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Karapetadzor
Karapetadzor (Կարապետաձոր), also Karapetajor, is an abandoned populated place in Lori Province, Armenia, at 937 m elevation near Alaverdi; distinct from the K'arap'adzor canyon in Vayots Dzor.
Karas Mountains
Karas Mountains (Groot Karasberge), uplifted fault-bounded blocks of ~1,200 Ma metamorphic basement in southern Namibia south of Keetmanshoop; 150-200 mm late-summer rain, sheep and goat farming, Mesoproterozoic volcanic-arc terranes.
Karasu relief
The Karasu relief is a Neo-Hittite rock relief in Gaziantep Province, Turkey, showing a god standing on a stag, carved in the 10th or 9th century BC.
Karat
Karat is a German rock band formed in East Germany in 1975, best known for "Über sieben Brücken musst du gehn", later a hit for Peter Maffay.
Karat Packaging
Karat Packaging is an American manufacturer and distributor of disposable foodservice products like containers, cups, and straws, grown from a 2000 bubble tea shop and listed on Nasdaq under KRT since 2021.
Karataka Damanaka
Karataka Damanaka (ಕರಟಕ ದಮನಕ) is a 2024 Kannada action comedy drama by Yogaraj Bhat starring Shivarajkumar and Prabhudeva as conmen in a drought-hit village; titled after Panchatantra foxes, released 8 March 2024, grossing ₹2.94 crore.
Karatau Biosphere Reserve
Karatau Biosphere Reserve (Қаратау биосфералық резерваты), a UNESCO MAB reserve designated 14 June 2017 in South Kazakhstan; 151,792 ha around the Karatau State Nature Reserve, part of Western Tien-Shan World Heritage, noted for endemic flora and Karatau argali.
Karatau Mountains
Karatau Mountains (Қаратау, Black mountains): a NW-SE Paleozoic mountain range in southern Kazakhstan between the Syr Darya and Chu-Sarysu basins, up to 2,173 m at Bessaz Peak, noted for Jurassic fossils, 123 endemic plants, and the Karatau argali reserve.
Karate
Karate (空手, Karate-do) is a striking martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom on Okinawa, later spread to mainland Japan, and contested as forms (kata) and sparring (kumite).
Karate Champ
Karate Champ (空手道, Karate Dō) is a 1984 Data East/Technos Japan arcade fighting game with dual-joystick, no-button controls, half-point karate scoring, and a same-year Player vs Player edition; a genre founder.
Karate Kid (character)
Karate Kid (Val Armorr) is a DC Comics Legion of Super-Heroes martial artist from the 31st century, created by Jim Shooter and Curt Swan, debuting in Adventure Comics #346 (July 1966), with no superpowers but mastery of all galactic martial arts.
Karate Kid: Legends
Karate Kid: Legends (ベスト・キッド：レジェンズ) is a 2025 martial arts drama directed by Jonathan Entwistle, starring Ben Wang as Li Fong, trained by Jackie Chan's Mr. Han and Ralph Macchio's Daniel LaRusso; released May 30, 2025, grossing $52.4M in the US.
Karateka (film)
Karateka is a 2026 Spanish-Belgian biographical sports drama by Aritz Moreno about kata karate champion Sandra Sánchez, starring Andrea Ros and Patrick Criado; premiered at San Sebastián's Velódromo and released in Spain on 30 October 2026.
Karatepe
Karatepe, known with its neighboring mound as Karatepe-Aslantaş, is an Iron Age fortress in Osmaniye Province, Turkey, famous for its bilingual Phoenician and Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription.
Karatepe bilingual
The Karatepe bilingual, also known as the Karatepe-Aslantaş inscription, is a Phoenician–Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription of the official Azatiwada, carved at Karatepe in Cilicia in the late 8th century BC and pivotal to deciphering Hieroglyphic Luwian.
Karathey Babu
Karathey Babu (கராத்தே பாபு), an upcoming Tamil political drama-thriller directed by Ganesh K. Babu starring Ravi Mohan as R.K. Nagar MLA Shanmugha Babu, with debutant Daudee Jiwal, music by Sam C.S., produced by Screen Scene Media Entertainment.
Karatsu ware
Karatsu ware (唐津焼, Karatsu-yaki) is Japanese stoneware pottery produced around Karatsu in Saga Prefecture since the 1580s, so widespread in western Japan that pottery was once called Karatsu-mono.
Karatsuba algorithm
The Karatsuba algorithm, also known as the Karatsuba-Ofman algorithm, is a divide-and-conquer method for multiplying large numbers faster than the schoolbook method, discovered in 1960 and published in 1962.
Karavali (film)
Karavali (ಕರಾವಳಿ) is a 2026 Kannada action drama directed by Gurudatha Ganiga, starring Prajwal Devaraj, Raj B Shetty and Sampada Hulivana, set around Kambala buffalo racing in coastal Karnataka; released 24 July 2026, streaming on ZEE5 from 28 August 2026.
Karavan
Karavan is a Swedish quarterly literary magazine founded in 1992 as Halva världens litteratur and renamed in 1999, publishing African, Asian, and Latin American literature in translation.
Karawanken / Karavanke UNESCO Global Geopark
Karawanken / Karavanke UNESCO Global Geopark, a transnational Austria-Slovenia geopark (1,067 km², 14 municipalities, designated 2013/2015), spanning the 120 km Karavanke range on the Periadriatic Lineament, with the Podzemlje Pece lead-zinc mine and Obir caves.
Karay-a language
Kinaray-a, also known as Karay-a or Hiniraya, is an Austronesian regional language of the Philippines, spoken by about 600,000 people mainly in Antique province on Panay Island.
Karazhanbas Oil and Gas Field
Karazhanbas (Қаражанбас) is a heavy-oil and gas field on the Buzachi Peninsula in Mangystau Region, southwest Kazakhstan, discovered in 1974, producing since 1980, and held equally by KazMunayGas and China's CITIC.
Karazhanbasmunai JSC
Karazhanbasmunai JSC is a Kazakh oil company that develops the heavy-oil Karazhanbas field in western Kazakhstan, jointly owned by KazMunayGas and CITIC and accounting for about 2.5 percent of Kazakhstan's oil production.
Karbala (كربلاء)
Karbala (كربلاء), Iraqi holy city about 90 km southwest of Baghdad, one of the four Shiʿite shrine cities, site of the 680 Battle of Karbala, shrines of Imams Husayn and Abbas, and the Arbaeen pilgrimage drawing over 22 million visitors.
Karbala Governorate
Karbala Governorate (محافظة كربلاء), central Iraq, southwest of Baghdad; capital Karbala with the shrines of Imam Hussein and Abbas. 5,560 km², about 1.2–1.4 million people, economy of agriculture and Arbaeen religious tourism.
Karban-I
Karban-I (Карбан-I) is a kurgan necropolis on the Katun River in the Northern Altai, Russia, with Bulan-Koby culture burials radiocarbon-dated to the 2nd–3rd centuries AD and early Scythian mounds.
Karben
Karben, a town in the Wetteraukreis, Hesse, Germany, formed 1970-1972 from seven villages; name Carben first documented in an 827 Lorsch donation charter; Roman fort at Okarben.
Karbutilate
Karbutilate, also known by the trade name Tandex, is a synthetic carbamate herbicide commercialized by FMC's Niagara Chemical Division in 1968 and no longer approved for use in the European Union.
Karch Kiraly
Karch Kiraly (Charles Frederick Kiraly, born 1960) is an American volleyball player and coach, the only athlete with Olympic gold in indoor (1984, 1988) and beach (1996) volleyball, plus 2020 gold coaching the U.S. women.