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Khirbet ez-Zona

Khirbet ez-Zona (Khirbat az-Zuna) is a small late Roman castellum, about 40 x 36 m with corner towers, in Amman Governorate, Jordan, on the Limes Arabicus, occupied about AD 300 to the early 7th century and possibly garrisoned by the Cohors VIII Voluntariorum.

Khirbet Qazone

Khirbet Qazone, also known as Khirbat Qazun, is a large ancient cemetery on the southeastern shore of the Dead Sea in Jordan, serving a Nabataean community.

Khisht tepe

Khisht tepe (Khisht Tepe, Khishttepa) names several archaeological sites: an Afghan site with doubtful Kushan-script inscriptions, and a Buddhist temple in Tajikistan's Ancient Khuttal UNESCO property, inscribed 2025.

Khokhlach

Khokhlach (Хохлач), a Sarmatian kurgan near Novocherkassk, Russia, excavated in 1864 during waterworks; its gold hoard, the Novocherkassk Treasure with the famous diadem, is in the Hermitage.

Khokhrakot Mound

Khokhrakot (खोखराकोट), ancient Rohitaka, is a centrally protected archaeological mound on Rohtak's northern edge, Haryana: Yaudheya Republic capital and mint, Painted Grey Ware to Gupta occupation, coin moulds, Kushana pillar capital.

Khomina

Khomina, also known as Khomina Mogila, is a large Scythian burial mound, or kurgan, on the lower Dnieper in Ukraine, a noble burial of the late 4th century BC.

Khomyn Tal Biosphere Reserve

Khomyn Tal Biosphere Reserve, western Mongolia's Great Lakes Basin, designated by UNESCO in September 2025; 618,379 ha of desert steppe, dunes and lakes, home to reintroduced Przewalski's horses, saiga, and snow leopard, Mongolia's 12th biosphere reserve.

Khoramrud

Khoramrud (Khorramrud, Khuramrud) is a Parthian-period cemetery site in the Dailaman district, Gilan, Iran, excavated in 1960 by Tokyo University's expedition under Namio Egami; 17 looted tombs in Area A, one unlooted tomb, published in Dailaman II (1966).

Khorat UNESCO Global Geopark

Khorat UNESCO Global Geopark (Thailand's second UGGp, designated 2023) in Nakhon Ratchasima Province: 3,167.38 km² of cuestas and Khorat Group red beds, famed for dinosaur, ancient elephant, and petrified wood fossils and Home-Temple-School community management.

Khorsabad Residence L

Khorsabad Residence L: a large dignitary's residence at Dur-Sharrukin, at the foot of Sargon II's palace on the citadel, identified by a pavement slab inscription as the house of Sîn-aḫu-uṣur, grand vizier and brother of Sargon II.

Khorsabad ziggurat

Khorsabad ziggurat: temple-tower of Dur-Sharrukin, Sargon II's Assyrian capital near Mosul, founded 717 BCE. Four stories painted white, black, red, blue; 43-meter square base; disputed spiral stair.

Khrew Mound

Khrew Mound refers to protected archaeological remains at Khrew, in Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, where the Archaeological Survey of India maintains a monolithic shrine and ancient temple remains.

Khu du lịch Suối Tiên

Khu du lịch Suối Tiên (Suoi Tien Theme Park), Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City: culture-themed amusement park opened 2 September 1995 by founder Đinh Văn Vui, with a 400 m dragon, Vietnam's first themed water park, and 150+ attractions.

Khukhundu and Sajhwar Mound

Khukhundu and Sajhwar Mound is a centrally protected Ancient Site in Deoria district, Uttar Pradesh, also called Kakandi, a Jain Teerth Kshetra; protected by the ASI Sarnath Circle since 1928, covering 115.394 acres in Khukhunda and 4.429 acres in Sajhwar.

Khukhundu Mound

Khukhundu Mound: ASI-protected archaeological mound at Khukhundu village, Deoria district, Uttar Pradesh, identified with the ancient Jain tirth Kakandi, birthplace of Tirthankara Pushpdanta, with about 30 hillocks of ruins.

