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Khorramshahr
Khorramshahr (خرمشهر), formerly Mohammara, is a port city in Khuzestan, Iran, at the Karun-Shatt al-Arab confluence. Iran's leading commercial harbor by the 1960s, it was destroyed and occupied by Iraq in 1980 and retaken in May 1982.
Khouribga
Khouribga (خريبكة), Morocco: phosphate-mining city in Beni Mellal-Khenifra, founded 1921-1923 around OCP's Ouled Abdoun mines; city population about 214,000, province 518,610 (2024 census), elevation about 804 m.
Khujand (Хуҷанд)
Khujand (Хуҷанд, formerly Leninabad) is Tajikistan's second largest city, on the Syr Darya near the Fergana valley; ancient Alexandria Eschate, administrative center of Sughd, and a Silk Road trade hub.
Khulna (খুলনা)
Khulna (খুলনা) is a city corporation and divisional headquarters in southwestern Bangladesh on the Rupsha and Bhairab rivers. Municipality since 1884; climate-vulnerable delta city facing salinity, slums, and post-industrial decline.
Khūy
Khūy (خوی, also Khoy/Khoi) is a city and county seat in West Azarbaijan province, northwestern Iran, near the Turkish border; a historic frontier trading center, home of Šams-e Tabrizi's tomb, ruled long by the Donboli family, population 225,931 (2016).
Kidderminster
Kidderminster: Worcestershire market town on the River Stour, about 16 miles southwest of Birmingham, population around 57,000; historic centre of the British carpet industry from 1735 and birthplace of Rowland Hill.
Kiel
Kiel, historically Kilonia, is the state capital of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, lying on the Baltic Sea with about 251,000 inhabitants, a major port, and four universities.
Kielce
Kielce, a city of about 179,000 in central Poland, seat of Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship institutions; former property of the Bishops of Krakow, 19th-century railway boom town, site of the 1946 pogrom.
Kigali
Kigali, capital and largest city of Rwanda, seat of government and main economic center. Three districts, 1,745,555 residents (2022 census), 41% of national GDP, formal capital since 1962.
Kigoma
Kigoma is a port town and regional capital on Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania, terminus of the 1,248 km Central Railway from Dar es Salaam (completed 1914), gateway to Burundi and DRC, near Ujiji and Gombe.
Kikuyu
Kikuyu (Kĩkũyũ town) is a municipality in Kiambu County, Kenya, about 20 km northwest of Nairobi; 2019 census urban population 323,881, area 172.9 km², former Fort Smith, on the Mombasa–Malaba railway and Southern Bypass.
Kikwit
Kikwit, largest city of Kwilu Province, DR Congo, on the Kwilu River; colonial trade hub, city since 1970, epicenter of the 1995 Ebola outbreak (315 cases, 254 deaths), with population estimates from about 400,000 to 1.3 million.
Kilamba
Kilamba (Nova Cidade de Kilamba, Kilamba Kiaxi) is a Chinese-built satellite city about 30 km south of Luanda, Angola: 20,000 CITIC-built apartments financed by a USD 3.5 billion oil-backed Chinese credit line, inaugurated 2011, initially a near-empty 'ghost town' before price cuts filled it with middle-class residents.
Kilkenny
Kilkenny, a city in County Kilkenny, Ireland, known as the medieval capital of Ireland for its 13th-century walls, St Canice's Cathedral, and Kilkenny Castle; ranked fourth cleanest Irish town in the 2024 IBAL survey.
Killarney
Killarney (Cill Airne) is a tourist town in County Kerry, Ireland, on Lough Leane and gateway to Killarney National Park; the name also applies to communities in Ontario, Manitoba, and Vancouver, Canada.
Killeen, Texas
Killeen, Texas: Bell County city founded in 1882 as a Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad town, transformed by Camp Hood (1942), now Fort Cavazos; 2020 census population 153,095, council-manager government.
Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock is the largest town in East Ayrshire, Scotland (population about 44,000-47,000), a former railway and industrial town known for the 1812 Kilmarnock and Troon Railway, carpets, engineering, and ongoing regeneration including the £20m Pride in Place programme.
Kilwinning
Kilwinning is a North Ayrshire town on the River Garnock, home to the ruins of a Tironensian abbey founded by Richard de Morville c.1162 and regarded as the mother lodge of Scottish freemasonry; population 16,982.
Kimberley, Northern Cape
Kimberley, Northern Cape: capital of South Africa's Northern Cape, founded 1873 during the diamond rush; home of the Big Hole (215 m deep) and birthplace of De Beers, now Sol Plaatje Municipality's seat.
Kindu
Kindu (Kindu-Port-Empain), capital of Maniema province, DR Congo, on the Lualaba River; river-rail interchange with the SNCC line to Katanga, a domestic airport, about 172,000-235,000 residents, and severe transport isolation.
King Abdullah Economic City (مدينة الملك عبد الله الاقتصادية)
King Abdullah Economic City (مدينة الملك عبد الله الاقتصادية), or KAEC, is a planned economic city on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia, launched by King Abdullah in 2005.
King Edward Point
King Edward Point, South Georgia: British administrative center since 1909 and site of the BAS marine and fisheries research station (FIDS 1950–52, BAS 1969–82, 2001–present), supporting the SGSSI Marine Protected Area.
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
King of Prussia, locally KOP, is a census-designated place in Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania, 20 miles from Philadelphia, named for the King of Prussia Inn.
King's Lynn
King's Lynn (locally Lynn) is a Norfolk port town on the River Great Ouse, founded as Bishop's Lynn by Bishop Herbert de Losinga, a Hanseatic League kontor, England's third port in the 14th century, renamed King's Lynn in the 1530s.
Kingman, Arizona
Kingman, Arizona: county seat of Mohave County, founded 1882 as an Atlantic and Pacific Railroad stop, incorporated 1952. Population 32,689 (2020); located on I-40, US 93, and Route 66 at 3,449 feet.
Kingsport, Tennessee
Kingsport, Tennessee: a Sullivan County city in the Tri-Cities region, chartered 1917 as John Nolen's planned "Model City," anchored by Eastman Chemical; 55,442 residents in 2020, 57,530 estimated 2025.
Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull (Hull) is a port city on the Humber Estuary in Yorkshire, founded by Edward I's 1299 charter. Known for maritime history, high flood risk, deprivation, and current regeneration.
Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston, Jamaica: capital and largest city, founded 1692 after the Port Royal earthquake, capital since 1872. Parish 89,186 (2022); KMA 661,862 (2011); major Caribbean transshipment port (2.35m TEU 2024) and UNESCO Creative City of Music.
Kingston, New York
Kingston, New York: Ulster County seat on the Hudson River and Rondout Creek; Dutch-founded Wiltwyck (1652/1658), New York's first capital (1777), burned by the British in 1777; 2020 population 24,069.
Kingston, Ontario
Kingston, Ontario: southeastern Canadian city at the mouth of the Cataraqui River on Lake Ontario, Canada's first capital 1841-1844, home of Queen's University and the UNESCO Rideau Canal fortifications, population 132,485 (2021).