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Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern, a city of about 100,000 in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, named after the Lauter river; imperial palace under Barbarossa, Speyer town rights 1276, former Palatinate industrial center, university city since 1970.
Kaisersteinbruch
Kaisersteinbruch (Császárkőbánya), Burgenland, Austria: quarrying village in Bruckneudorf at the Leithagebirge, site of a 2.25 ha Roman villa at Königshof, a Lombard cemetery, a Carolingian royal court, and a 1203 Cistercian monastery.
Kaitaia
Kaitaia (Kaitāia) is the main town of the Far North district, Northland, New Zealand, in the Awanui River valley. Founded around an 1830s CMS mission, it is the gateway to Cape Rēinga, with high deprivation and the region's cheapest housing.
Kaitain Labyrinthus
Kaitain Labyrinthus: IAU-named labyrinth terrain on Titan, 196 km across at 52.37°N, 348.66°W in Aaru; named for the Dune capital planet, approved October 8, 2014.
Kaithal
Kaithal (कैथल), also Kapisthala, is a city and district in northwestern Haryana, India, created from Kurukshetra district in 1989; known for the Razia Sultan tomb, Bhai Sikh rulers, and basmati rice trade.
Kaiwan Fluctus
Kaiwan Fluctus is a 1,200-km-diameter lava flow field (fluctus) on Venus at 45.5 degrees S, 358 degrees E, east of Lavinia Planitia; IAU named 1991 for an Ethiopian earth mother.
Kaiyuan, Yunnan
Kaiyuan (开远) is a county-level city in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in southeastern Yunnan, China, which grew from a Yunnan–Vietnam Railway town into a coal-and-energy industrial center.
Kajang
Kajang, a town and mukim in Hulu Langat District, Selangor, Malaysia; seat of MPKj and MRT Kajang Line terminus. Known for tin-mining origins, 1,047,356-strong council population, and Sungai Langat flood management.
Kajiado
Kajiado is a county in southern Kenya, one of 47 devolved counties formed in 2010, headquarters Kajiado Town. Population 1,117,840 (2019); semi-arid, pastoralist economy; includes Lake Magadi soda ash and Amboseli dispute.
Kakabeka Falls
Kakabeka Falls is a 40-meter waterfall on the Kaministiquia River about 29 kilometers west of Thunder Bay, Ontario, the centerpiece of a provincial park established in 1957.
Kakadu National Park
Kakadu National Park is Australia's largest terrestrial national park, covering almost 20,000 square kilometers east of Darwin, with Aboriginal rock art and World Heritage listing.
Kakamega (city)
Kakamega, capital of Kakamega County in western Kenya, county headquarters and municipality; 107,227 urban residents at the 2019 census, Luhya cultural center known for bullfighting, Bukhungu Stadium, and the level 5 County General Hospital.
Kakamega (district)
Kakamega District, a former administrative district of Kenya's Western Province created from colonial North Nyanza with headquarters at Kakamega town; now Kakamega County, an agricultural region of sugarcane, maize, gold mining, and Kakamega Forest.
Kakarahata Mound
Kakarahata Mound (also Kakarehta, Kakrehta), an ASI centrally protected ancient habitation mound in Katni district, Madhya Pradesh, near the Rupnath Ashoka edict; excavated 1983-86, Mesolithic to Sunga occupation.
Kake, Alaska
Kake, Alaska: a first-class Tlingit city on Kupreanof Island's northwest coast, 95 air miles southwest of Juneau. Incorporated 1912; population about 624; home to a 132-foot totem pole and the Kake Cannery National Historic Landmark.
Kakhovka Raion
Kakhovka Raion is a district of the Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine, formed in 2020 and administered from the city of Kakhovka.
Kakinada (కాకినాడ)
Kakinada (కాకినాడ), also historically Cocanada, is a port and industrial city in Andhra Pradesh, India, headquarters of Kakinada district, known for its anchorage and deep-water ports, KG-Basin gas industry, fertilizer plants, and Smart Cities projects.
Kaknú Fossa
Kaknú Fossa, a 249-km fossa (tectonic trough) on Pluto at 30.45°S, 122.07°E, IAU-approved August 12, 2019; named for the peregrine-falcon epic hero of Chochenyo/Ohlone mythology who battled Wiwe, lord of the underworld.
Kakogawachō-honmachi
Kakogawachō-honmachi (加古川町本町), a district of Kakogawa City, Hyogo, Japan, in the central Kakogawachō address series; city formed June 15, 1950 from five municipalities, population about 252,000.
Kala Patthar
Kala Patthar ("black rock") is a 5,545–5,644 m viewpoint on Pumori's south ridge above Gorak Shep, Nepal, the classic spot to see Everest's summit, which is hidden from Everest Base Camp itself.
Kalaburagi
Kalaburagi, formerly Gulbarga, is the administrative headquarters of its district in northern Karnataka. This major city served as the first capital of the Bahmani Sultanate.
Kalachi, Kazakhstan
Kalachi (Қалашы), a village in Yessil district, Akmola Region, Kazakhstan, near the abandoned Krasnogorsk uranium mine; site of the 2012–2015 'sleep syndrome' (Sleepy Hollow) episodes, officially attributed to modified air from flooded mine workings.
Kalagon/Galacum
Kalagon/Galacum, also Calacum, a conjectural Roman place name for a fort in the Lune valley, attached to Overborough in RIB and debated between Burrow-in-Lonsdale, Lancaster, and the Wyre estuary.
Kalahandi
Kalahandi (Odia: କଳାହାଣ୍ଡି) is a district in Odisha, India, with headquarters at Bhawanipatna. Once the "rice bowl" of Odisha, it became a byword for drought and deprivation after 1980s starvation deaths.
Kalahari Desert
The Kalahari Desert is a 520,000 km² semi-arid sandy savanna basin in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa, east of the Namib; a fossil desert of fixed dunes with 100–250 mm rainfall and San occupation over 30,000 years.
Kalaipahoa Linea
Kalaipahoa Linea is a 2,400-km-wide linea (linear tectonic feature) on Venus at 60.5S, 336.5E in quadrangle V-61, named for a Hawaiian war goddess, IAU-approved in 1991, a rift zone outlining the Lada swell.
Kalalat 1
Kalalat 1 (Wadi Kalalat large fort) is a Roman fort and hydreuma about 8.5 km southwest of Berenike, Egypt; dated 109-111 AD by a Trajanic dedication, occupied into the later 2nd century, with Greek and Latin inscription fragments from 1997-1998 excavations.
Kalamaion/Kallias
Kalamaion/Kallias (also Calamaeo) is an ancient submerged harbour site between Marsa Bagoush and Ras Alam El-Rum on Egypt's northwest coast, recorded in Pleiades from Barrington Atlas map 80 inset.
Kalamata (Καλαμάτα)
Kalamata (Καλαμάτα), capital of Messenia in the southwestern Peloponnese and the region's largest city, ancient Pharai, liberated 23 March 1821, rebuilt after the 1986 M6.2 earthquake, famed for olives and its airport KLX.
Kalamazoo County
Kalamazoo County, Michigan: southwestern Michigan county organized July 30, 1830, county seat City of Kalamazoo; ninth-most populous Michigan county, 576 square miles, 261,670 people (2020), 15 townships, five villages, four cities.