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Joshua Tree, California
Joshua Tree, California: unincorporated Mojave Desert CDP in San Bernardino County's Morongo Basin, gateway to Joshua Tree National Park; 6,489 residents (2020), groundwater-dependent, tourism-driven economy.
Julga Bahador
Julga Bahador (جلگه بهادر, also Batur) is a region and village in Nawur District, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, at about 2,909 m elevation, populated mainly by Hazara Dari speakers living by farming and livestock.
Kake, Alaska
Kake, Alaska: a first-class Tlingit city on Kupreanof Island's northwest coast, 95 air miles southwest of Juneau. Incorporated 1912; population about 624; home to a 132-foot totem pole and the Kake Cannery National Historic Landmark.
Kalachi, Kazakhstan
Kalachi (Қалашы), a village in Yessil district, Akmola Region, Kazakhstan, near the abandoned Krasnogorsk uranium mine; site of the 2012–2015 'sleep syndrome' (Sleepy Hollow) episodes, officially attributed to modified air from flooded mine workings.
Kallstadt
Kallstadt is a wine village of about 1,200 people in the Bad Dürkheim district, Rhineland-Palatinate, on the German Wine Route. Known for the Saumagen vineyard, its 1902 cooperative, the Bismarck Tower, and as ancestral home of the Trump and Heinz families.
Kampong
Kampong (kampung in Malay and Indonesian) is a Malay word for village or small settlement across Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka; in cities it can mean informal neighborhoods lacking utilities.
Kampong Ayer
Kampong Ayer (Water Village) is a historic stilt-house settlement on the Brunei River in Bandar Seri Begawan, one of Southeast Asia's largest water settlements, with 34 villages, about 20,000 residents, and centuries of Bruneian heritage.
Kampung Baru Subang
Kampung Baru Subang (Kampung Seri Subang) is a Chinese new village in Petaling district, Selangor, Malaysia, created under the 1950 Briggs Plan during the Emergency; 315.6 hectares, 873 leasehold lots, near Shah Alam and Subang airport.
Kampung Kangkar Teberau
Kampung Kangkar Teberau (陈厝港, Kangkar Tebrau) is a hamlet in Johor Bahru District, Johor, Malaysia, founded 1844 by Kangchu Tan Kee Soon; the oldest known Chinese settlement in Johor and its administrative center 1844–1855.
Kampung Larkin Lama
Kampung Larkin Lama (old Larkin village) is a locality in Johor Bahru District, Johor, Malaysia, at 1.5024, 103.7440, known for Larkin Sentral bus terminal, hawker food, and low-cost housing.
Karakuwa
Karakuwa (唐桑町) was a fishing town on the Karakuwa Peninsula in Motoyoshi District, Miyagi, Japan; founded 1955, merged into Kesennuma City on March 31, 2006, and heavily struck by the 2011 tsunami.
Katonah, New York
Katonah, New York: a hamlet in the Town of Bedford, northern Westchester County, on the Metro-North Harlem Line. Known as "the village that moved," it relocated about 55 buildings in the 1890s for the New Croton Reservoir.
Katunci
Katunci (Катунци, Katunica, Katunitza) is a village in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria, near Melnik, with a 4th-6th century early Christian basilica, a 1365 Byzantine record, and Ottoman defter attestations of 1454/55 and 1569/70.
Kausani (कौसानी)
Kausani (कौसानी), also called the Switzerland of India, is a 1,890 m hill station in Bageshwar district, Uttarakhand, known for Himalayan panoramas, Gandhi's 1929 Anasakti Yoga stay at Anasakti Ashram, and as poet Sumitranandan Pant's birthplace.
Kayaköy
Kayaköy, in Greek Levissi (Λειβίσσι), is a mostly abandoned village in Muğla Province, southwestern Turkey, whose roofless stone houses were left empty by the 1923 Greco-Turkish population exchange.
Keflavík
Keflavík, Icelandic town on the Reykjanes Peninsula, home of Keflavík International Airport and a NATO base 1951-2006; trading post from 1590, merged with Njarðvík and Hafnir into Reykjanesbær in 1994.
Kemel
Kemel, a village in Heidenrod, Hesse, Germany, on the western Taunus; site of a Roman Limes fort (Kastell Kemel, about 0.7 ha, garrisoned by a numerus) and a World Heritage component, first recorded in 812.
Kennett, California
Kennett, California (Wintu: Munuktsiraw) was a copper and gold mining boomtown in Shasta County, disincorporated in 1931 and submerged about 400 feet under Shasta Lake by 1944 after Shasta Dam's construction.
Keston
Keston is a village on the southern edge of Greater London in the London Borough of Bromley, formerly part of Kent until 1965, known for its Iron Age hillfort and Roman villa.
Khajjiar
Khajjiar, a saucer-shaped meadow plateau in Chamba district, Himachal Pradesh, about 24 km from Dalhousie at 6,500 ft; designated 'Mini Switzerland of India' by Swiss envoy Willy P. Blazer on 7 July 1992, with a central lake and Khajji Nag temple.
Khao Lak (เขาหลัก)
Khao Lak (เขาหลัก), a beach-resort strip in Takua Pa District, Phang Nga Province, Thailand, near Khao Lak–Lam Ru National Park; worst hit by the 2004 tsunami, now a quiet dive gateway to the Similan and Surin Islands.
Khaybar
Khaybar (خيبر) is a historic oasis in northwest Saudi Arabia near Harrat Khaybar volcano, known for a Bronze Age rampart (2250–1950 BCE), the fortified town al-Natah, and early Islamic dams and mosques.
Khutor
Khutor (Russian хутор, Ukrainian хутір): a single-homestead rural settlement of Eastern Europe, promoted by the Stolypin reforms and largely eliminated by Soviet collectivization and 1939 resettlement decrees.
Kietrz
Kietrz, German Ketsch, a town in Opole Voivodeship, Poland, home of the prehistoric multicultural burial ground with over 4,000 graves, the largest Bronze Age and early Iron Age necropolis in Central Europe.
Kihikihi
Kihikihi, Waikato township 4 km southeast of Te Awamutu, Waipa District, New Zealand; former Ngāti Maniapoto settlement, name means cicada; home of Kihikihi Polo Club, founded 1892, Savile Cup winners.
Kijong-dong (기정동)
Kijong-dong (기정동), or Peace Village, is North Korea's model village in the DMZ near Panmunjom, facing Daeseong-dong; called Propaganda Village abroad, it has a 160 m flagpole, disputed residency, and former loudspeaker broadcasts.
Kimito
Kimito (Finnish: Kemiö) was a municipality in Southwest Finland, named after Finland's largest coastal island, that merged with Dragsfjärd and Västanfjärd in 2009 to form Kimitoön.
Kings Worthy
Kings Worthy, Hampshire: civil parish in the Winchester district about 3.7 miles north of Winchester, population about 4,435, covering Kings Worthy and Abbots Worthy villages, with Iron Age, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon archaeology including the Worthy Park cemetery.
Kinvara
Kinvara (Cinn Mhara) is a harbour village of about 721 people on south Galway Bay, gateway to the Burren, known for Dunguaire Castle, Galway Hooker boat heritage, and the Cruinniú na mBad festival.
Kipawa
Kipawa: lake (~300 km²), river, municipality (~545 people), dam, and ZEC in Témiscamingue, Quebec. Algonquin for 'it is closed'; dam built early 1910s, transferred to Quebec 2007, safety rebuild planned.