Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Kaduri Cactus Garden

The Kaduri Cactus Garden is a 2,000-square-meter cactus and succulent garden on the Weizmann Institute of Science campus in Rehovot, Israel, opened in 2019 and named for Hannah and Amnon Kaduri.

Kaen Makrut Botanical Garden (สวนพฤกษชาติแก่นมะกรูด), Ban Rai District, Uthai Thani, Thailand: highland garden at about 600 m, nicknamed coldest in central Siam, hosting an annual winter tulip and lily flower festival with the local Karen community.

Kaeson Youth Park Pleasure Ground

Kaeson Youth Park Pleasure Ground (개선청년공원) is an amusement park in Pyongyang, North Korea, opened in 1984 near the Arch of Triumph and rebuilt in 2010 with imported rides.

Kafa Biosphere Reserve

Kafa Biosphere Reserve: UNESCO MAB site in Kafa Zone, southwestern Ethiopia, designated June 2010 as Ethiopia's first biosphere reserve; wild Coffea arabica gene pool in Afromontane forests.

kafteryai hawreyan

kafteryai hawreyan (کافتریای هاوڕێیان) is a casino in Choman, Erbil Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, at 36.63931°N, 44.89087°E, near Asayishi Choman and mzgawti bazar mosque.

Kafue (protected area)

Kafue protected area complex in Zambia: Kafue National Park (22,400 km2, Zambia's largest, managed with African Parks since 2022) and the Kafue Flats Ramsar wetland and biosphere reserve, home of the endemic Kafue lechwe.

Kagoshima City Aquarium

Io World Kagoshima City Aquarium (いおワールドかごしま水族館), a public aquarium in Kagoshima, Japan, opened 1997; about 800 species, a 25 m Kuroshio tank with rotating whale sharks, and a free outdoor Dolphin Waterway on Kinko Bay.

Kahiltna Glacier

The Kahiltna Glacier is the largest glacier in the Alaska Range, flowing about 45 miles from Denali and Mount Foraker and serving as a major climbing route on Denali.

Kahurangi National Park

Kahurangi National Park, in northwest New Zealand's South Island, also called Kahurangi ('treasured possession'), was gazetted in 1996 as the country's thirteenth and second-largest national park at 452,002 ha, known for karst, the Heaphy Track, and great spotted kiwi.

Kahuzi-Biega National Park

Kahuzi-Biega National Park (Parc national de Kahuzi-Biega), eastern DRC protected area created 1970, World Heritage Site 1980, in Danger since 1997; 600,000 ha, home of Grauer's gorilla, co-managed by ICCN and WCS.

Kai Ka'us

Kai Ka'us (Kay Kavus, کیکاووس) names several figures: the Ziyarid prince Kai Ka'us ibn Iskandar (1021–1098), author of the Qābūs-nāma; Seljuk sultan Izz al-Din Kai-Ka'us I of Rum; a mythical Shahnama shah; and an ancient Iranian place.

Kaims Castle

Kaims Castle is the site of a small Roman fortlet on the Gask Ridge in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, with earthworks of three banks and a ditch, protected as a scheduled monument.

Kainchi Dham (कैंची धाम)

Kainchi Dham, also known as the Neem Karori Ashram, is a Hanuman temple and ashram in Nainital district, Uttarakhand, India, founded by Neem Karoli Baba in 1964.

Kaiping Diaolou and Villages

Kaiping Diaolou and Villages (开平碉楼与村落) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Kaiping, Guangdong, China, inscribed in 2007 for its fortified multi-storey village towers, built largely by returning émigrés and fusing Chinese and Western architectural forms.

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Kairakuen

Kairakuen (偕楽園) is a Japanese garden in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, built in 1842 by Tokugawa Nariaki and counted among the Three Great Gardens of Japan.

Kaisaniemi Botanical Garden

Kaisaniemi Botanical Garden (Kaisaniemen kasvitieteellinen puutarha), University of Helsinki botanic garden in central Helsinki since 1829, founded in Turku 1678, with 10 greenhouses, the 1889 Palm House, and Finland's national living plant collection.

Kaiser towers

Kaiser towers (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Türme) are German memorial towers honoring Kaiser Wilhelm I, built after his 1888 death. Key examples include the 55 m Grunewaldturm in Berlin (1897-1898, Franz Schwechten) and the Kaiser Wilhelm Tower on Wiesbaden's Schläferskopf.

Kaisersteinbruch

Kaisersteinbruch (Császárkőbánya), Burgenland, Austria: quarrying village in Bruckneudorf at the Leithagebirge, site of a 2.25 ha Roman villa at Königshof, a Lombard cemetery, a Carolingian royal court, and a 1203 Cistercian monastery.

Kakadu National Park

Kakadu National Park is Australia's largest terrestrial national park, covering almost 20,000 square kilometers east of Darwin, with Aboriginal rock art and World Heritage listing.

Kalagon/Galacum

Kalagon/Galacum, also Calacum, a conjectural Roman place name for a fort in the Lune valley, attached to Overborough in RIB and debated between Burrow-in-Lonsdale, Lancaster, and the Wyre estuary.

Kalalat 1

Kalalat 1 (Wadi Kalalat large fort) is a Roman fort and hydreuma about 8.5 km southwest of Berenike, Egypt; dated 109-111 AD by a Trajanic dedication, occupied into the later 2nd century, with Greek and Latin inscription fragments from 1997-1998 excavations.

Kalamdi, Rasulia and Kishanpur Mound

Kalamdi, Rasulia and Kishanpur Mound is the ASI-listed ancient site and Adamgarh rock shelters in Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh: Acheulian tools, Mesolithic animal-domestication evidence, painted shelters, and reported visitor footfall and revenue.

Kalba Bird of Prey Centre

Kalba Bird of Prey Centre (مركز كلباء للطيور الجارحة), EPAA-run raptor centre in Kalba, Sharjah, UAE; opened January 2014, first of its kind in the UAE and Middle East; 46 species at opening, free-flying shows, Egyptian vulture breeding.

Kalbarri National Park

Kalbarri National Park, Western Australia national park created 1963 on the lower Murchison River, 186,000 ha with an 80 km sandstone gorge, coastal cliffs, Nature's Window, and the Kalbarri Skywalk; Nanda Traditional Owners.

Kalhu ziggurat

Kalhu ziggurat: stepped temple tower at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Iraq, attached to the Ninurta temple, built or completed under Shalmaneser III, ~60 x 60 m mudbrick core, decapitated by ISIS in 2015-2016.

Kalloni

Kalloni (Καλλονή): a village in Troezenia, Argolid, with an excavated Middle–Late Helladic artisan settlement on Ayios Yeoryios hill, and a town on the Gulf of Kalloni, Lesbos, site of ancient Arisbe.

Kals

Kals am Großglockner, often called Kals, is a municipality in the Lienz District of East Tyrol, Austria, in the Kalserbach valley at the foot of the Großglockner.

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Architectural and Park Landscape Complex and Pilgrimage Park

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska Mannerist Architectural and Park Landscape Complex and Pilgrimage Park, a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape near Kraków founded by Mikołaj Zebrzydowski from 1600–1602, reproduces Jerusalem in 41 chapels and paths and still draws over a million pilgrims yearly.

Kam Pirak wall

Kam Pirak wall: a roughly 60 km rammed earth (pakhsa) defensive wall near Kumsar, Balkh Province, Afghanistan, enclosing the Balkh oasis; attributed variously to Achaemenid, Kushan, and Kushano-Sasanian builders.