Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve

Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Skåne, southern Sweden, designated in 2005 and covering two thirds of Kristianstad Municipality around the lower River Helge å.

Krka National Park

Krka National Park (Nacionalni park "Krka") is a 109 km² Croatian national park in Šibenik-Knin County, proclaimed in 1985, protecting seven tufa waterfalls on the Krka River, including Skradinski buk, Europe's longest tufa barrier.

Kronborg

Kronborg, the Renaissance castle at Helsingør, Denmark, built by Frederik II 1574–1585 on Eric of Pomerania's Krogen, collected the Sound toll 1429–1857 and is Shakespeare's Elsinore in Hamlet; UNESCO World Heritage site since 2000.

Kronotskiy Biosphere Reserve

Kronotskiy Biosphere Reserve (Кроноцкий заповедник), a strict nature reserve in southeastern Kamchatka, Russia, founded 1 November 1934 from an 1882 sable refuge; home of the Valley of Geysers, Uzon caldera, and part of the Volcanoes of Kamchatka World Heritage site.

Kruger National Park

Kruger National Park, South Africa's first national park (proclaimed 31 May 1926 from the 1898 Sabie Game Reserve), covers about 1.9 million hectares in Mpumalanga and Limpopo, holds 147 mammal and 507 bird species, and draws 1-2 million visitors yearly.

Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve

Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve (K2C), a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site designated in 2001 in South Africa's Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces, spans Kruger National Park and Blyde River Canyon across roughly 2.5 million hectares.

Krzemionki Prehistoric Striped Flint Mining Region

Krzemionki (Krzemionki Opatowskie) is a UNESCO World Heritage serial property in Świętokrzyskie, Poland: four Neolithic to Early Bronze Age striped flint mining sites (3900–1600 BCE) with over 4,000 shafts, chambers over 500 m², and axes traded 650 km; discovered 1922 by Jan Samsonowicz.

Ksar Douiret

Ksar Douiret is a fortified Berber granary on a butte above the abandoned old village of Douiret, Tataouine Governorate, southern Tunisia; 14th-century structure, trans-Saharan trade stop, now under ASOR-AFCP conservation.

Ksar Draa

Ksar Draa (قصر الذراع, also Ksar Dheraa) is an abandoned circular double-walled stone ksar near Timimoun, Algeria, on the edge of the Grand Erg Occidental; its builder, date, and function remain undocumented.

Ksar el Kaoua

Ksar el Kaoua (قصر كاوة), also called Ksar Kaoua, is a ruined 4th-century fortified Roman rural residence (maison forte) near Ammi Moussa in Mauretania Caesariensis, Algeria, destroyed around 370/375 in the Firmus revolt.

Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park

Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, established 1894 near Sydney, is among Australia's oldest national parks (second-oldest per NPWS, third per DCCEEW), a National Heritage-listed 14,882-hectare park with over 350 Aboriginal sites.

Kuala Lumpur Bird Park

Kuala Lumpur Bird Park (Taman Burung Kuala Lumpur), opened 15 November 1991, is a 20.9-acre free-flight walk-in aviary in Perdana Botanical Gardens, Kuala Lumpur, holding about 3,000 birds of over 200 species across four zones, Malaysia's largest bird park.

Oct 22, 2026

Kuélap

Kuélap is a monumental walled settlement of the Chachapoya culture in the Andes of northern Peru, built around 600 CE atop a limestone ridge at 3,000 m in the Amazonas region.

Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park

Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park (Kugluk, Inuinnaqtun for white water) is a Nunavut park 13 km south of Kugluktuk on the Coppermine River, protecting Bloody Falls, a 1978 national historic site with 3,000-plus years of Pre-Dorset, Thule, and Inuit archaeology.

Kuh-i Shahrak

Kuh-i Shahrak, also called Mount Shahrak, is a 2,238-meter mountain in Fars province, Iran, known for its rock-cut fire altar, published by David Stronach in 1966.

Kuhikugu

Kuhikugu is a group of defended pre-Columbian villages in the upper Xingu River basin in Mato Grosso, Brazil, built by the ancestors of the Kuikuro people.

Kujataa Greenland: Norse and Inuit Farming at the Edge of the Ice Cap

Kujataa Greenland: Norse and Inuit Farming at the Edge of the Ice Cap is a UNESCO World Heritage site (2017, criterion v) in Kujalleq, South Greenland, a five-part serial cultural landscape preserving Norse farming ruins of the 10th-15th centuries alongside Inuit sheep farms established from the 1780s.

Kuk Early Agricultural Site

Kuk Early Agricultural Site (Kuk Swamp), Upper Wahgi Valley, Papua New Guinea: 116-ha World Heritage site (2008) documenting independent New Guinea agriculture from mounded cultivation 7000-6400 cal BP and ditch drainage from 4000 BP, based on bananas, taro, and yam.

Kula-Salihli UNESCO Global Geopark

Kula-Salihli UNESCO Global Geopark is a protected geological area covering the Kula and Salihli districts of Manisa Province, western Türkiye, designated a UNESCO Global Geopark in 2015 as the country's first.

Kulakovsky

Kulakovsky: Yulian Andreyevich Kulakovsky (Юліан Кулаковський, 1855–1919), Kyiv professor of Roman literature and archaeologist of Crimea and Olbia; namesake of the Kulakovsky Barrow, a Scythian warrior kurgan excavated in 1895.

Kulangsu, a Historic International Settlement

Kulangsu, also romanized Gulangyu, is a 1.88-square-kilometer island facing Xiamen in Fujian, China. Established as an international settlement in 1903, it was inscribed by UNESCO in 2017.

Küllüoba Höyüğü

Küllüoba Höyüğü is a prehistoric settlement mound in Eskişehir Province, Turkey, occupied from about 3500 to 1900 BC and regarded as the region's oldest known city.

Kulpahar Mound

Kulpahar Mound, at Kulpahar in Mahoba district, Uttar Pradesh, is an ASI centrally protected site holding ruins of a hill palace said destroyed by the British during the 1857 mutiny, with a 2026 boundary-wall conservation tender.

Oct 22, 2026

Kumano Sanzan

Kumano Sanzan (熊野三山) is the collective name for the three grand Kumano shrines in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, major pilgrimage destinations inscribed by UNESCO in 2004.

Kumpfmühl

Kumpfmühl, a Regensburg district, hosts a Roman auxiliary fort and vicus founded about 80 AD, garrisoned by cohors III Britannorum and cohors II Aquitanorum, destroyed around 170 AD in the Marcomannic Wars, with the 1989 Kumpfmühler Schatz coin hoard; UNESCO Danube Limes site since 2021.