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Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area
The Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA) is a 520,000 km² conservation landscape in the Kavango and Zambezi river basins, spanning Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe and holding roughly half of Africa's savanna elephants.
Kavir Biosphere Reserve
Kavir Biosphere Reserve, Iran, UNESCO MAB site designated 1976 near Dasht-e Kavir; desert reserve of about 691,163 ha with Kavir National Park, endemic plants, and locally extinct Persian onager.
Kavkazskiy Biosphere Reserve
Kavkazskiy Biosphere Reserve (Кавказский заповедник), a UNESCO biosphere reserve in the western Greater Caucasus, Russia; created 12 May 1924, biosphere status 1979, 800,723 ha, core of the Western Caucasus World Heritage site.
Kavousi Vronda
Kavousi Vronda (Vronda, Thunder Hill), archaeological site on a 427 m ridge near Kavousi, eastern Crete; Late Minoan IIIC hilltop village (ca. 1200–1050 BC) of 20–25 houses, shrine of goddesses with upraised hands, later tholos and cremation cemeteries.
Kazachnaya Kraina
Казачная краіна is Belarusian for fairyland, the translation of German Märchenland and English fairyland. It names a Malivur theme park near Lahoysk, an Orsha children's park with a Karatkevich monument, and a children's fairy-tale book.
Kazan Zoobotanical Garden
Казанский зооботанический сад (Kazan Zoobotanical Garden), Kazan, Russia: botanical garden founded 1806 by Karl Fuchs at Kazan University, merged with the city zoo in 1931; oldest in Russia, EAZA member, two territories.
Kazane Höyük
Kazane Höyük, a Bronze Age city mound near Şanlıurfa, Turkey, at the northern Harran plain; occupied from ca. 6000 BC, it grew to 100 ha by the mid-third millennium BC.
Kazerun
Kazerun (Kāzarun; کازرون) is a city in Fars province, Iran, west of Shiraz, known for the nearby ruins of Bishapur and as the medieval center of the Kāzaruniya Sufi order founded by Abu Esḥāq Kāzaruni.
Kazhuveli Bird Sanctuary
Kazhuveli Bird Sanctuary, a 5,151.6 ha brackish lake in Villupuram district, Tamil Nadu, India; the state's 16th bird sanctuary (2021) and Ramsar site no. 2548 (16 January 2024), on the Central Asian Flyway.
Kaziranga National Park (কাজিৰঙা ৰাষ্ট্ৰীয় উদ্যান)
Kaziranga National Park (কাজিৰঙা ৰাষ্ট্ৰীয় উদ্যান), a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Assam, India, holds the world's largest greater one-horned rhinoceros population, high tiger density, and faces poaching, floods, and highway threats.
Kebumen UNESCO Global Geopark
Kebumen UNESCO Global Geopark (Geopark Kebumen, theme "The Glowing Mother Earth of Java") in Kebumen Regency, Central Java, Indonesia; a 2018 national geopark renamed 2023 and granted UNESCO status in 2025, known for Cretaceous subduction evidence at Karangsambung and Karangbolong karst.
Kedrovaya Pad Biosphere Reserve
Kedrovaya Pad (Кедровая Падь) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve and zapovednik in Primorsky Krai, Russia, founded 1916, the Russian Far East's oldest reserve, protecting South Ussuri taiga and the Amur leopard, area 18,044.8 ha.
Kefalonia-Ithaca UNESCO Global Geopark
Kefalonia-Ithaca UNESCO Global Geopark, a Greek Ionian island geopark designated in 2022, spans 300,600 ha including Kefalonia and Ithaca; known for Mount Aenos (1,628 m), the Argostoli sinkholes to Karavomilos karst system, and Europe's highest seismicity.
Keibul Lamjao National Park
Keibul Lamjao National Park, Manipur, India: the world's only floating national park, 40 km² on Loktak Lake's phumdis, last home of the endangered Sangai deer, threatened by the Ithai barrage.
Keketuohai UNESCO Global Geopark
Keketuohai UNESCO Global Geopark (可可托海), Xinjiang, China, designated 2017; 2,337.90 km² on the Altai Mountains' south slope, 1,072–3,234 m. Known as "China's Yosemite" for granite peaks, the 1933 Fuyun M8 fault, and the No. 3 pegmatite rare-metal deposit.
