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Kagoshima Prefecture (鹿児島県)
Kagoshima Prefecture (鹿児島県), capital Kagoshima City, is Japan's southernmost mainland prefecture on Kyushu: 9,188 km², 28 inhabited islands, 1.51 million people (2025), Sakurajima volcano, Yakushima World Heritage site.
Kajiado
Kajiado is a county in southern Kenya, one of 47 devolved counties formed in 2010, headquarters Kajiado Town. Population 1,117,840 (2019); semi-arid, pastoralist economy; includes Lake Magadi soda ash and Amboseli dispute.
Kaliningrad Oblast (Калининградская область)
Kaliningrad Oblast (Калининградская область), also historically Königsberg Oblast, is a Russian Baltic exclave between Poland and Lithuania, created 7 April 1946, hosting the Baltic Fleet and relying on Lithuania transit and its own power generation.
Kalmar County
Kalmar County (Kalmar län), Sweden county code 08, NUTS SE213: southeast-coast county of eastern Småland plus Öland, 12 municipalities, 246,352 inhabitants (2024), capital Kalmar, predominantly rural, GDP index 74.
Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
The Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR for the Kalmyk people, created in 1935, abolished in 1943, and restored in 1957.
Kalmykiya
Kalmykiya (Republic of Kalmykia, Республика Калмыкия), a federal subject of Russia in the Southern Federal District with capital Elista; an arid steppe and semi-desert republic of 76.1 thousand km² on the Caspian Sea, home to Europe's largest Buddhist temple.
Kaluga Oblast
Kaluga Oblast (Калужская область), a Russian federal subject in the Central Federal District formed 5 July 1944; capital Kaluga, area 29.8 thousand km², population about 1.07 million (2025), industry-led economy with 12 industrial parks.
Kamchatka Krai (Камчатский край)
Kamchatka Krai (Камчатский край), a Russian federal subject formed 1 July 2007 from Kamchatka Oblast and Koryak Autonomous Okrug; capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 464,275 km², about 288,000 people, 29 active volcanoes, fishing-led economy.
Kampong Cham
Kampong Cham (កំពង់ចាម) is a central-eastern Cambodian province and city on the Mekong River. Split in 2013–2014 to create Tboung Khmum, it is a key rice, cassava, rubber, and pepper farming area with a major Mekong flood gauge.
Kampong Chhnang
Kampong Chhnang (ខេត្តកំពង់ឆ្នាំង), "Port of Pottery", is a central Cambodian province on the Tonle Sap River, 5,521 km², capital 91 km from Phnom Penh, known for pottery, rice, fishing, and the former capital Longvek.
Kampong Speu
Kampong Speu (កំពង់ស្ពឺ) is a central Cambodian province, capital Chbar Mon, about 48 km west of Phnom Penh. Known for palm sugar, Kirirom National Park, Phnom Aoral (1,813 m, Cambodia's highest peak), and 978,189 residents in 2024.
Kampong Thom
Kampong Thom (ខេត្តកំពង់ធំ) is a central Cambodian province on National Road 6, second largest by area, capital Stung Sen, home to the UNESCO-listed pre-Angkorian temples of Sambor Prei Kuk and an agro-processing SEZ.
Kampot
Kampot (ខេត្តកំពត), coastal province in southern Cambodia on the Gulf of Thailand; 4,873 km², 588,066 people (2019). Famous for GI-protected Kampot pepper (2010 Cambodia, 2016 EU), salt fields, Bokor National Park, and the Funan Techo Canal.
Kanagawa Prefecture (神奈川県)
Kanagawa Prefecture (神奈川県), south of Tokyo, is Japan's second most populous prefecture with about 9.2 million people, 33 municipalities, and three designated cities: Yokohama, Kawasaki, and Sagamihara.
Kandal
Kandal (កណ្តាល, "central") is a Cambodian province surrounding Phnom Penh on the Mekong, Tonle Sap, and Bassac rivers; low-lying rice and fishery province, flood-prone, site of Techo International Airport (2025).
Kanem Region
Kanem, a region of Chad (French: Région du Kanem) between Lake Chad and the Sahara, bordering Niger; a sparsely populated Sahelian province whose pastoral economy, medieval kingdom heritage, deep poverty, and lowest-in-Africa schooling set it apart.
Kano State
Kano State (Hausa: Jihar Kano) is Nigeria's most populous state, created 27 May 1967 from the Northern Region, capital Kano city, 44 LGAs, 20,131 km², commercial hub of northern Nigeria under Sharia law, governed by Abba Kabir Yusuf since 2023.
Kanta-Häme
Kanta-Häme (Egentliga Tavastland), Finnish region, NUTS 3 FI1C2 in Southern Finland; 11 municipalities, center Hämeenlinna; 168,957 inhabitants (2025), declining population, GDP per capita 86 (EU27=100).
Karachay-Cherkessia (Карачаево-Черкесия)
Karachay-Cherkessia (Карачаево-Черкесия), a mountainous republic in Russia's North Caucasus Federal District, capital Cherkessk; formed 1922, five state languages, resorts Dombay and Arkhyz, population about 468,600.
Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
The Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was the only autonomous republic in Soviet Central Asia, existing from 1932 to 1991 and succeeded by the Republic of Karakalpakstan.
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.
Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic (Карело-Финская Советская Социалистическая Республика)
Karelo-Finnish SSR (Karjalais-suomalainen sosialistinen neuvostotasavalta), a Soviet union republic 1940-1956 formed from the Karelian ASSR plus territory ceded by Finland, downgraded in 1956 to the Karelian ASSR within the Russian SFSR.
Karlovy Vary Region
Karlovy Vary Region (Karlovarský kraj), westernmost region of the Czech Republic with capital Karlovy Vary; three districts (Cheb, Karlovy Vary, Sokolov), 292,027 inhabitants in 2025, borders Germany, and has the Czech Republic's highest tourism share of gross value added.
Karnali Pradesh
Karnali Pradesh (कर्णाली प्रदेश) is one of Nepal's seven federal provinces, established in 2015. Named after the Karnali River, it is the largest by area, the least populous, and has its capital at Surkhet.
Karnataka (ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ)
Karnataka (ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ), also called Mysore State until 1973, is a southwestern Indian state formed 1 November 1956, capital Bengaluru, 31 districts, 224-seat Assembly, Kannada-speaking, service-dominated economy.
Kars Oblast
Kars Oblast (Карсская область) was a province of the Russian Empire in the South Caucasus, created in 1878 from Ottoman territory and held until 1918, with its capital at Kars.
Kars Province
Kars Province (Kars ili), a province of Eastern Anatolia, Turkey, bordering Armenia; capital Kars. Population 268,991 (2025), GDP per capita 42% of EU average, ranked 67th of 81 Turkish provinces in development.
Kasai Province
Kasaï Province (province du Kasaï) is a DRC province created 18 July 2015 from Kasaï-Occidental, capital Tshikapa; shaped by the 2016–2019 Kasaï conflict and the 2025 Bulape Ebola outbreak.
Kasaï-Central
Kasaï-Central, DRC province created 2015 from Kasaï-Occidental, capital Kananga, about 5.09 million people, 59,079 km², five territories, subsistence farming, artisanal diamond and gold mining, epicenter of the 2016 Kamuina Nsapu conflict.
Katanga Province
Katanga Province, former southeastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and heart of the Central African Copperbelt; divided on 16 July 2015 into Haut-Katanga, Lualaba, Haut-Lomami, and Tanganyika.