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Korgalzhyn Biosphere Reserve
Korgalzhyn Biosphere Reserve (Қорғалжын), Kazakhstan's first UNESCO biosphere reserve (2012), is a 1,603,171-ha steppe wetland of Tengiz–Korgalzhyn lakes, Ramsar site since 1976, with the northernmost flamingo colony and Saryarka World Heritage status.
Korkeasaari Zoo
Korkeasaari Zoo (Korkeasaaren eläintarha), Helsinki's zoo on the island of Korkeasaari, founded 1889; over 150 species, EAZA founding member (1992), non-profit foundation since 2018, new entrance building opened December 2025.
Körtik Tepe
Körtik Tepe (Körtiktepe), a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A tell in Diyarbakır, Turkey, at the Batman–Tigris confluence, occupied about 10,700–9,300 BC; over 2,000 intramural burials, round stone houses, decorated chlorite vessels, excavated 2000–2018.
Korup Rainforest Biosphere Reserve
Korup Rainforest Biosphere Reserve, Cameroon, designated by UNESCO's MAB Programme on 14 June 2023, centers on Korup National Park (1,260 km², created 1986), borders Nigeria's Cross River National Park, and is Cameroon's fifth biosphere reserve.
Korykion Antron (Parnassos)
Korykion Antron (Corycian Cave, Κωρύκειον ἄντρον), also called Sarantavli, is a Pleistocene karst cave on Mount Parnassos, 11 km from Delphi at 1,360 m, a Neolithic-to-Roman sanctuary of Pan and the Corycian Nymphs, distinct from the Cilician cave of the same name.
Kos Natural Park of Zia
Kos Natural Park of Zia (Natural Traditional Park of Zia), a small private nature and animal park at Zia village on Kos, Greece, under Mount Dikaios, with local animals, olive-oil exhibits, and sunset views; open 10:00 to 30 minutes after sunset, 6 euros adult admission.
Kosi Mound
Kosi Mound, locally called chavar, is a small ASI-protected archaeological mound near Kosi village, Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh, containing a ruined brick stupa and Kushan-to-medieval sculpture fragments, distinct from the Kosikalan town mound.
Kostromskaya
Kostromskaya (Razmennye kurgans), burial mound group near stanitsa Kostromskaya, Krasnodar Krai, Russia; excavated by Veselovsky in 1897; early Scythian 7th-century-BC grave with 22 sacrificed horses and the Hermitage's famous gold stag plaque.
Koudiat M'rakab
Koudiat M'rakab, an archaeological site in Mauretania Caesariensis (Algeria), Barrington Atlas 29 G1, where remains of a stone structure are identified as a Roman-period mausoleum; Pleiades place 285470.
Kouloures at Phaistos
Kouloures at Phaistos: large semisubterranean circular pits in the West Court of the Minoan First Palace, Crete, built in MM IIB (1850-1800 BC) and usually read as grain silos, with parallels at Knossos and Malia.
Koumasa prepalatial cemetery
Koumasa prepalatial cemetery, Minoan cemetery at Koumasa, Crete, with tholos tombs A, B, E and tomb Gamma, excavated by Xanthoudides 1904-1906 and re-excavated since 2012 by Panagiotopoulos; known for Koumasa Style pottery, Cycladic figurines, and burned burial layers in Tholos B.
Koumbi Saleh
Koumbi Saleh (Kumbi Saleh) is a medieval ruined city in southeastern Mauritania, excavated since 1914 and long identified with the Ghana Empire's capital, though that identification is contested; notable for its Friday Mosque and Columns Tomb.
Kourgaldzhin and Tengiz Lakes
Kourgaldzhin and Tengiz Lakes (Kazakh: Қорғалжын және Теңіз көлдері) are a group of shallow lakes in the steppe of north-central Kazakhstan, a Ramsar site known for the world's northernmost breeding colony of the Greater Flamingo.
Koustilya
Koustilya (Koustiliya), an archaeological site in Tozeur Governorate, southwest Tunisia, where 2017-2020 excavations uncovered a late rural Christian church with three aisles, an apse, and two fixed masonry ambons rare in the ancient Maghreb.
Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba
Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba: transboundary UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape (Togo, inscribed 2004; Benin added 2023) in the Atacora Mountains, home of the Batammariba and their takienta mud tower-houses.
