Villages, hamlets, and rural localities

Kirāri Sulemānnagar

Kirari Suleman Nagar (Kirari Suleman Nagar census town), North West Delhi, India: 283,211 people in 2011, over 100 unauthorised colonies, and chronic monsoon flooding from an 88-cusec drain serving a 1,193-cusec catchment.

Kirkjubæjarklaustur

Kirkjubæjarklaustur (Klaustur) is a village in Skaftárhreppur, South Iceland, on the Ring Road at the Skaftá river crossing, site of a medieval Benedictine convent (1186 to the Reformation) and base for Lakagígar, Eldhraun, and Fjaðrárgljúfur.

Kirmond-le-Mire

Kirmond-le-Mire, a small parish in West Lindsey, Lincolnshire (Domesday Cheuremont), known for its scheduled Roman villa with a 4th-century geometric mosaic uncovered in 1975, plus a bowl barrow and 1868 model farm.

Kirovske, Crimea

Kirovske (Кіровське), formerly Islam-Terek, is an urban-type settlement and district center in Crimea, population 7,465 (2001), renamed in 1945; its district was renamed Islyamteretskyi by Ukraine in 2016.

Kiryas Joel, New York

Kiryas Joel, a village in Orange County, New York, incorporated 1977, is a Satmar Hasidic enclave coterminous since 2019 with the Town of Palm Tree; population grew from 20,175 in 2010 to 47,147 by 2025.

Kitsault, British Columbia

Kitsault, British Columbia: company town at the head of Alice Arm, also called Chandra Krishnan Kitsault, built 1979-1980 for a molybdenum mine, abandoned 1983, preserved intact, sold in 2005 for under $6 million.

Klawock, Alaska

Klawock (Lâwaak) is a first-class Tlingit city on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, population 749. Site of Alaska's first salmon cannery (1878), home of the Klawock Cooperative Association, and the island's only airport.

Kloten

Kloten (Chlotun, c. 1155) is a municipality in canton Zürich, district Bülach, home to Zurich Airport. Roman road junction with a villa rustica (c. AD 50) and a 4th-century castellum; population 18,030 in 2010.

Kněževes

Kněževes names three Czech villages: Kněževes u Prahy (Praha-západ), Kněževes u Rakovníka (městys, first mentioned 1327), and Kněževes in the Žďár nad Sázavou district (1370); the Prague-area site has major Bronze Age excavations.

Kolmanskop

Kolmanskop is an abandoned diamond-mining ghost town in the Namib desert about 10 km from Lüderitz, Namibia, founded after a 1908 diamond find and abandoned by 1956.

Koni Ghil Meros

Koni Ghil Meros (Konigil Meros) is a tourist village and water-powered paper mill near Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where the Mukhtarov brothers revived medieval Samarkand mulberry-bark papermaking in the late 1990s; it also hosts craft workshops and post-COVID rural tourism research.

Konopnica

Konopnica: name of Polish villages, chiefly one in Wieluń County, Łódź Voivodeship, with a major Przeworsk culture barrow and cremation cemetery (193 graves), and the seat of Gmina Konopnica in Lublin County; also places in North Macedonia and Wartkowice gmina.

Konso fortified villages

Konso fortified villages, called paletas, are walled hilltop towns of the Konso people of southern Ethiopia, built of dry stone and inscribed by UNESCO in 2011.

Koror

Koror is a state and town in Palau, its former capital and economic center, home to about 65% of the population on three causeway-linked islands; formerly the administrative center of Japanese Micronesia.

Korydallos

Korydallos (Κορυδαλλός) is a municipality in Piraeus regional unit, Attica, Greece, named for an ancient Athenian deme founded by Cleisthenes in the late 6th century BC on the eastern foothills of Mount Aigaleo; distinct from Korydalla in Lycia.

Koshava

Koshava (Кошава) is a village in Vidin Province, northwestern Bulgaria, on the Danube, site of the destroyed Roman fort and harbour Ad Malum (Ad Marum); a South Shetland island is named after it.

Kostyrino (Ukraine)

Kostyrino (Kostyrine, Костирине) is a village in Kerch district, Crimea, Ukraine; the former Crimean Tatar village Cyongelek, renamed in 1945 after the Tatar deportation. Distinct from Kostryna in Zakarpattia.

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Kota Batu

Kota Batu is an archaeological site and historic district about 5 km from Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, believed to be the country's capital from the 14th to 17th centuries.

Kotelnikovo

Kotelnikovo (Котельниково), town in southern Volgograd Oblast, Russia, center of Kotelnikovsky District on the Kurmoyarsky Aksai; founded 1820s, railway station 1897, liberated 29 December 1942, town since 1955; also a Roman-period cemetery site in Kaliningrad Oblast.

Kovalam (കോവളം)

Kovalam (കോവളം) is a Kerala coastal town near Thiruvananthapuram with three crescent beaches, Lighthouse, Hawa, and Samudra, a historic beach resort facing erosion and stalled tourism development.

Kowloon Walled City (九龙寨城)

Kowloon Walled City (九龙寨城) was a dense, largely ungoverned settlement in Kowloon, Hong Kong, built on a Qing garrison site excluded from the 1898 New Territories lease; it grew to about 35,000-60,000 residents in 6.4 acres of 14-storey blocks before demolition in 1993-1994 and conversion into a park.

Krakolye (Краколье)

Krakolye (Краколье, Joenperä) was a Votic and Izhorian village on the Luga River in Kingiseppsky District, Leningrad Oblast, recorded from 1654, merged into Ust-Luga in 2008.

Kruševica (toponym)

Kruševica (Крушевица) is a South Slavic toponym from kruška, pear tree, borne by villages in Serbia (near Prokuplje, Vlasotince, Raška), Croatia (Slavonski Šamac), and Bosnia (Lukavac, Ljubinje).

Krustpils

Krustpils (Kreutzburg), Latvian town on the right bank of the Daugava, first recorded 1237 with its castle; von Korff manor from 1585, railway hub from 1861, merged with Jēkabpils in 1962.

Ksamil

Ksamil (Ksamili), coastal resort town in southern Albania under Saranda municipality, near Butrint UNESCO site; about 3,000 residents swelling past 9,000 in summer, known for sandy beaches, small islands, rapid tourism growth, and infrastructure problems.

Kuldhara (कुलधारा)

Kuldhara (कुलधारा), abandoned Paliwal Brahmin village about 18 km southwest of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, emptied around 1825 with 83 neighboring villages; famed for an overnight-exodus curse legend, with water scarcity and taxation as historians' explanations.

Kumarakom (കുമരകം)

Kumarakom (കുമരകം) is a backwater village on Vembanad Lake in Kottayam district, Kerala, India, with a bird sanctuary, houseboat cruises, and Kerala's model Responsible Tourism program recognized by a UNWTO Ulysses Award.

Kumrovec

Kumrovec is a village and municipality in Krapina-Zagorje County, Croatia, on the Sutla valley border with Slovenia; birthplace of Josip Broz Tito (1892) and home of the Staro Selo open-air ethnographic museum.

Kurmaičiai

Kurmaičiai: village in Kretinga District, Lithuania (827 inhabitants, 2021), and its archaeological complex: Pilalė hillfort, barrow cemetery (5th–1st c. BC), and flat cemetery on the Akmena River; distinct from the Kurmaičiai-Linksmėnai Semigallian cemetery in Joniškis District.