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Kodomonokuni

Kodomonokuni (こどもの国, Children's Land) is a 100-hectare children's park in Aoba-ku, Yokohama, opened May 5, 1965 to commemorate the 1959 Akihito-Michiko wedding, on a former army ammunition depot site.

Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve

Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, South Africa's first UNESCO biosphere reserve (designated December 1998), Western Cape near Cape Town; 103,629 ha of fynbos mountains and sea at the heart of the Cape Floral Kingdom.

Koh Ker: Archaeological Site of Ancient Lingapura or Chok Gargyar

Koh Ker (Chok Gargyar, Lingapura) is a 10th-century Khmer Empire capital founded by Jayavarman IV, sole capital 928–944 CE, 80 km northeast of Angkor, with 76 temples including the Prasat Prang pyramid; UNESCO World Heritage site since 2023.

Koh Mound

Koh Mound: archaeological mound at Koh, Chitrakut district, Uttar Pradesh, with ruins of the old Jain Haihati Mandir and statue fragments near a hill fort; a centrally protected ASI monument (Jhansi circle), distinct from Koh Inam near Allahabad.

Kohunlich

Kohunlich is a major ancient Maya archaeological site in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico, occupied about 500 BC to 1100 AD, peaking in the Late Classic and known for the Temple of the Masks with six large stucco solar masks.

Koi Krylgan Kala

Koi Krylgan Kala (Кой-Крылган-кала, "Fortress of the Perished Rams") is a circular 4th–3rd century BC Khorezmian temple-mausoleum fortress in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, excavated 1939 and 1951–57, with a 44.4 m round central building, nine-towered ring wall, moat, ossuaries, and Khorezmian inscriptions.

Koishikawa Botanical Gardens

Koishikawa Botanical Gardens (小石川植物園), the University of Tokyo's botanical research garden in Bunkyo, Tokyo; Japan's oldest, founded as a 1684 shogunal medicinal herb garden, holding Herbarium TI specimens and Ogasawara rare-plant conservation projects.

Koishikawa Kōrakuen

Koishikawa Kōrakuen (小石川後楽園) is a strolling pond garden in Bunkyō, Tokyo, begun in 1629 by Tokugawa Yorifusa and completed around 1669 under his son Mitsukuni.

Koitelainen Mires

Koitelainen Mires (Koitelaiskaira), Ramsar Site no. 12 in Finnish Lapland near Sodankylä, designated 28 May 1974; a 48,938-ha aapa mire watershed between the Luiro and Kitinen rivers, Natura 2000 area with threatened rich-fen species and old spruce forests.

Kokoua-Odzala Biosphere Reserve

Kokoua-Odzala Biosphere Reserve (Odzala-Kokoua), a UNESCO MAB site designated in 1977 in north-west Republic of the Congo around the 1935 national park; 1,294,900 ha of lowland rainforest, savanna, and bais, holding the largest known western lowland gorilla population.

Kolmården zoo

Kolmården Zoo (Kolmårdens djurpark), opened 1965 near Norrköping, is the largest zoo in the Nordics at 1.75 km², known for the Safari gondola, Wildfire coaster, and its dolphinarium, which has been under phase-out and regulatory criticism since 2022.

Kologrivsky Forest Biosphere Reserve

Kologrivsky Forest Biosphere Reserve (Биосферный резерват «Кологривский лес»), a UNESCO MAB site since 2020 in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, protecting old-growth southern taiga around the Kologrivsky Forest State Nature Reserve, established 2006 and named after M.G. Sinitsyn.

Kolona

Kolona (Κολώνα), also Kolonna, is the archaeological site of Aegina's main settlement on a Saronic Gulf promontory: a Bronze Age trade center, earliest ranked society outside Crete, later sanctuary of Apollo with one surviving column.

Kolsai Kolderi Biosphere Reserve

Kolsai Kolderi (Көлсай көлдері) is a 242,085-ha UNESCO biosphere reserve in the northern Tien Shan of Kazakhstan, designated 2021 around the Kolsai lakes, Lake Kaindy, Schrenk's spruce forests and snow leopard habitat.

Kolyma (protected area)

Kolyma protected area: the Natural Park "Kolyma" (Природный парк "Колыма") in Srednekolymsky ulus, Sakha (Yakutia), created 2000, renamed 2006, plus Kolyma basin protected areas, the KBA lowland, and ecoregion 609.

