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Kuo Kuang power plant
Kuo Kuang power plant (国光火力发电厂) is a 480 MW gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Guishan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, in commercial operation since 2003.
Kuo-Fen Lee
Kuo-Fen Lee, born 1959 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is a molecular neurobiologist and professor at the Salk Institute known for defining p75 neurotrophin receptor function through gene targeting.
Kuo‐Wei Huang
Kuo-Wei Huang, known professionally as Andy Huang, is a Taiwanese chemist and professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia who works on catalysis, electrocatalysis, and formic acid as an energy carrier.
Kuok Group
The Kuok Group is a family-controlled Asian conglomerate founded by Robert Kuok, the "Sugar King of Asia," in 1949 in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, now spanning hotels, agribusiness, and logistics.
Kuok Khoon Hong
Kuok Khoon Hong (郭孔丰) is a Singapore-based agribusiness executive who co-founded Wilmar International, the world's largest palm oil trader, in 1991 and has chaired it since 2006.
Kuokuotiemuer
Kuokuotiemuer (扩廓帖木儿), born Wang Baobao, was a Yuan dynasty general who led the civil wars of the 1360s and fought the Ming until his death in 1375.
Kuomboka
Kuomboka is the annual ceremony of Zambia's Lozi people, in which the Litunga, the Lozi king, moves by barge from Lealui to Limulunga as the Zambezi floods.
Kuomintang (Nationalist Party)
The Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party (中国国民党), is the Chinese political party tracing its lineage from the Revive China Society to the present Chinese Nationalist Party.
Kuopio
Kuopio, a city in Finland's North Savo region on lake Kallavesi; founded 1653 by Per Brahe, refounded 1775 by Gustav III; about 127,000 residents, Finland's 8th largest city, quarter of its area is water.
Kuosheng nuclear power plant
Kuosheng nuclear power plant (核二厂), formally the Second Nuclear Power Plant, is a decommissioned two-unit station on Taiwan's northern coast whose reactors ran from 1981 and 1983.
Kupal Oil Field
Kupal (کوپال) is an onshore oil field in Khuzestan province, southwestern Iran, about 60 km east of Ahvaz, discovered in 1965 and producing since 1971.
Kuparuk Oil Pipeline
The Kuparuk Oil Pipeline is an above-ground crude oil pipeline on Alaska's North Slope, carrying processed crude from the Kuparuk River field to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline at Prudhoe Bay.
Kuparuk River Oil and Gas Field
The Kuparuk River Oil and Gas Field is a giant oil field on Alaska's North Slope, 40 miles west of Prudhoe Bay, discovered in 1969 and producing since 1981.
Kupe Oil and Gas Field
The Kupe Oil and Gas Field is a gas, condensate, and LPG field in New Zealand's Taranaki Basin, 30 kilometers off the South Taranaki coast, producing since December 2009.
Kupelternum/Cubulteria
Cubulteria (Compulteria, KVPELTERNUM) was a Caudine Samnite town on the Volturnus in Caserta province, Italy, near Alvignano and Dragoni. It minted bronze coins c. 300–268 BC, defected to Hannibal in 215 BC, was retaken by Fabius Maximus, and ended after 9th-century Saracen destruction.
Kupffer cell
Kupffer cells (Kupffer'sche Sternzellen) are the resident macrophages of the liver, located inside hepatic sinusoids. Largest fixed macrophage population in the body; yolk-sac derived, self-renewing, phagocytic blood filter central to iron recycling and liver immunity.
Kupiansk offensive
Russian campaign since late 2023 to retake Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast, recaptured by Ukraine in September 2022; Russian forces reached the city center in October 2025 before Ukrainian forces largely retook it in December 2025.
Kupikkala-Mahatissa
Kupikkala-Mahatissa (कुपिक्कल-महातिस्स) was a Sri Lankan thera, incumbent of Kupikkala vihara, who fed the exiled king Vattagamani Abhaya and received the new Abhayagiri-vihara in trust in the 1st century BCE.
Kupo Patera
Kupo Patera is a 100-km-wide volcanic depression (patera) on Venus at 41.9°S, 195.5°E, IAU-named in 1997 for the Israelite astronomer Irena (1929-1978), with mapped lava flows in Imdr Regio.
KuppingerCole
KuppingerCole Analysts AG is an independent German technology research firm founded in Stuttgart in 2004 and headquartered in Wiesbaden, best known for its Leadership Compass vendor rankings.
Kupreanof
Mount Kupreanof, a 1,895 m eroded stratovolcano in the Stepovak Bay group on the Alaska Peninsula, has no confirmed historical eruptions but persistent fumaroles and a 2026 magmatic-intrusion unrest episode.
Kupreanof Island
Kupreanof Island is a large island in the Alexander Archipelago, southeastern Alaska, within Tongass National Forest, about 90 by 45 km with elevations near 1,200 m; distinct from Kupreanof Strait, Kupreanof Point, and Mount Kupreanof volcano.
Kuprlli
Kuprlli, also Kuprilli, was a Lycian dynast of Xanthos in southwestern Anatolia, active around 480 to 440 BC, known from his silver coins and the Xanthos trilingual inscription.
Kùr
Kùr, the Sumerian gur or Akkadian kurru, was ancient Mesopotamia's largest dry-capacity unit, used from the third millennium BCE to measure grain, beer, and foodstuffs.
Kur-Ishshak
Kur-Ishshak is the conventional modern name for the third ruler of Awan in the Sumerian King List, known only from a damaged name, ca. 2500–2400 BC.
Kura
Kura (Georgian Mtkvari, ancient Cyrus), largest river of the Transcaucasus, rises near Kars, Turkey, flows through Georgia and Azerbaijan to the Caspian; 1,515 km, Mingachevir dam, shared basin governance.
Kura - South Caspian Drainages
The Kura - South Caspian Drainages is a freshwater ecoregion (ID 434) covering all rivers draining to the southern Caspian Sea, spanning Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Turkey, and Russia.
Kura Kaupapa Māori
Kura kaupapa Māori are New Zealand state schools teaching the curriculum in te reo Māori under the Te Aho Matua philosophy; the first opened in West Auckland in 1985, arising from the kōhanga reo movement and recognized in the Education Act 1989.
Kura Oncology, Inc.
Kura Oncology, Inc. is an American biopharmaceutical company founded in 2014 that develops precision small-molecule cancer therapies, best known for ziftomenib, approved by the FDA in 2025 for acute myeloid leukemia.
Kura Sushi
Kura Sushi (くら寿司) is a Japanese conveyor-belt sushi chain founded by Kunihiko Tanaka in 1995, known for its Bikkura Pon! plate prize game and restaurants in Japan, the United States, and Taiwan.