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Kamegaoka Square

Kamegaoka Square (亀ヶ岡広場) is a public plaza near the summit of Enoshima island, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan, with Sagami Bay views, a wood deck, restaurant, kiosk, and access via the Enoshima Escar.

Kamolot park

Kamolot park (Kamolot bogʻi), public parks in Uzbekistan named after the Kamolot youth movement; chiefly a culture and recreation park in Davlatobod district, Namangan (rebuilt 2025-2026 as Yoshlar bogʻi, 7.8 billion soum) and a theme park in Andijan, temporarily closed, rated 4.3.

Kampos Krousos

Kampos Krousos, a Roman fort on western Lesbos, Greece, at 39.11480 N, 25.95680 E; Barrington Atlas map 56 B3, Pleiades 550614, DARE 34332, de Graauw port catalogue entry 2209.

Kanaganahali Mound

Kanaganahalli Mound (Kanaganahalli), near Sannati on the Bhima river in Kalaburagi, Karnataka: an excavated early Buddhist stupa, the Adhālaka-mahācetiya, with Sātavāhana-era reliefs, Prakrit inscriptions, and a labeled Aśoka panel.

Kanakia

Kanakia (Κανάκια), Salamis: Mycenaean acropolis and harbour town in southwest Salamis, excavated since 2000 by the University of Ioannina; major urban centre of 13th-century BC Salamis, with Building Γ (750 m2), Ramesses II armour plate, identified with Strabo's ancient city.

Kanangra-Boyd National Park

Kanangra-Boyd National Park, a NSW park 180 km from Sydney, part of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area; established 1969, 74,944 ha, known for Kanangra Walls, Mount Cloudmaker, and the Six Foot Track.

Kanbula UNESCO Global Geopark

Kanbula UNESCO Global Geopark (坎布拉), in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China; designated 2025, area 314,934 ha; Maixiu volcanoes, Longwu River Triassic section, Paleo-Tethys records, Yellow River landslides.

Kandu

Kandu (カンドゥー) is a Japanese indoor job-experience theme park chain for ages 3–15, first opened 2013 at Aeon Mall Makuhari New City, Chiba; children earn the Katchin currency, with parks also in Osaka (Dainichi, 2025) and Miyagi.

Kanggye Zoo

Kanggye Zoo (강계동물원) is a zoo in the Woesan district of Kanggye, Chagang Province, North Korea, opened December 2025 with ten-odd animal houses, a science exhibition hall, and a reptile house.

Kanha Tiger Reserve

Kanha Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh (also Kanha National Park): 2,074 sq km Satpura reserve famous for saving the hard-ground barasingha (66 to ~750 animals) and for 105+ tigers, first nine Project Tiger reserves.

Kanheri Caves

Kanheri Caves: over 100 rock-cut Buddhist caves in Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai, used from the 1st century BCE/CE to the 10th century, known for Cave 3 chaitya, water cisterns, and ASI protection.

Kankali Tila, Jain and Chaubara Mound

Kankali Tila, Jain and Chaubara Mound (also Jaini Tila) is a centrally protected archaeological mound in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, excavated 1870-1896, yielding a 47-foot Jaina brick stupa, two temples, 737 artefacts, and 86 donative Jaina inscriptions.

Kannauj Mound

Kannauj Mound (Mound known as Old Fort), Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh: a centrally protected ASI archaeological mound of ancient Kanyakubja, linked locally to Raja Jaichand's fort, with PGW and NBPW finds.

Kano city walls

The Kano city walls (Hausa: ganuwa) are earthen fortifications around the old city of Kano in northern Nigeria, begun around 1095 and extended over eight centuries.

Kanovium/Conovium

Kanovium/Conovium (Canovium, Canubio), a Roman auxiliary fort at Caerhun on the River Conwy in North Wales, built c. AD 75-78, rebuilt in stone in the 2nd century, garrisoned by about 500 auxiliaries, with a vicus, bathhouse, and occupation into the 4th century.