Kelamantia
Kelamantia (Celemantia, Kelemantia), Roman fort on the Danube's left bank at Iža, Slovakia, bridgehead of Brigetio; built under Marcus Aurelius, rebuilt in stone, abandoned after Valentinian I, now a UNESCO Danube Limes site.
Kelasuri Wall
The Kelasuri Wall, also known as the Great Abkhazian Wall, is a medieval fortification in Abkhazia about 80 km long, among the world's longest defensive walls.
Kelermes
Kelermes (Келермес) is a group of rich 6th-century BC Scythian-period kurgans near Kelermesskaya in Adygea, Russia, excavated by Veselovsky 1903-04, known for horse sacrifices, goldwork, and the Kelermes mirror.
Kelsborrow Castle
Kelsborrow Castle: Iron Age univallate promontory fort on Castle Hill, Kelsall, Cheshire; scheduled monument 1013294; 400 m bank, timber-revetted rampart, radiocarbon dated 1000-840 BC.
Kemaman Zoo & Recreation Park
Kemaman Zoo & Recreation Park (Taman Rekreasi dan Zoo Kemaman, TRZK), also Zoo Kemaman, is a Kemaman Municipal Council zoo in Kampung Ibok, Terengganu, opened 2009; the only zoo on Peninsular Malaysia's East Coast, 35 acres, 54 species, firefly tours.
Kenai Fjords National Park
Kenai Fjords National Park, near Seward, Alaska, is a 1980 ANILCA park of over 600,000 acres centered on the Harding Icefield, 38 outflowing glaciers, tidewater fjords, and the road-accessible Exit Glacier.
Kenilworth Castle
Kenilworth Castle: ruined medieval and Tudor castle in Warwickshire, England, founded in the 1120s by Geoffrey de Clinton, royal for centuries, site of the 1266 six-month siege, and Robert Dudley's Elizabethan palace for Elizabeth I.
Kenk Boğazı
Kenk Boğazı (Kenk Gorge) is an Euphrates cliff site in Gaziantep Province, Turkey, bearing a destroyed Neo-Assyrian rock relief and inscription of Shalmaneser III (857-856 BC) commemorating his defeat of Ahuni of Bit-Adini, distinct from the nearby Karasu relief.
Kennecott, Alaska
Kennecott, Alaska (also Kennicott): abandoned copper-mining company town in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park; mined 1901-1938, produced 591,535 short tons of copper, now a National Historic Landmark tourist site.
Kennywood
Kennywood is a historic amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, founded in 1898 as a trolley park, a National Historic Landmark since 1987, known for the Jack Rabbit, Thunderbolt, Phantom's Revenge, and Steel Curtain coasters.
Kenozersky Biosphere Reserve
Kenozersky Biosphere Reserve (Kenozersky BR), a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site designated in 2004 in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, covering Kenozero National Park, a taiga lake landscape with wooden churches, inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2024.
Kensington Gardens
Kensington Gardens, a Grade I registered Royal Park of about 112 ha west of Hyde Park, London, created in 1689 for Kensington Palace and reshaped by Charles Bridgeman, home to the Serpentine, Albert Memorial, Peter Pan statue, and Diana Memorial Playground.
Kentucky Kingdom
Kentucky Kingdom (Hurricane Bay water park), Louisville theme park on Kentucky Exposition Center grounds; opened 1987, Six Flags era to 2009, reopened 2014 under Ed Hart, Herschend operator since 2021; 67 acres, 70+ rides, six coasters.
Keoladeo National Park (केवलादेव राष्ट्रीय उद्यान)
Keoladeo National Park (केवलादेव राष्ट्रीय उद्यान), formerly Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, is a 2,873 ha man-made wetland in Rajasthan, India; a Ramsar site (1981), national park (1982), and UNESCO World Heritage Site (1985) hosting about 375 bird species on the Central Asian flyway.
Kerameikos (Κεραμεικός)
Kerameikos (Κεραμεικός), the potters' quarter and principal cemetery of ancient Athens on the Eridanos river, with the Dipylon and Sacred Gate, the Demosion Sema public graveyard, and the 1938 Kerameikos Archaeological Museum.