First-order subdivisions

Khouèng Savannakhét

Khouèng Savannakhét (ສະຫວນນະເຂດ), or Savannakhet Province, is Laos's largest and most populous province, on the East–West Economic Corridor, home to the Savan-Seno SEZ and Sepon mine.

Khouribga Province

Khouribga Province (إقليم خريبكة), Morocco, Béni Mellal-Khénifra region; world phosphate capital, OCP mine opened 1921, about 43% of OCP reserves, 70% of output, 518,610 inhabitants in 2024.

Khulna Division (খুলনা বিভাগ), one of Bangladesh's eight divisions in the southwest, headquarters Khulna city; 10 districts, 22,284 km², 17.4 million people (2022), the Sundarbans mangrove, and Mongla seaport.

Khuzestan

Khuzestan (خوزستان), southwestern Iranian province on the Persian Gulf and Iraq border; heartland of ancient Elam, holder of most of Iran's oil, capital Ahvaz, population about five million with a large Arab minority.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (خیبر پښتونخوا)

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (خیبر پښتونخوا, KP/KPK), formerly North-West Frontier Province, is a northwestern Pakistani province bordering Afghanistan; capital Peshawar, 40.85 million people (2023 census), PTI-governed since 2013, under federal emergency rule since October 2026.

Kigoma Region

Kigoma Region (Mkoa wa Kigoma), a Tanzanian region on Lake Tanganyika bordering Burundi and DRC; capital Kigoma; 2,470,967 people (2022 census), six districts, major refugee-hosting region with Nyarugusu and Nduta camps, agriculture-dominated economy, among Tanzania's lowest HDI regions.

Kilifi

Kilifi (county code 03) is a coastal county in Kenya, capital Kilifi town, area 12,245.9 km2, population 1,453,787 (2019 census), governor Gideon Mung'aro; agriculture-based economy with high tourism and poverty above the national average.

Kilimanjaro Region

Kilimanjaro Region, northeastern Tanzania administrative region (13,209 km²), capital Moshi, home to Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 m) and Kilimanjaro National Park; population 1,861,934 (2022), coffee-growing Chagga and Pare heartland.

Kingdom of Beni Abbas

The Kingdom of Beni Abbas (سلطنة بني عباس) was a Kabyle state in what is now Algeria, ruled by the Mokrani from the Kalâa des Beni Abbès citadel.

Kingdom of Slavonia

The Kingdom of Slavonia (Regnum Sclavoniae) was a medieval administrative unit within the Hungarian-Croatian state, formed in the mid-13th century between the Drava and Sava rivers.

Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Regno delle Due Sicilie) was a Bourbon kingdom covering southern Italy and Sicily from 1816 until annexation to the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1860.

Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic

The Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, known as the Kirghiz SSR or Soviet Kyrgyzstan, was a republic of the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1991 and predecessor of independent Kyrgyzstan.

Kirinyaga

Kirinyaga County, Kenya, a Mount Kenya region county also called Kirinyaga County, home to 610,411 people, agrarian economy of rice, coffee and tea, governed by Anne Waiguru, poverty rate 23.1% in 2022.

Kirkuk Governorate

Kirkuk Governorate (محافظة كركوك), a disputed oil-rich governorate in northern Iraq with mixed Kurdish, Arab, and Turkmen population; formerly At-Ta'mim (1976–2006), governed under Article 140, with PUK's Rebwar Taha elected governor in 2024.

Kirovohrad Oblast

Kirovohrad Oblast (Кіровоградська область), a central Ukrainian oblast between the Dnipro and Southern Buh rivers, capital Kropyvnytskyi; formed 1939, area 24,600 km², population about 902,000, major uranium reserves and black-soil agriculture.

Kirundo Province

Kirundo Province, a former province of northern Burundi bordering Rwanda, merged into Butanyerera Province in 2023; area 1,703.34 km², 7 communes, 960,267 people, once Burundi's breadbasket, now among its poorest provinces.

Kisii

Kisii (Kisii County) is a county in the former Nyanza Province, southwestern Kenya, one of 47 devolved counties under the 2010 Constitution. Capital Kisii Town; 1,266,860 people (2019 census); highland agriculture in bananas, tea, coffee, and Tabaka soapstone carving.

Kitsap County

Kitsap County, Washington: county on the west side of Puget Sound, founded 1857, seat Port Orchard. Population 283,374 (2025 est.); economy anchored by Naval Base Kitsap; cities include Bremerton, Poulsbo, Bainbridge Island.

Kitui

Kitui is a county in eastern Kenya, one of 47, sixth largest, capital Kitui town, home of the Akamba people; arid-semiarid, Mui Basin coal, agriculture 35% of GCP, Governor Julius Malombe.

Klaipėda County

Klaipėda County (Klaipėdos apskritis), one of Lithuania's ten counties in the west on the Baltic Sea, centered on Klaipėda city; seven municipalities, 5,222 km², about 322,000 residents, and the country's principal seaport economy.

Kocaeli

Kocaeli, a province of Türkiye on the Sea of Marmara with its seat at İzmit (ancient Nicomedia), is the country's industrial core: 44% of vehicle production, first-place per-capita GDP, and 19.7% of national foreign trade.

Kogi State

Kogi State, the Confluence State of north-central Nigeria, was created 27 August 1991 from Kwara and Benue States. Its capital Lokoja sits where the Niger and Benue rivers meet.

Kokang Self-Administered Zone

The Kokang Self-Administered Zone is a self-governing area of Shan State, Myanmar, created by the 2008 Constitution and populated mainly by the Kokang, an ethnic Chinese minority.

Komárom-Esztergom

Komárom-Esztergom, a county of western Hungary (HU212) formed in 1923 from the historic Komárom and Esztergom counties; Hungary's smallest county by area (2,264 km²), industrial economy, 76 settlements, population about 195,000.

Komi Republic (Коми Республика)

Komi Republic (Коми Республика), a federal subject of Russia in northeast European Russia, capital Syktyvkar, founded 1921. Resource-extraction economy (oil, gas, coal, timber), Komi-Russian bilingual republic, home of the UNESCO Virgin Komi Forests.

Koshi

Koshi (कोशी प्रदेश), formerly Province No. 1, is Nepal's easternmost province, renamed on 1 March 2023 after the Koshi River. Capital Biratnagar; 14 districts, about 25,905 sq km, population roughly 4.5-5.0 million, containing Mount Everest.

Kostroma Oblast

Kostroma Oblast (Костромская область), a Central Federal District oblast of Russia formed 13 August 1944 with center Kostroma; 60.2 thousand km², about 571,900 people (2023), depopulating Non-Chernozem region with forestry, manufacturing, and Golden Ring tourism.