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Kanyakumari district
Kanyakumari district (Kanniyakumari), Tamil Nadu's southernmost district, headquarters Nagercoil; smallest by area at 1,672 sq km, highest density after Chennai, formed 1 November 1956 from Travancore taluks.
Kanyama Chiume
Kanyama Chiume, born Murray William Kanyama Chiume, was a Malawian nationalist politician who helped lead the independence struggle and served as Education and Foreign Minister.
Kanyarat Ruangrung (กัญญรัตน์ เรืองรุ่ง)
Kanyarat Ruangrung (กัญญรัตน์ เรืองรุ่ง), nicknamed Piploy, Thai actress and model of Thai-Taiwanese descent under GMMTV, born 2000 in Bangkok; Miss Teen Thailand 2018 second runner-up, debut Blacklist 2019, 2025 Asian Academy Creative Awards supporting-actress national winner for Hide & Sis.
Kanyasulkam
Kanyasulkam (కన్యాశుల్కం, "bride price") is a landmark Telugu-language social play by Gurajada Apparao, first staged in 1892, satirizing bride price and child marriage in colonial Andhra.
Kányavári-sziget
Kányavári-sziget (Kányavár Island) is a low, sandy island in the Kis-Balaton wetland of Zala County, Hungary, the only part of the protected area open to visitors freely.
Kanybek Osmonaliyev
Kanybek Osmonaliyev (Каныбек Осмоналиев), Kyrgyz Soviet flyweight weightlifter born 1953, won 52 kg gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics with 245 kg, was world champion 1978-81, and later coached Kyrgyzstan.
Kanye West
Kanye West, legally Ye since 2021, is a Chicago-raised American rapper and producer born in Atlanta in 1977, known for chipmunk soul sampling, The College Dropout, MBDTF, Yeezus, and later antisemitic controversy.
Kanye West albums discography
Kanye West (Ye) albums discography: solo studio albums from The College Dropout (2004) through Bully (2026), plus collaborations with Jay-Z and Kid Cudi, labels, exclusives, and critical scores.
Kanye West production discography
Kanye West production discography: catalog of beats and executive-production credits by the Chicago producer known as Ye, from 1996 Grav placements and chipmunk soul on The Blueprint to Late Registration, Yeezus, Vultures 2, and Bully.
Kanye West singles discography
Kanye West singles discography: lead singles by the rapper also known as Ye, from Through The Wire (2004) and Stronger through BULLY-era releases (2024-2026), covering chart peaks, certifications and Grammy results.
Kanyi Pu
Kanyi Pu (浦侃裔; Kan-Yi Pu) is a Singapore-based biomedical engineer and President's Chair Professor at Nanyang Technological University, known as the inventor of molecular afterglow imaging nanoparticles.
Kanyinsola Ajayi
Kanyinsola Ajayi (born 2004) is a Nigerian sprinter who holds the Nigerian 100 m record at 9.84 seconds and won the 2026 NCAA 100 m title for Auburn University.
Kanykey Planitia
Kanykey Planitia, a 2,100 km volcanic lowland plain on Venus at 10S, 350E, named in 1997 after the heroine of the Kyrgyz Manas epic, wife of the knight Manas.
Kanzhun Ltd
Kanzhun Ltd is a Cayman Islands holding company providing online recruitment in China through its BOSS Zhipin app, the country's largest recruitment platform, listed on Nasdaq as BZ.
Kanzi
Kanzi (1980-2025) was a male bonobo who learned lexigram symbols and understood spoken English in Sue Savage-Rumbaugh's ape language research, matching a 2-year-old child's comprehension and later showing pretend play.
Kao
Kao (花王) is a Japanese consumer-chemicals and cosmetics group that began with Kao Soap in 1890 and now sells detergents, sanitary products, skin care, and semiconductor chemicals.
Kao Bay
Kao Bay (Kau Bay, Teluk Kao), a 470-m-deep pear-shaped silled marine basin between the northern arms of Halmahera, Indonesia; poorly ventilated, anoxic sediments, El Niño-driven deep-water renewal, glacial freshwater-lake phase, mercury and arsenic in fish.
Kao Ching-yuen (Uni-President Enterprises Corporation)
Kao Ching-yuen, also romanized Gao Qingyuan (高清愿), was a Taiwanese food-industry executive who founded Uni-President Enterprises in 1967 and built it into Taiwan's largest food conglomerate.
Kao La Ban Che
Kao La Ban Che (考拉班车, "Koala Shuttle Bus") was a Beijing app-booked commuter shuttle service founded in March 2015, merged into Didi Bus in September 2015.
Kao La Jing Xuan
Kao La Jing Xuan (考拉精选) was a fresh-grocery community group-buying platform launched in Changsha, Hunan, in 2018, incubated by supplier Xingaoqiao and founded by Tang Guangliang, reaching 4 million members by 2020.
Kao Noppakao
Kao Noppakao (Noppakao Dechaphatthanakun) is a Thai actor and singer known for leading roles in the boys' love series Until We Meet Again and Lovely Writer.
Kao Yu-shu
Kao Yu-shu (高玉树) was a Taiwanese engineer and politician who served three times as mayor of Taipei and, as transportation minister, approved the 1974 plan that seeded Taiwan's semiconductor industry.
Kaocheng fa (Zhang Juzheng's performance evaluation system)
The kaocheng fa (考成法) was a Ming dynasty performance-evaluation system for officials, issued in 1573 by Grand Secretary Zhang Juzheng and enforced through completion ledgers.
Kaocheng Method (Performance Grading)
The Kaocheng Method (考成法) was a Ming dynasty system grading officials on whether they completed assigned work on schedule, instituted in 1573 by Grand Secretary Zhang Juzheng.
Kaochong
Kaochong (考虫) was a Beijing-based Chinese online-education startup selling low-priced, live-streamed test-prep mega classes to college students, best known for its RMB 199 CET-4/6 English classes.
Kaodirichi Akobundu-Ehiogu
Kaodirichi Nkemjika Akobundu-Ehiogu, Nigerian center born 1999 in Lagos, 209 cm; played at UT Arlington and Memphis, then Tuebingen, Varese, Manresa, and Zalgiris; Nigeria AfroBasket 2025; touched 13-foot backboard top.
Kaogongji
The Kaogongji (考工记) is an ancient Chinese manual of artisanry and state craft administration, the earliest known technical document on handicraft in China, later incorporated into the Zhouli.
Kaohly Her
Kaohly Her is an American politician and the mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota, elected in 2025 as the city's first woman and first Asian American mayor.
Kaohsiung (高雄)
Kaohsiung (高雄市) is Taiwan's second-largest city and largest harbor city, a special municipality of about 2.71 million people on the Taiwan Strait, home to Taiwan's largest port, a tropical monsoon climate, and an expanding metro and light rail network.
Kaohsiung Metro (高雄捷运)
Kaohsiung Metro, also known as Kaohsiung MRT, is the rapid transit system of Kaohsiung, the largest city in southern Taiwan, operated by KRTC with Red and Orange Lines opened in 2008.