Kovačevica
Kovačevica (Pleiades 501480) is an ancient road or coastal station in Bulgaria, cited as Barrington Atlas 51 B1, located near 41.709 N, 23.785 E, dated 30 BC to AD 640, distinct from Serbian and Albanian namesakes.
Kovači Memorial Cemetery
Kovači Memorial Cemetery (Šehidsko spomen mezarje Kovači) is Sarajevo's principal martyrs' cemetery, on a hillside near the city center, holding more than 1,000 graves of those killed defending the city in the 1992–95 siege.
Kovrovo
Kovrovo (Коврово, former Dollkeim), Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia: village with the eponymous flat biritual cemetery of the Dollkeim-Kovrovo (Sambian-Natangian) culture, excavated 1879 and 1992–2002, distinct from Kovrov and Kovrevo.
Kowloon Walled City Park (九龙寨城公园)
Kowloon Walled City Park (九龍寨城公園), a 31,000 sq m Jiangnan-style garden in Kowloon City, Hong Kong, opened 22 December 1995 on the demolished Walled City site, preserving the declared-monument Yamen and South Gate relics.
Koysug
Koysug (Койсуг) kurgan cemetery on the Lower Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia; excavated 1966–1974 under Maksimenko; its Maikop-Novosvobodnaya burial group (kurgan 5, Radutka) dates to the 41st–37th centuries BC.
Kozjansko & Obsotelje Biosphere Reserve
Kozjansko & Obsotelje Biosphere Reserve (Biosferno območje Kozjansko in Obsotelje), UNESCO MAB site in eastern Slovenia designated 2 June 2010, third in the country; core 140 km², buffer 360 km², transition 447 km², managed by Kozjanski Park.
Kralev dol
Kralev dol (Кралев дол) is a village in Pernik region, western Bulgaria, in the Graovo plain near Vitosha, population about 500, known for its excavated Roman villa rustica (2nd-4th century) and Markovo Kale fortress.
Kranaion Antron
Kranaion Antron (Κραναῖον Ἄντρον), the Patsos cave in Crete's Agios Antonios gorge, is an ancient sanctuary of Hermes Kranaios, attested by a 1st-century BC dedication, with cult from Minoan to Roman times.
Kraneion Early Christian Basilica
Kraneion Early Christian Basilica: a 6th-century (c. 500-520 CE) three-aisled cemetery church in the Kraneion suburb east of ancient Corinth, near the Kenchreian Gate, with a north-side baptistery, excavated by Demetrios Pallas from 1958.
Krasnopresnensky
Krasnopresnensky (краснопресненский, "of Krasnaya Presnya"): an ancient place at Barrington Atlas 23 F2 in Ukraine near Krasnoye Podol'ye, and the name of a Moscow district, its bathhouse and observatory, and a rural district in Kostanai Region, Kazakhstan.
Krasnoye Znamya
Krasnoye Znamya (Красное Знамя) is a 7th–early 6th century BC Scythian kurgan cemetery near Stavropol, North Caucasus, excavated 1973–1980 by V.G. Petrenko; nine elite mounds, an 11 m central kurgan, and an Ishtar chariot-pole find.
Krasnyĭ mai͡ak
Krasnyi Maiak (Красный Маяк, Chervonyi Mayak) is a Late Scythian biritual burial ground on the Lower Dnieper, Kherson Region, Ukraine, used first century BC to third century AD; 177 graves, cinnabar find, excavated 1975–2021.
Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow
Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow (Московский Кремль и Красная площадь), a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990: the former tsarist residence and religious center, rebuilt in 1485–1516 with 20 towers, and Red Square with St Basil's Cathedral.
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Kremlin Wall Necropolis (Некрополь у Кремлёвской стены), Soviet national cemetery on Red Square, Moscow, begun 1917 with 238 buried fighters; wall niches, mass graves, and leaders' graves beside Lenin's Mausoleum.
Kriftel
Kriftel, a municipality in the Main-Taunus-Kreis, Hesse, in the FrankfurtRheinMain region; first recorded 790 as 'Cruftera', on the Main-Lahn-Bahn since 1877, about 11,400 residents, known as the 'Obstgarten des Vordertaunus' fruit-growing village.