Kantharos Limen

Kantharos Limen (Κάνθαρος, Megas Limen), the largest natural gulf of the Piraeus peninsula and Athens' main ancient commercial harbour, named for its cup-like shape; prosperous 5th–4th c. BC, reorganized after Sulla's sack, still Piraeus' principal port.

Kányavári-sziget

Kányavári-sziget (Kányavár Island) is a low, sandy island in the Kis-Balaton wetland of Zala County, Hungary, the only part of the protected area open to visitors freely.

Kaper Estuary - Laemson Marine National Park - Kraburi Estuary

Kaper Estuary - Laemson Marine National Park - Kraburi Estuary, Ramsar site no. 1183 in Ranong Province, Thailand, designated 14 August 2002; 122,046 ha of Thailand's largest remaining mangrove forests, also the Ranong UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.

Kapersburg

Kapersburg is a Roman auxiliary fort on the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes west of Rosbach vor der Höhe in Hesse, Germany, occupied from the 1st century until about AD 275.

Kapuas (protected area)

Kapuas protected areas: Betung Kerihun (816,693 ha) and Danau Sentarum (1,320 km²) national parks and protected lakes in the 1,143 km Kapuas River basin, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, conserving a freshwater ecoregion with 68 endemic fish species.

Kara-Tepe

Kara-Tepe (Qara Tepe, Karā Tappe), a Kushan-era Buddhist cave monastery in Old Termez, southern Uzbekistan, near Fayaz-Tepe; about 7 ha, over 150 Indian inscriptions, active 1st-6th centuries CE.

Karaftu

Karaftu, known locally as Qaleh Karaftoo, is a rock-cut chamber complex in Kordestan Province, Iran, bearing a Greek inscription naming Herakles from the 3rd century BCE.

Karakorum (Хархорум)

Karakorum (Хархорум, Kharkhorin), capital of the Mongol Empire in the Orkhon Valley from 1235 to 1260, founded as a city by Ögedei Khan, excavated since 1999 by the Mongolian-German expedition, abandoned in the early 15th century.

Karakuş Tumulus

Karakuş Tumulus (Karakuş Tümülüsü), first-century BC royal burial mound in Kâhta, Adıyaman, Turkey, built by Commagene king Mithridates II for royal women including his mother Isias; about 110 m wide, eagle column, damaged for Cendere Bridge.

Karamagara Bridge

Karamagara Bridge (Karamağara Köprüsü), a 5th-6th century late Roman/Byzantine single pointed-arch stone bridge over the Arapkir Çay near Ağın, Elazığ, Turkey; possibly the earliest pointed arch bridge, with a Greek Psalm 121:8 inscription, now submerged under the Keban Dam reservoir.

Karamantas

Karamantas (كرامنتس) is an Egyptian chain of indoor amusement parks, with branches inside Green Plaza Mall in Semouha, Alexandria, and in Genena Mall, Nasr City, and Family Land, Maadi, Cairo.

Karaoke Chaien

Karaoke Chaien (Chaien Karaoke - Karaoke Online) is a karaoke bar at 63 Ung Văn Khiêm, Mỹ An, Ngũ Hành Sơn district, Da Nang, Vietnam; hours 09:00-23:00, capacity 70, price 70,000-120,000 đ, phone 090 413 73 71.

Karaoke Victory

Karaoke Victory is the name of multiple unrelated karaoke bars and KTV venues across Vietnam, including Đà Nẵng, Cam Ranh, Đà Lạt, and Hà Tĩnh; the Đà Nẵng Victory KTV was raided for drug use in August 2025.

Karatau Biosphere Reserve

Karatau Biosphere Reserve (Қаратау биосфералық резерваты), a UNESCO MAB reserve designated 14 June 2017 in South Kazakhstan; 151,792 ha around the Karatau State Nature Reserve, part of Western Tien-Shan World Heritage, noted for endemic flora and Karatau argali.

Karawanken / Karavanke UNESCO Global Geopark

Karawanken / Karavanke UNESCO Global Geopark, a transnational Austria-Slovenia geopark (1,067 km², 14 municipalities, designated 2013/2015), spanning the 120 km Karavanke range on the Periadriatic Lineament, with the Podzemlje Pece lead-zinc mine and Obir caves.