Komodo National Park

Komodo National Park (Taman Nasional Komodo) is an Indonesian national park between Sumbawa and Flores, a 1991 UNESCO World Heritage Site protecting most wild Komodo dragons across Komodo, Rinca, and Padar islands.

Komoro City Zoo

Komoro City Zoo (小諸市動物園) is a municipal zoo in Komoro, Nagano, Japan, opened April 20, 1926 in Kaikoen castle park; Nagano's oldest and Japan's fifth oldest existing zoo, renewed for its 2026 centennial.

Komplit

Комплит (complete): poker term for the small blind calling the big blind to see the flop cheaply; also a roulette bet covering one number maximally, and a name of casinos and firms.

Kon Ha Nung Highland Biosphere Reserve

Kon Ha Nung Highland Biosphere Reserve (Cao nguyên Kon Hà Nừng) is a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve designated in 2021 in Gia Lai Province, Viet Nam, its 11th, covering 413,511 ha with core areas Kon Ka Kinh National Park and Kon Chu Rang Nature Reserve.

Konār Sandal

Konār Sandal: pair of Bronze Age settlement mounds (North and South) 28 km south of Jiroft, Kerman, Iran, in the Halil Rud valley; excavated by Madjidzadeh from 2003, occupied c. 2880–2200 BC, with chlorite workshops, sealings, and disputed geometric tablets.

Kondoa Rock-Art Sites

Kondoa Rock-Art Sites, Tanzania, UNESCO World Heritage Site (2006, criteria iii and vi): 150-450 painted rock shelters over 2,336 km2 on the Masai escarpment, painted for at least two millennia, with three art traditions and living ritual use.

Königswinter-Drachenfels

Drachenfels (Dragon's Rock) at Königswinter: 321 m trachyte hill in the Siebengebirge on the Rhine, with a 1140 castle ruin, Roman-to-modern trachyte quarries, Cologne Cathedral stone, 1836 Prussian protection, and the 1883 Drachenfelsbahn rack railway.

Konny Klub Troya

Конный клуб «Троя» (Equestrian club Troya) names several unrelated riding clubs: near Baranovichi, Belarus; in Novosibirsk's Akademgorodok; in Babai near Kharkiv; and Буковинська Троя in Revakivtsi, Ukraine, offering riding lessons, rides, and hippotherapy.

Konso Cultural Landscape

Konso Cultural Landscape: UNESCO World Heritage Site (2011, criteria iii and v) in the Konso highlands of southern Ethiopia, a 23,000 ha arid landscape of dry-stone terraces, walled paleta towns, moras, sacred forests, and waka funerary statues sustaining a 400-year living tradition.

Kophos Limen (Piraeus)

Kophos Limen (Κωφὸς λιμήν), the "Still Harbor," a Classical period harbor at Halai in the Piraeus, Attica; the shallow north-western bay of Kantharos near Eetioneia, distinct from the Kophos Limen of Torone.

Kopuatai Peat Dome

Kopuatai Peat Dome: 10,201 ha freshwater raised bog on the Hauraki Plains, New Zealand; Ramsar site 444 (1989), largest unaltered restiad peat bog, home to Sporadanthus ferrugineus and Fred the Thread moth.

Korbovo

Korbovo (Корбово), village on the right bank of the Danube near Kladovo, northeastern Serbia. Archaeological sites include Glamija Bronze Age urn necropolis (48 graves), Zbradila Vinča settlement, a Roman fort, and medieval necropoles.

Kordin Temples

Kordin Temples: three Neolithic megalithic temple complexes on Corradino Heights, Paola, Malta, dating from at least 3600 BCE; only Kordin III survives, with a unique stone-paved forecourt, managed by Heritage Malta.

Korean Folk Village

Korean Folk Village (한국민속촌) is an open-air museum and traditional-culture theme park in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, opened October 3, 1974 as Korea's first open-air museum, with about 270 relocated Joseon-era houses, craft workshops, folk performances, and historical drama filming.

Korean War Veterans Memorial

The Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, authorized in 1986 and dedicated July 27, 1995, features 19 stainless-steel statues by Frank Gaylord, a mural wall by Louis Nelson, and the 2022 Wall of Remembrance.