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Kraków
Kraków (Cracow), city with powiat rights on the Vistula in southern Poland; former Polish capital, capital of Lesser Poland Voivodeship, second city of Poland by population and area, chartered 1257, UNESCO-listed historic center.
Kraljevo
Kraljevo (Краљево), formerly Karanovac, is a city in central Serbia at the Ibar–West Morava confluence, near the royal coronation monastery Žiča, with 110,196 inhabitants (2022) across 92 settlements.
Kramatorsk
Kramatorsk (Краматорськ), city in northern Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on the Kazennyi Torets River; founded 1868 as a railway station, a heavy machine-building center (NKMZ), temporary Donetsk oblast capital since 2014, Hero City 2025, frontline city since 2022.
Krasnodar (Краснодар)
Krasnodar (Краснодар), formerly Yekaterinodar, is the administrative center of Krasnodar Krai, Russia, founded 1793 as a Black Sea Cossack host city and renamed 7 December 1920; population about 1.26 million in 2025.
Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk (Красноярск), Siberian city on the Yenisei River, administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai; founded 1628 as Krasny Yar fortress, population 1.2 million, major industrial center with severe winter air pollution and an ice-free Yenisei caused by the Krasnoyarsk Dam.
Kremenchuk
Kremenchuk (Кременчук) is a city and river port in Poltava Oblast, central Ukraine, on the Dnipro River; founded as a fortress in 1571, it remains a heavy-industry hub.
Krishnanagar
Krishnanagar (কৃষ্ণনগর), also spelled Krishnagar, is a city in West Bengal, India, and the headquarters of Nadia district, on the Jalangi river about 100 km from Kolkata.
Kristiansand
Kristiansand (formerly Christianssand) is a city and municipality in Agder, southern Norway, founded in 1641 by King Christian IV on a strict Renaissance grid (Kvadraturen). Agder's administrative center, about 119,000 inhabitants, port, Kjevik airport, Dyreparken, and Kunstsilo.
Kronstadt (Кронштадт)
Kronstadt (Кронштадт) is a Russian naval port town on Kotlin Island in the Gulf of Finland, founded by Peter the Great in 1704 as a fortress guarding Saint Petersburg, main base of the Baltic Fleet, site of the 1921 sailors' rebellion, and a UNESCO-listed district of Saint Petersburg.
Kropyvnytskyi
Kropyvnytskyi (Кропивницький), oblast capital in central Ukraine on the Inhul River; founded 1754 as Saint Elizabeth Fortress, formerly Yelysavethrad and Kirovohrad, renamed 2016 for the theater founder Marko Kropyvnytskyi.
Kruft
Kruft is a municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, near the Laacher See, with two millennia of volcanic tuff mining, first recorded in 1093.
Kruševac
Kruševac (Крушевац), central Serbian city, Rasina District center; founded 1371 as Prince Lazar's medieval capital, home of Lazarica Church and Lazar's Town; 113,951 inhabitants (2022 census), 854 km².
Kryvyi Rih (Кривий Ріг)
Kryvyi Rih (Кривий Ріг), industrial city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, center of the Kryvyi Rih Iron-ore Basin; 431 km², about 600,000 people, Zelenskyy's hometown, hit repeatedly since 2022.
Ksar el-Kebir (القصر الكبير)
Ksar el-Kebir (القصر الكبير) is a city in Larache Province, northern Morocco, on the Loukkos River, site of the 1578 Battle of the Three Kings and largely evacuated during the February 2026 Loukkos floods.
Kuala Kubu Baharu
Kuala Kubu Baharu (Chinese: 新古毛), commonly abbreviated KKB, is a town in Hulu Selangor district, Selangor, Malaysia, designed by Charles Reade as British Malaya's first planned garden town.
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia and a Federal Territory since 1974, founded 1857 as a tin-mining settlement at the Klang–Gombak river confluence; 2.1 million residents, car-oriented urban form, MRT3 Circle Line approved 2025, Local Plan 2040 in force.
Kuala Terengganu
Kuala Terengganu (كوالا ترڠݢانو), capital of Terengganu, Malaysia, a district of about 60,528 hectares at the Terengganu River mouth; city since 1 January 2008, population 251,300 (2026), known for Pasar Payang, the State Museum, and the Crystal Mosque.
Kuantan
Kuantan, capital of Pahang, Malaysia, on the South China Sea at the Kuantan River mouth; city status 2021, 324 km² council area, about 500,000 people, Kuantan Port, and recurring monsoon flooding.
Kuching
Kuching, capital of Sarawak, Malaysia, on Borneo; name means "cat" in Malay. Seat of the White Rajahs 1841–1941, occupied by Japan in 1941, city status 1988, UNESCO gastronomy city of about 628,600 people.
Kullu (कुल्लू)
Kullu (कुल्लू), also Kulu, is a Himachal Pradesh municipal council town and district headquarters on the Beas River, founded as capital in 1660, famed for Kullu Dussehra and GI-tagged Kullu shawls.
Kŭlob
Kŭlob (Кӯлоб, Kulob, Kulyab) is a city in the Khatlon region of southern Tajikistan, in the Yakhsu valley; a former Silk Road center and provincial capital, population about 107,700–214,700, with an international airport and the Hamadani mausoleum.
Kulti
Kulti, an industrial town in Paschim Bardhaman, West Bengal, on the Barakar river bordering Jharkhand; site of IISCO's Kulti works (India's first blast furnace, 1870; first steel, 1904), merged into Asansol Municipal Corporation in 2015 with 28 wards and 313,977 people (2011).
Kumagaya
Kumagaya (熊谷市) is a city in northern Saitama Prefecture, Japan, population about 194,000; a former Nakasendo post town, now a transport hub known for record heat (41.1°C in 2018) and heat-countermeasure programs.
Kumamoto (熊本市)
Kumamoto (熊本市) is the capital of Kumamoto Prefecture in central Kyushu, Japan; a government-designated city since 2012 with about 740,000 residents, known for Kumamoto Castle, groundwater, and 2016 earthquake recovery.
Kumanovo
Kumanovo (Куманово) is a city and municipality in northeastern North Macedonia, 35 km from Skopje; named after the Cumans, first recorded in 1519, site of the 1912 Battle of Kumanovo.
Kumasi
Kumasi, capital of Ghana's Ashanti Region and historic capital of the Asante Empire, is the country's second largest urban region, known for its large central market, royal heritage, and severe human-driven flood risk.
Kumba
Kumba (K-Town) is a city in the South-West Region of Cameroon, administrative capital of Meme Division and the region's largest city and economic hub, a road junction trading cocoa and palm oil with Nigeria; census 144,268 (2005), UN built-up estimate 329,340 (2025).
Kumbakonam (கும்பகோணம்)
Kumbakonam (கும்பகோணம்), Chola-era Kudamukku, is a temple city in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, with over 188 temples, the Mahamaham tank and its twelve-yearly festival, and Chola temples such as Nagesvara and Banapuresvara.
Kunming
Kunming (昆明), capital of Yunnan province on Dianchi Lake, formerly Yunnanfu; a national historical and cultural city and transport hub to South and Southeast Asia, known for mild climate, clean air, and Dianchi Lake water-pollution challenges.
Kunri
Kunri (کنری) is a town and taluka headquarters in Umerkot District, Sindh, Pakistan, famed as the "chilli capital of Asia"; its Mirch Mandi trades over 100,000 tonnes of red chilli yearly, and about 85% of the local economy depends on the chilli crop.