All articles starting with K

Kunqu

Kunqu (昆曲, Kunju, Kunqiang, Kunshanqiang): China's oldest surviving opera genre, from Kunshan near Suzhou. Six-hundred-year history; Wei Liangfu's shuimo diao; first UNESCO intangible heritage list, 2001; called ancestor of a hundred operas.

Oct 20, 2026

Kunri

Kunri (کنری) is a town and taluka headquarters in Umerkot District, Sindh, Pakistan, famed as the "chilli capital of Asia"; its Mirch Mandi trades over 100,000 tonnes of red chilli yearly, and about 85% of the local economy depends on the chilli crop.

Oct 15, 2026

Kunsan Air Base

Kunsan Air Base is a United States Air Force installation on South Korea's west coast, home of the 8th Fighter Wing, the "Wolf Pack," flying F-16s.

Kunshan

Kunshan (昆山) is a county-level city of Jiangsu under Suzhou, between Shanghai and Suzhou. China's top-ranked county economy for 21 straight years, with 2025 GDP of 561.5 billion yuan and a trillion-yuan electronics industry.

Kunsthistorisches Museum

Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM), Vienna's Museum of Art History on Maria-Theresien-Platz, opened 1891 by Franz Joseph; Habsburg collections, 12 Bruegel panels, Vermeer's Art of Painting, Cellini Saliera, Kunstkammer, over 2.1 million 2025 visitors.

Künstlerroman

Künstlerroman, German for "artist-novel," is the Bildungsroman subtype whose protagonist is an artist; Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) is its classic, with examples from Mann, Zola, Turkish, and Latin American fiction.

Kunta (tribe)

The Kunta, in Arabic Kinata, are an Arabic-speaking tribe and scholarly lineage of the southern Sahara and Sahel, prominent from the 18th century in present-day northern Mali.

Kunta Kinte

Kunta Kinte, also known as Toby Waller, is the central character of Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots and its adaptations: a Mandinka man kidnapped in 1767 and enslaved in Maryland.

Kunta Kinteh Island

Kunta Kinteh Island, formerly James Island, is a small fortified island in the Gambia River about 30 km from its mouth, core of a 2003 UNESCO World Heritage serial property tied to the start and abolition of the Atlantic slave trade.

Kuntala Kumari Sabat

Kuntala Kumari Sabat (Odia: କୁନ୍ତଳା କୁମାରୀ ସାବତ) was an Odia poet, novelist, and physician, remembered as the first significant female poet of modern Odisha and its first woman doctor.

Sep 19, 2026

Kuntasi

Kuntasi (કુંતાસી), known locally as Bibi-no-Timbo, is a fortified Mature Harappan settlement in Morbi district, Gujarat, India, about seven kilometers from the Gulf of Kutch, excavated from 1987 as a Harappan port and industrial establishment.

Kunti (कुन्ती)

Kunti (कुन्ती, birth name Pritha), Mahabharata figure: Pandu's wife, mother of Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, and of Karna by Surya via Durvasa's boon; later renunciant.

Kuntian New Energy

Kuntian New Energy is a Chinese maker of artificial graphite anode material for lithium-ion batteries, founded in 2018 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, with customers including CATL and BYD.

Oct 10, 2026

Kuntien Eläkevakuutus (KEVA)

Kuntien Eläkevakuutus, known as Keva, is a Finnish public-law pension institution that administers municipal employees' pensions and invests a EUR 74 billion portfolio, serving about 1.3 million people.

Sep 19, 2026

Kuntillet Ajrud

Kuntillet ʿAjrud is a single-period Iron Age II fortress in northeast Sinai, about 50 km south of Kadesh-Barnea, best known for inscriptions invoking "Yahweh of Samaria and his Ashera".

Sep 19, 2026

Kuntillet Ajrud inscriptions

The Kuntillet Ajrud inscriptions are mostly Hebrew texts from about 800 BCE found in northern Sinai, famous for blessings invoking "Yahweh of Samaria and his Asherah".

Kunwar Digvijay Singh

Kunwar Digvijay Singh, K.D. Singh 'Babu' (1922-1978), Indian field hockey inside right; Olympic gold 1948 as vice-captain and 1952 as captain, bronze-winning coach 1972, Helms Trophy 1953, Padma Shri 1958.

Sep 27, 2026

Kunwar Manvendra Singh

Kunwar Manvendra Singh is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician serving as Chairperson of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council, having earlier served as pro-tem and deputy chairman.

Kunwar Narayan

Kunwar Narayan (कुँवर नारायण) was an Indian Hindi poet, critic, and translator, a leading figure of modern Hindi poetry and winner of the 2008 Jnanpith Award.

Kunwar Singh (कुँवर सिंह)

Kunwar Singh (कुँवर सिंह), Babu Veer Kunwar Singh, 1777–1858, zamindar of Jagdishpur near Arrah, Bihar, who led the 1857 uprising in western Bihar at age 80, fought at Arrah and Jagdishpur, and died in May 1858 after guerrilla campaigns.

Kunwar Vijay Shah (कुंवर विजय शाह)

Kunwar Vijay Shah (कुंवर विजय शाह), BJP MLA from Harsud (ST), Madhya Pradesh, unbeaten in eight elections since 1990; Tribal Affairs minister under Mohan Yadav; investigated over 2025 remarks on Colonel Sofiya Qureshi.

Oct 3, 2026

Kunwara (कुंवारा)

Kunwara (कुंवारा) is a 2000 Hindi romantic comedy directed by David Dhawan, starring Govinda, Urmila Matondkar, and Nagma; a remake of the Telugu Bavagaru Bagunnara?, with music by Aadesh Shrivastava and a below-average box office verdict.

Kunxinning granules

Kunxinning granules (坤心宁颗粒, formerly Kunyining) is a Chinese medicine class 1.1 innovative drug approved in China in November 2021, held by Tasly, for menopausal syndrome of the kidney yin-yang deficiency pattern, distinct from Kunning granules.

Kunya (كنية) (Arabic)

Kunya (كنية), plural kunā or kuniyāt, is the Arabic teknonym formed with Abū, Umm, Ibn or Bint plus a child's name, usually the eldest child's; an honorific component of the Arabic name alongside the ism and laqab, attested from pre-Islamic times.

Kunya-Urgench

Kunya-Urgench (Konye-Urgench), Turkmenistan: ruins of medieval Urgench, capital of Khorezm, on the Amu Daria. UNESCO World Heritage site since 2005, criteria ii and iii, with the 60-m Kutlug-Timur minaret and 11th-16th century mausoleums.

Kunyao Medicine (ClinChoice)

Kunyao Medicine, also known as ClinChoice (昆翎医药), is a clinical contract research organization formed from three merged companies, with over 3,000 employees and a $150 million Series E round in 2022.

Kunyaza

Kunyaza (kachabali in Uganda) is a traditional Central African sexual technique from Rwanda and the Great Lakes region in which a man rhythmically taps the clitoris and labia with the glans of his erect penis to trigger female orgasm and liquid expulsion, documented for at least 150 years.