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Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Armed Forces

The Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Armed Forces (KPRAF), also called the Khmer People's Revolutionary Armed Forces, were the regular forces of Cambodia's Vietnamese-backed government from 1979 to 1989.

Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (គណបក្សប្រជាជនបដិវត្តន៍កម្ពុជា)

Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (គណបក្សប្រជាជនបដិវត្តន៍កម្ពុជា), also KPRP, Cambodian Marxist-Leninist party founded 1951 from the Indochinese Communist Party; ruled the People's Republic of Kampuchea from 1979 and became the Cambodian People's Party in October 1991.

Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation

The Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation (KUFNS) was a political organization founded in December 1978 that served as the vehicle for Vietnam's invasion overthrowing Pol Pot.

Kampung Baru Subang

Kampung Baru Subang (Kampung Seri Subang) is a Chinese new village in Petaling district, Selangor, Malaysia, created under the 1950 Briggs Plan during the Emergency; 315.6 hectares, 873 leasehold lots, near Shah Alam and Subang airport.

Kampung Kangkar Teberau

Kampung Kangkar Teberau (陈厝港, Kangkar Tebrau) is a hamlet in Johor Bahru District, Johor, Malaysia, founded 1844 by Kangchu Tan Kee Soon; the oldest known Chinese settlement in Johor and its administrative center 1844–1855.

Kampung Larkin Lama

Kampung Larkin Lama (old Larkin village) is a locality in Johor Bahru District, Johor, Malaysia, at 1.5024, 103.7440, known for Larkin Sentral bus terminal, hawker food, and low-cost housing.

Kamran Abbasi

Kamran Abbasi is a British physician and medical editor, editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine since 2005 and editor in chief of The BMJ since 2022.

Kamran Akmal

Kamran Akmal, born 1982 in Lahore, is a former Pakistan wicketkeeper-batter (2002-2017) who played 53 Tests, 157 ODIs, and 58 T20Is, scored 6,871 international runs, and retired in February 2023.

Kamran Badizadegan

Kamran Badizadegan is an American physician-scientist and pediatric pathologist trained at MIT and Harvard Medical School, known for optical pre-cancer detection and polio endgame modeling at Kid Risk.

Kamran Behnia

Kamran Behnia is a condensed-matter physicist at CNRS and ESPCI Paris who studies heat and charge transport in quantum materials, from bismuth to liquid helium-3.

Sep 19, 2026

Kamran Elahian

Kamran Elahian is an Iranian-born American entrepreneur and venture investor who has co-founded ten companies, including Cirrus Logic, and chairs the venture firm Global Catalyst Partners.

Sep 23, 2026

Kamran Mirza

Kamran Mirza (کامران میرزا) was a Mughal prince, second son of Babur, who rebelled against his half-brother Humayun and died in exile in Mecca in 1557.

Kamrej Mound

Kamrej Mound, Early Historic archaeological mound on the Tapi River, Surat district, Gujarat; also called Ancient Site, Kamrej. Identified with Kammoni of the Periplus; excavated 2003 by the Indian Archaeological Society; ASI-protected since 1961.

Kamsa (कंस)

Kamsa (कंस, Kaṃsa), the tyrant king of Mathura in Hindu tradition, son of Ugrasena, husband of Jarasandha's daughters, tried to kill the prophesied eighth child of Devaki and was slain by Krishna in the Mathura wrestling arena.

Kamsuan Samut

Kamsuan Samut (กำสรวลสมุทร), also known as Kamsuan Si Prat and rendered Ocean Lament, is an early Ayutthaya Thai poem considered a precursor of the nirat genre.

Kamui Kobayashi (小林可夢偉)

Kamui Kobayashi (小林可夢偉, born 1986) is a Japanese racing driver who races for Toyota in the WEC, won the 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans, and took two WEC titles.

Kamui-Huci Corona

Kamui-Huci Corona, named for the Ainu earth goddess, is a 300 km elliptical corona in Venus's southern hemisphere (−63.5°, 322.5°E), among the planet's largest coronae, with fractures confined within the crust.

Kamui: He's Behind You

Kamui: He's Behind You (うしろの正面カムイさん) is a Japanese comedy horror manga by Eroki and Shinko Konoshiro, serialized since 2020, about a ghost-seeing schoolgirl assisting a psychic.

Kamuina Nsapu rebellion

The Kamwina Nsapu rebellion was a 2016–2019 militia uprising in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killed several thousand and displaced about 1.4 million.

Kamurasi

Kamurasi, also known as Kyebambe IV, was Omukama of Bunyoro in western Uganda from 1852 to 1869, known for territorial expansion, long-distance trade, and being father of Kabalega.

Kamus-ı Osmânî

Kamus-ı Osmânî (Kâmûs-ı Osmânî) is a monolingual dictionary of Ottoman Turkish compiled by Mehmed Salâhî and published in Istanbul from 1896 to 1904, recording loanwords from Arabic, Persian, and Western languages.

Kamus-ı Türkî

Kamus-ı Türkî (قاموس تركى) is a monolingual dictionary of Ottoman Turkish by Şemseddin Sami, published in Istanbul in 1899-1900, a foundation of later Turkish dictionaries.

Kâmûsü'l-A'lâm

Kâmûsü'l-A'lâm (قاموس الاعلام) is a six-volume Ottoman Turkish dictionary of proper names in history and geography, compiled by Şemseddin Sâmi in Istanbul from 1889 and completed in 1899.

Oct 15, 2026

Kamuthi Solar Power Project

The Kamuthi Solar Power Project is a 648 MW solar photovoltaic power plant at Kamuthi in Tamil Nadu, India, built by the Adani Group and commissioned in 2016.

Kamya Panjabi (कम्या पंजाबी)

Kamya Panjabi (कम्या पंजाबी), also spelled Kamya Punjabi, Indian television actress born 1979 in Mumbai; known for Sindoora in Banoo Main Teri Dulhann, Preeto in Shakti, Bigg Boss 7, and joining Congress in 2021.

Kamyanets-Podilskyy Raion

Kamyanets-Podilskyy Raion (Кам'янець-Подільський район), a district in southern Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Kamianets-Podilskyi; enlarged in the 2020 reform by merging four raions into 15 hromadas, projected at 312,400 residents.

Kamyanske urban raion

Kamyanske urban raion (Кам'янський район), also Dniprodzerzhynsk urban raion, was a city-council district of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Kamianske; population about 240,000. It became a historical division when the enlarged Kamyanske raion was created on 19 July 2020.

Kamyanske, Dnipropetrovsk

Kamianske (Кам'янське), formerly Dniprodzerzhynsk, is a city of oblast significance in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, on the middle Dnieper 35 km west of Dnipro; founded 1750, industrial center of metallurgy, coke chemistry, and freight-car building, population about 238,000.