Khumara Hillfort

Khumara Hillfort (Khumarinskoye gorodishche, Skhimar) is an 8th–10th-century Khazar Khaganate stone fortress on the upper Kuban near Karachayevsk, Russia, with a 2 km wall, up to 19 towers, and Alano-Bulgarian garrison.

Khurha

Khurha (Khorheh) is a village in Mahallat county, Markazi province, Iran, site of a 2nd- to 3rd-century Parthian building famed for two Ionic stone columns.

Khutar Shabli

Хутар Шаблі (Khutar Shabli) is a Belarusian farmstead and open-air music venue in Malaye Zapruddze, Valozhyn district, 80 km from Minsk, founded by producer Uladzimir Shablinski and known for the Vольнае паветра ethno-festival, Druzhba Festival, and a 2013 fire and rebuild.

Khuvsgul Lake Biosphere Reserve

Khuvsgul Lake Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve designated in 2022 in northern Mongolia around Khuvsgul Lake (Hövsgöl nuur), Mongolia's deepest lake holding about 70% of the country's fresh water, covering 1,512,038 ha with 7,016 residents.

Kiakis

Kiakis (Ptolemy's Κιακίς; Ciaca/Chiaca in the Itinerarium Antoninus and Tabula Peutingeriana) was an ancient place in Lesser Armenia on the Satala–Melitene road, a Roman border fortress garrisoned around 400 CE by the Ala prima Augusta Colonorum, identified near Morhamam, Turkey.

Kid's Park

Kid's Park is a theme park in Malard, Tehran Province, Iran, near the Chaharrah-e Malard crossroads; listed in OpenStreetMap as a notable local place alongside Martyrs' Square, distinct from the Mellat Park amusement ride park.

Kids Land

Kids Land is the name of several unrelated children's businesses, most prominently a family entertainment center chain in Kuwait founded in 1993 and a British playground-equipment brand.

Kids Plaza Osaka

Kids Plaza Osaka (キッズプラザ大阪) is Japan's first full-scale children's museum, opened 10 July 1997 in Kita-ku, Osaka. Run by the Osaka Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Culture, it features Hundertwasser's Kids Town and a children's TV studio.

KidZania

KidZania (キッザニア) is a Mexican-founded chain of indoor edutainment theme parks where children role-play 90+ professions in a kid-sized city, earning kidZos currency. Founded 1997 by Xavier López Ancona; first park opened 1999 in Mexico City; franchised worldwide.

Kidzania Tokyo

KidZania Tokyo (キッザニア東京) is an indoor edutainment park in LaLaport Toyosu, Koto, Tokyo, where children aged 3-15 role-play about 100 jobs in a two-thirds-scale city, earning kidZos currency; two daily shifts, English Wednesdays.

Kielder Forest

Kielder Forest, England's largest forest, a man-made 447 sq km conifer plantation in Northumberland and Cumbria planted from 1926, producing 500,000 tonnes of timber yearly and home to most of England's red squirrels.

Kien Giang Biosphere Reserve

Kien Giang Biosphere Reserve (Khu dự trữ sinh quyển Kiên Giang), a UNESCO MAB site designated 27 October 2006 in Kien Giang Province, Viet Nam, covering 1,188,105 ha across U Minh Thuong, Phu Quoc, and Kien Luong–Kien Hai–Ha Tien, with peat swamp, dipterocarp, mangrove, coral reef, and seagrass ecosystems.

Kiftzuba

Kiftzuba (קיפצובה) is a family amusement park at Kibbutz Tzuba in the Judean Hills near Jerusalem, opened Passover 1997 for children aged 1-14, with outdoor rides, indoor play areas, Friday-Saturday public hours, and Shabbat operation.

Kigali Conference and Exhibition Village

Kigali Conference and Exhibition Village (KCEV), or Camp Kigali, is Rwanda's multi-pavilion conference and exhibition complex in central Kigali, with 12 halls, 10,000-guest capacity, opened as a temporary MICE venue during the Kigali Convention Centre's delay.

Kigali Genocide Memorial

Kigali Genocide Memorial, at Gisozi in Kigali, Rwanda: memorial and mass grave for 250,000 victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, opened 7 April 2004, built and managed by the Aegis Trust, UNESCO-listed in 2023.