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Kwang‐Un Jeong
Kwang-Un Jeong (정광운) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor of polymer-nano science and technology at Jeonbuk National University, working on liquid crystal materials.
Kwang‐Wook Choi
Kwang-Wook Choi (최광욱) is a South Korean molecular geneticist and emeritus professor at KAIST who studies Drosophila eye development, pattern formation, and organ growth control.
Kwanghee Lee
Kwanghee Lee (이광희) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, known for high-efficiency polymer and perovskite solar cells.
Kwanghun Chung
Kwanghun Chung is a professor of chemical engineering at MIT who co-invented CLARITY, a method making intact brain tissue transparent, and developed successor technologies including SWITCH, MAP, and SHIELD.
Kwangmeyung Kim
Kwangmeyung Kim (김광명) is a South Korean nanomedicine researcher known for glycol chitosan nanoparticles and cancer theranostics, and a Distinguished Professor at Ewha Womans University since 2022.
Kwangmyong (광명) (network)
Kwangmyong (광명), meaning "bright," is North Korea's government-controlled national intranet, physically separated from the global internet, with state-chosen content, monitored users, and tightly restricted outside access.
Kwango (district)
Kwango (district): an administrative district of western DR Congo, chief towns Banningville, then Kenge after the 1954 split from Kwilu; briefly a province in 1962, a Bandundu district from 1966, and the predecessor of today's Kwango Province.
Kwango (landform)
Kwango River, also called Cuango or Lucuali, a transboundary Angolan-DR Congo river and largest left-bank tributary of the Kasai in the Congo basin, about 1,100 km long, diamond-bearing, with 18 geology-controlled knickpoints.
Kwangseog Ahn
Kwangseog Ahn (안광석) is a South Korean viral immunologist and professor of biological sciences at Seoul National University, known for MHC class I antigen processing and SAMHD1 research.
Kwangyeol Lee
Kwangyeol Lee (이광렬) is a South Korean chemist who joined Korea University in Seoul in 2003, working on nanocrystal synthesis and electrocatalysts for water splitting and fuel cells.
Kwani O'Pharrow
Kwani B. O'Pharrow is an American Democratic member of the New York State Assembly from Long Island's 11th district, and a retired NYPD detective and Navy veteran.
Kwania
Lake Kwania (Kwania, Lake) is a shallow 508 km² freshwater lake in northern Uganda, part of the Kyoga Lakes complex, draining via a 20-km channel to the Victoria Nile; a key inland fishery facing flooding, fish deaths, and illegal-fishing enforcement.
Kwannon Tholus
Kwannon Tholus is a volcanic dome, or tholus, on Venus, about 135 km across, located in the Themis Regio quadrangle and named for the Japanese Buddhist goddess of mercy.
Kwantung Army (関東軍)
Kwantung Army (関東軍, Kantōgun), the Imperial Japanese Army garrison in Manchuria from 1905. Staged the 1931 Mukden Incident, created and ruled Manchukuo, ran Unit 731, and was destroyed by the Soviet invasion of August 1945.
Kwantung Government
The Kwantung Government (関東庁, Kantō-chō) was Japan's civil-administration organ for the Kwantung Leased Territory from 1919 to 1934, governing the province, policing the South Manchuria Railway zone, and supervising the South Manchuria Railway Company.
Kwantung Leased Territory
Kwantung Leased Territory (関東州, Kantōshū): leased territory at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, Russian 1898–1905, Japanese 1905–1945, principal city Dairen (Dalian); Soviet base 1945–1950, then returned to China.
Kwanyong Seo
Kwanyong Seo (서관용) is a South Korean photovoltaics researcher who joined UNIST in 2013 and is known for the first transparent crystalline silicon solar cell, reported in 2019.
Kwanzaa
Kwanzaa is a seven-day African American and Pan-African cultural holiday, December 26 to January 1, created in 1966 by Maulana Karenga after the Watts riots. Built on the Nguzo Saba seven principles and kinara candle-lighting, it is secular, celebrated alongside Christmas by about 3% of Americans.
Kwara State
Kwara State, a North Central Nigerian state created in May 1967 (formerly West Central State), capital Ilorin, 16 LGAs, borders Benin and the Niger River, known as the State of Harmony.
Kwararafa
Kwararafa, also Kororofa, was a pre-colonial multi-ethnic confederacy in the Benue valley of central Nigeria, known for cavalry campaigns against the states of the central Sudan.
Kwashiorkor
Kwashiorkor is the edematous form of severe acute malnutrition, marked by pitting swelling in children around weaning; the name, from Ghana's Kwa language, means "the sickness of the weaning."
Kwasi Boakye
Kwasi Boakye, also spelled Aquasi Boachi, was an Asante prince who trained as a mining engineer in Delft and worked in the Dutch East Indies.
Kwasi Kwarteng
Kwasi Kwarteng is a British Conservative politician and economic historian who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer for 38 days in 2022, the UK's first Black chancellor.
Kwasi Wiredu
Kwasi Wiredu (1931–2022) was a Ghanaian philosopher, founder with Hountondji of modern African philosophy, known for conceptual decolonization, Akan concept studies, and consensual democracy.
Kwaw Kese
Kwaw Kese, born Emmanuel Kofi Botwe and known as Abodam, is a Ghanaian hiplife rapper from Agona Swedru who won Artiste of the Year in 2008.
KwaZulu
KwaZulu was a bantustan, or homeland, created by South Africa's apartheid government for Zulu-speaking South Africans in scattered pieces of Natal province; it was dissolved into KwaZulu-Natal in 1994.
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is South Africa's eastern coastal province, capital Pietermaritzburg, second-largest population (12.3 million, 19.5%), isiZulu-speaking majority, the only province with a constitutional monarchy, home to Durban port and the Drakensberg.
KWB Bełchatów Coal Mine
KWB Bełchatów is Poland's largest open-pit lignite mine, located in central Poland and operated by PGE to supply the adjacent power station that produces roughly 20% of the country's electricity.
Kwebbelkop
Kwebbelkop (Jordi van den Bussche) is a Dutch-born gaming YouTuber born 1995, known for GTA V and Minecraft videos, the Robust trio with Jelly and Slogoman, and his AI-content era ended by a 2026 human-hosted relaunch; about 14.9 million subscribers.
Kweichow Moutai
Kweichow Moutai (贵州茅台) is a state-controlled Chinese distiller, listed in Shanghai in 2001, that makes Moutai, the national liquor baijiu produced only in Moutai town, Guizhou.