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Kwahu

Kwahu, also spelled Kwawu (Akan: Okwawu), is an Akan state and traditional area in Ghana's Eastern Region, centered on the Kwahu escarpment and seated at Abene.

Kwai Chung

Kwai Chung (葵涌), Hong Kong: New Territories area in Kwai Tsing District, home of the Kwai Tsing Container Terminals opened 1972, Hong Kong's main container port, plus large public housing estates.

Oct 15, 2026

Kwai Chung Hospital

Kwai Chung Hospital (葵涌医院) is Hong Kong's main public psychiatric hospital, established in Kwai Chung, New Territories, in 1981 and redeveloped through 2028 with capacity for 1,000 beds.

Kwai Tsing District (葵青區), a Hong Kong District Council district in the southwest New Territories comprising Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi; about 495,800 residents (2021), major public housing, and the Kwai Tsing Container Terminals.

Kwaidan (怪談) (film)

Kwaidan (怪談, Kaidan) is a 1964 Japanese anthology horror film by Masaki Kobayashi adapting four Lafcadio Hearn ghost stories, with music by Toru Takemitsu; it won the 1965 Cannes Special Jury Prize and was Oscar-nominated.

Kwaikans Island

Kwaikans Island, once mapped as Watson Island and locally called Reject Island, is a small official-named island off the northwest side of Masset Inlet, Graham Island, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, named by George Mercer Dawson in 1878.

Kwajalein Atoll

Kwajalein Atoll is a coral atoll in the Ralik chain of the Marshall Islands, one of the world's largest, hosting the U.S. Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site.

Kwak Dong-yeon

Kwak Dong-yeon (곽동연), born 1997 in Daejeon, is a South Korean actor who debuted in My Husband Got a Family (2012) and is known for Love in the Moonlight, Vincenzo, Queen of Tears, and The East Palace; he signed with THEBLACKLABEL in 2026 and enlisted in the Army that August.

Kwaktube

Kwaktube (곽튜브) is the YouTube channel and common name of South Korean travel creator and broadcaster Kwak Joon-bin, who experiences daily life with locals abroad.

Sep 19, 2026

Kwaku DMC

Kwaku DMC, born Derrick Okyere Brobbey and known as King Kong Nyame, is a Ghanaian rapper from Kumasi and a central figure of Asakaa, the Kumasi-born drill subgenre.

Kwaku Dua I

Kwaku Dua I, also known as Kwaku Dua Panin, was the eighth Asantehene, king of the Asante Empire in present-day Ghana, ruling from 1834 to 1867.

Kwakwaka'wakw

The Kwakwaka'wakw, long known as the Kwakiutl, are Indigenous peoples of northern Vancouver Island and the mainland coast of British Columbia, centered on the potlatch, a ceremonial feast that served as their governance.

Kwakwaka'wakw oral literature

Kwakwaka'wakw oral literature is the spoken and sung verbal art of the Kwakwaka'wakw, Kwak'wala-speaking First Nations of northern Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland.

Kwakwaka'wakw potlatch oratory

Kwakwaka'wakw potlatch oratory is the formal public speaking in the Kwak'wala language performed by chiefs at potlatches, the ceremonial feasts of the Kwakwaka'wakw of British Columbia.

Kwakwaka'wakw Winter Ceremonial

The Kwakwaka'wakw Winter Ceremonial is the sacred winter dance season of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples of northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, centered on the hamatsa dance.

Kwale

Kwale (County 002) is a coastal county of Kenya, capital Kwale town, governor Fatuma Achani; population 866,820 (2019), known for Diani Beach, titanium mining, and high poverty.

Oct 15, 2026

Kwale Oil and Gas Field

The Kwale Oil and Gas Field is an onshore oil and gas field in Delta State, Nigeria, discovered in 1967 and operated by Nigerian Agip Oil Company.

Kwame

Kwame is the Akan day name for a male born on Saturday (female form Ama), part of Ghana's deity-based weekday naming system; variants include Kwamena, Kwamina, Kwami, and Kouamé, and its best-known bearer is Kwame Nkrumah.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah (born 1954, London) is a Ghanaian-British-American philosopher, NYU Professor of Philosophy and Law, author of Cosmopolitanism and The Ethics of Identity, NYT's The Ethicist, and 2024 Kluge Prize winner.

Kwame Brown

Kwame Hasani Brown, born 1982, American NBA center-forward; first high school player drafted No. 1 overall (Wizards, 2001). Played 12 seasons, 607 games, 6.6 PPG, 5.5 RPG; famous draft bust later traded for Pau Gasol.

Kwame Dawes

Kwame Dawes, born in Ghana in 1962, is a Jamaican poet and editor, author of some twenty poetry collections and poet laureate of Jamaica since 2024.

Kwame Kilpatrick

Kwame Malik Kilpatrick (born 1970), Detroit's 60th and youngest mayor (2002-2008), the "Hip-Hop Mayor," resigned in a 2008 perjury scandal and in 2013 received a 28-year federal sentence for racketeering, extortion, bribery, and fraud; Trump commuted the sentence in 2021.