All articles starting with K

Kumpula Botanic Garden

Kumpula Botanic Garden (Kumpulan kasvitieteellinen puutarha) is a six-hectare Luomus garden in Helsinki on Kumpula Manor grounds, founded 1987, opened 2009, with cultivated-plant and geobotanical collections; closed until spring 2027.

Kumpulan Wang Persaraan

Kumpulan Wang Persaraan, known as KWAP, is Malaysia's statutory retirement fund for public servants, managing contributions, investments, and pension payments through programs like the RM6 billion Dana Pemacu.

Kumpupintil

Kumpupintil Lake, formerly Lake Disappointment, is a large endorheic salt lake in Western Australia's Little Sandy Desert on Martu land, officially renamed in November 2020 and home of the Ngayurnangalku beings.

Kumquat

Kumquat (金柑; Citrus japonica, formerly Fortunella) is a small cold-hardy citrus from southeastern China, eaten whole with its sweet peel; main types Nagami, Marumi, and Meiwa.

Kumquat Biosciences

Kumquat Biosciences Inc. is a privately held, clinical-stage biotechnology company in San Diego, California, founded in 2018, whose lead KRAS G12D inhibitor entered a first-in-human Phase I trial under license to Bayer.

Kumrovec

Kumrovec is a village and municipality in Krapina-Zagorje County, Croatia, on the Sutla valley border with Slovenia; birthplace of Josip Broz Tito (1892) and home of the Staro Selo open-air ethnographic museum.

Kumsa Moroda

Kumsa Moroda (Oromo: Kumsaa Morodaa), baptized Gebre Egziabher, was the last Moti (king) of the Leqa Naqamte state in Wallaga, western Ethiopia, ruling from 1889 to 1923.

Kūmsong Vallis

Kūmsong Vallis (Kumsong Vallis), a 700 km valley system on Venus centered at -59.00°, 152.50°E, IAU-approved in 1997, named with the Korean word for the planet Venus.

Kumsusan Palace of the Sun

The Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, formerly Kumsusan Memorial Palace and Kim Il Sung Mausoleum, is a Pyongyang mausoleum holding the preserved bodies of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

Kumtor Gold Mine

The Kumtor Gold Mine is a gold mine in the Tien Shan mountains of eastern Kyrgyzstan, opened in 1997 and nationalized by the Kyrgyz government in 2021.

Oct 15, 2026

Kumul Petroleum

Kumul Petroleum is the wholly state-owned national petroleum company of Papua New Guinea, holding a 16.57 percent stake in the PNG LNG Project and paying the State over $1.9 billion since 2014.

Kumulipo

The Kumulipo is the Hawaiian cosmogonic chant of about 2,102 lines, tracing sea life, plants, gods, and humans from primordial darkness to the royal family it honors.

Sep 24, 2026

Kumwimba Ngombe

Kumwimba Ngombe (Kumwimba Ngombe a Ngoie) was a king of the Luba empire in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, reigning from about 1810 to about 1840.

Kumyks (къумукълар)

Kumyks (къумукълар, къумукъ), a Turkic Kipchak-speaking people of the Kumyk plain and Caspian shore in Dagestan; over 500,000 people, historically ruled by the Tarki shamkhalate, with Kumyk once Dagestan's state language.

Kun Can

Kun Can (髡残, 1612 to about 1673) was a Chinese Buddhist monk and landscape painter of the early Qing dynasty, one of the Four Monks alongside Shitao and Bada Shanren.

Kun Fu

Kun (Kelvin) Fu is a mechanical engineer at the University of Delaware who directs the Composite & Additive Manufacturing Laboratory and works on 3D printing composites and battery materials.

Kun lbokator

Kun Lbokator (Bokator, គុនល្បុក្កតោ) is Cambodia's ancient martial art of close-quarter striking, grappling, and weapons, organized into 12 gates and 7 krama levels; UNESCO-inscribed in 2022 and a 2023 SEA Games discipline.

Kun Na

Kun Na (나건) is a South Korean professor of biomedical chemical engineering at the Catholic University of Korea, known for polymeric biomaterials and drug delivery research.

Sep 20, 2026

Kun Ping Lu

Kun Ping Lu is a Chinese-born biochemist and cancer biologist known for discovering Pin1, an enzyme linked to cancer and Alzheimer's, and developing Pin1-targeted therapies.

Kun Zhang

Kun Zhang is an American-based genomics and epigenomics researcher known for single-cell genome sequencing, a Principal Investigator at Altos Labs after chairing bioengineering at UC San Diego.

Kun Zhou

Kun Zhou is a Singapore-based mechanical engineer and professor at Nanyang Technological University known for combining mechanics of materials with 3D printing of high-performance metal alloys.

Kun-Damu

Kun-Damu was a king of Ebla, the Bronze Age Syrian kingdom at Tell Mardikh, who ruled in the mid-24th century BC, before the city's main written archives.

Kun-Liang Guan

Kun-Liang Guan (管坤良) is a Chinese-born biochemist, formerly Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego, known for Hippo pathway research and cofounding OncoImmune, acquired by Merck in 2020.

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み), the native-Japanese "meaning reading" of kanji, contrasted with the Chinese-derived on'yomi; covers definition, examples like 山 (やま), historical origins in kanbun reading, usage patterns, jukujikun, and psycholinguistic findings.

Kunaal Roy Kapur

Kunaal Roy Kapur, Indian film actor and director (born 1979, Mumbai), known for Delhi Belly (2011), Nautanki Saala!, directing The President Is Coming (2009), and streaming series Bandish Bandits and TVF Tripling.

Kunaal Vermaa

Kunaal Vermaa, also known as Kunal Vermaa, is an Indian lyricist and composer for Hindi film music from Rajasthan, known for 'Hasi', 'Tum Hi Aana', and 'Duniyaa'.

Kunal

Kunal is an archaeological site in Fatehabad district, Haryana, India, on the dried Sarasvati river bed, best known for a hoard of silver crowns, armlets, and gold beads.

Kunal Bahl (कुणाल बहल)

Kunal Bahl (कुणाल बहल) is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Snapdeal in 2010, valued at $6.5 billion at its peak, and later the venture firm Titan Capital.

Kunal Ganjawala (कुनाल गंजावाला)

Kunal Ganjawala (कुनाल गंजावाला), born 1972 in Pune, is an Indian playback singer famous for "Bheege Honth Tere" from Murder (2004), winner of the 2005 Filmfare Best Male Playback Singer and R.D. Burman awards, with over 1,000 songs in Hindi, Kannada, Bengali and other languages.