Kerman Province and an isolated 2,350 m massif in Hormozgan Province.
Kuh-e Hami
Kuh-e Hami, also rendered Kūh-e Hāmī, is an ultra-prominent mountain in the Zagros Mountains of southwestern Iran, standing about 3,200 meters above sea level in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province.
Kuh-e Hazar
Kuh-e Hazar (کوه هزار, Kūh-e Hezār), also Hazaran or Hezar, is an ultra-prominent 4,465-4,501 m massif in Kerman Province, southeastern Iran, the highest peak outside the Alborz, in the Sahand-Bazman volcanic belt near Rayen.
Kuh-e Jang Qal'eh
Kuh-e Jang Qal'eh (کوه جنگ قلعه), also Kōh-e Jang Qal'ah, is a mountain in Pur Chaman District, Farah Province, Afghanistan; listed at 4,171 m with 1,476 m prominence and 258 km isolation in the Central Afghanistan Ranges.
Kuh-e Nay Band
Kuh-e Nay Band (کوه نای بند), Nayband, is a 2,960 m ultra-prominent peak in South Khorasan Province, Iran, the province's highest point and namesake of the Triassic Nayband Formation and Nayband fault.
Kuh-e Shab
Kuh-e Shab (کوه شب), also Hormoz or Kūh-i-Hormuz, a mountain and range in Iran's Southern Zagros near Fars/Hormozgan; highest summit Kuh-e Show 2,681 m, an ultra-prominent peak with 2,100 m prominence.
Kuh-e Shahvar
Kuh-e Shahvar (كوهِ شاهوار, Kūh-e Shāhvār) is a high Alborz mountain in Shahrud County, Semnan Province, Iran, near 36.58 N, 54.76 E; published elevations run 3,670 to 3,945 m, with 1,923 m prominence, an Iranian Ultra peak.
Kuh-e Siah Khvani
Kuh-e Siah Khvani (کوه سیاه خوانی), also recorded as Shirbad, is the highest summit of the Binalood range near Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran; reported elevations range from 2,682 to 3,314 m.
Kuh-e Taftan
Kuh-e Taftan (تفتان), also Koh-i Taftan, is a 3,940 m eroded andesitic stratovolcano in Sistan and Baluchestan, southeastern Iran, on the Makran arc; Pleistocene last eruption, persistent fumaroles, and 2023–2024 summit uplift unrest.
Kuh-e Zendan
Kuh-e Zendan (کوه زندان, "Prison Mountain") names several separate Iranian mountains: an 855 m peak in Hormozgan, a 1,805 m mountain and a 2,011 m volcano in West Azerbaijan, and a 1,025 m mountain in Kerman Province.
Kuh-e-Sabalaan
Kuh-e-Sabalaan (Sabalan, Savalan, سبلان) is a 4,811 m stratovolcano in Ardabil province, NW Iran, Iran's third-highest peak, with a summit caldera, frozen crater lake, seven glaciers, and hot-spring spa towns on its slopes.
Kuh-i Belandtarin
Kuh-i Belandtarin (کوه بلندترین), also Koh-e Helal, is a 6,286 m ultra prominent peak in Wakhan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan, in the Pamir; first ascent 7 August 1971 by Italians, prominence 2,008 m, col 4,278 m.
Kuh-i Shahrak
Kuh-i Shahrak, also called Mount Shahrak, is a 2,238-meter mountain in Fars province, Iran, known for its rock-cut fire altar, published by David Stronach in 1966.
Kuhhandel
Kuhhandel (You're Bluffing!) is a 1985 Rüdiger Koltze auction and bluffing card game from Ravensburger for 3-5 players, using 40 animal cards, 55 money cards, buy-rights, and face-down cattle trades.
Kuhikugu
Kuhikugu is a group of defended pre-Columbian villages in the upper Xingu River basin in Mato Grosso, Brazil, built by the ancestors of the Kuikuro people.
Kuhn Ø
Kuhn Ø (Kuhn Island) is a 634 km² island in Hochstetter Bay, East Greenland, named by Koldewey's 1869–70 expedition after Austrian war minister Franz Kuhn; noted for Jurassic coal-bearing strata and half-graben geology.
Kuhn Ridge Coal Mine
Kuhn Ridge Coal Mine is a surface coal mine near Rupert in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, operated by Greenbrier Smokeless Coal Mining LLC and currently listed as temporarily idled.
Kuhoo Verma
Kuhoo Verma (born 1996), American actress and singer. Known for Sunny in Hulu's Plan B (2021), The Big Sick, Murder Mystery 2, and the Lucille Lortel Award-winning role in Octet; played Veronica Sawyer in Heathers Off-Broadway from 2025.
Kuhrud Mountains
The Kuhrud Mountains, also spelled Kohrud or Qohrud, are a mountain range in central Iran northeast of Esfahan, one of the parallel ranges of the Iranian Plateau.