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UK Space Agency

The UK Space Agency, also known as the United Kingdom Space Agency, is the government body for UK civil space policy, founded in 2010 and merged with DSIT in 2026.

The UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) is an independent non-ministerial UK government department, established in 2008 and accountable to Parliament, which safeguards official statistics through the Office for National Statistics and the Office for Statistics Regulation.

UK undercover policing scandal

The UK undercover policing scandal, also known as the spycops scandal, revealed from 2011 that Met Police undercover units infiltrated political groups, deceiving women into relationships.

UK underground rap

UK underground rap: rap made in Britain outside major-label distribution, spanning 1980s Britcore, 2010s DIY labels High Focus and Blah, and the 2023-2025 SoundCloud wave of fakemink, EsDeeKid, and Jim Legxacy, distinct from grime and drill.

UK–Ireland Interconnector (gas pipeline)

The UK–Ireland Interconnector is a natural gas pipeline carrying gas from Moffat in southwest Scotland to Ireland, first completed in 1993 and supplying most of Ireland's gas.

Oct 10, 2026

UK–Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement

The UK–Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) is a free trade agreement between the United Kingdom and Japan, signed in Tokyo in 2020 and in force from January 2021.

Ukai Dam

Ukai Dam, forming the Vallabh Sagar reservoir, is a multipurpose dam on the Tapi River in Gujarat, India, completed in 1972 for flood control, irrigation, and power.

Ukai Thermal Power Station

This coal-fired power station, operated by GSECL near the Ukai Dam in Gujarat, India, began operations in 1976 and is currently adding an 800 MW supercritical expansion.

Ukaz of 5 October 1906 on the abolition of legal restrictions on peasants

The ukaz of 5 October 1906 was an imperial decree by Nicholas II, associated with Stolypin, granting peasants equal rights in state service, residence, and passports.

Ukaz of 9 November 1906

The Ukaz of 9 November 1906 was an Imperial Russian decree letting peasant household heads claim their communal allotment land as personal property, founding the Stolypin agrarian reform.

Ukaz on Strengthening the Principles of Religious Tolerance

The Ukaz on Strengthening the Principles of Religious Tolerance (Указ об укреплении начал веротерпимости) was a 1905 decree of Nicholas II easing restrictions on Old Believers.

Oct 21, 2026

Ukemochi Corona

Ukemochi Corona is a 300-km-wide corona on Venus at 39.0°S, 296.1°E in Themis Regio, named for a Japanese fertility goddess in 1994 and classified as geologically active.

UKESM

UKESM (UK Earth System Modelling) is a UK climate modeling project run by the Met Office Hadley Centre and NERC, whose first model, UKESM1, was released in 2019.

Uketsu (雨穴)

Uketsu (雨穴), aka the Strange series author: masked Japanese horror-mystery writer and YouTuber, debut Hen na ie (2021), books in 36 languages, nearly 8 million copies, CWA Dagger-shortlisted Strange Pictures.

UKG

UKG, also known as Ultimate Kronos Group, is an American privately held company offering HR, payroll, and workforce management software, formed in 2020 from the merger of Kronos and Ultimate Software.

Ukhaa Khudag Coal Mine

Ukhaa Khudag, also known as UHG, is an open-pit coking coal mine in Umnugobi, Mongolia, part of the Tavan Tolgoi deposit, operated by Energy Resources LLC since 2009.

Ukhan

Ukhan (उखाण, plural ukhane) is a short rhyming Marathi folk couplet, traditionally recited by married women at weddings and festivals, that weaves the husband's name into verse.

Sep 19, 2026

Ukhhotep (son of Senbi)

Ukhhotep, also known as Ukhhotep I or Wekhhotep, was a provincial governor of Egypt's 14th Upper Egyptian nome during the early Twelfth Dynasty, buried at Meir.

Sep 19, 2026

Ukhhotep III

Ukhhotep III, also written Wekhhotep III, was a Twelfth Dynasty governor of Egypt's 14th Upper Egyptian nome, seated at El-Qusiya, buried in rock-cut tomb C1 at Meir.

Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh (Ухнаагийн Хүрэлсүх)

Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh (Ухнаагийн Хүрэлсүх), born 1968, Mongolian People's Party politician: Prime Minister 2017–2021, elected Mongolia's president on 9 June 2021 with 67.69% of the vote under the single six-year term rules.

Ukhta-Torzhok (Yamal) Gas Pipeline

The Ukhta-Torzhok (Yamal) Gas Pipeline (Ухта — Торжок) is a Russian trunk pipeline system carrying Yamal gas from Ukhta toward Torzhok, feeding northwestern Russia and exports like Nord Stream.

Ukhta-Yaroslavl Oil Pipeline

The Ukhta-Yaroslavl Oil Pipeline (Магистральный нефтепровод «Ухта – Ярославль») is a Transneft trunk pipeline, opened in 1974, that carries Timan-Pechora crude 1,135 km to Yaroslavl.

Ukhtanes

Ukhtanes (Ուխտանես), also Ukhtanes Sebastatsi, ca. 935–1000, was an Armenian historian and bishop of Sebastia who wrote a three-part History of Armenia around 980–982.

Uki-e

Uki-e (浮絵, "floating pictures"), also called kubomi-e, are Edo-period Japanese woodblock prints that used Western one-point linear perspective to give scenes exaggerated depth, pioneered by Okumura Masanobu.

Ukiah, California

Ukiah, California: county seat of Mendocino County, about 100 miles north of San Francisco, population 16,607 (2020). Pomo homeland, incorporated 1876, wine country hub with a municipally owned electric utility.

Ukit Kan Le'k Tok'

Ukit Kan Le'k Tok' was a Maya king who founded the dynasty of Ek' Balam in Yucatán, Mexico, reigning from 770 to about 800 CE.

Ukita Hideie

Ukita Hideie (宇喜多秀家, 1572–1655) was a Japanese daimyo and one of the Five Elders appointed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, exiled to Hachijo Island after losing the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600.

Ukita Naoie

Ukita Naoie (宇喜多直家, 1529–1581) was a Japanese sengoku warlord who rose from a ruined local family to become daimyo of Bizen Province and founded the castle town of Okayama.

Ukiyo-e (浮世絵)

Ukiyo-e (浮世絵), "pictures of the floating world," is Edo-period Japanese art of commoner life, both paintings and woodblock prints made by publisher, designer, carver, and printer, from Moronobu through Hokusai, Utamaro, and Hiroshige to Meiji artists, with major influence on European Japonisme.