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Konar Coal Mine

Konar Coal Mine is an opencast coal mine in Bokaro district, Jharkhand, India, operated by Central Coalfields Limited with proposed expansion from 4.10 to 8 MTPA.

Konark Sun Temple (କୋଣାର୍କ ସୂର୍ଯ୍ୟ ମନ୍ଦିର)

Konark Sun Temple, historically the Black Pagoda, is a 13th-century Hindu temple to the sun god Surya at Konark in Puri district, Odisha, India, built as a monumental stone chariot.

Kondinskoye Oil Field

The Kondinskoye oil field (Кондинское) is an oil field in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District, Western Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1997 and operated by Rosneft subsidiary Kondaneft.

Kone

KONE Corporation, also known as KONE Oyj, is a Finnish engineering company founded in 1910 and headquartered in Helsinki, specializing in elevators, escalators, and automatic building doors.

KONE MonoSpace

The KONE MonoSpace is a machine-room-less elevator introduced by Finnish company KONE in 1996, the first of its type, with its EcoDisc machinery placed inside the shaft.

Konecranes

Konecranes is a Finnish material handling company that manufactures cranes, hoists, and port equipment and provides maintenance worldwide. Born from KONE's crane business in 1994, it trades on Nasdaq Helsinki.

Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace

Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace is a Norwegian defense company, the largest division of Kongsberg Gruppen, known for the NASAMS air defense system and Naval Strike Missile.

Kongsberg Maritime

Kongsberg Maritime is a Norwegian maritime technology company supplying propulsion, automation, navigation, and dynamic positioning systems; it was demerged from Kongsberg Gruppen and listed on Euronext Oslo Børs in April 2026.

Konica Minolta (コニカミノルタ)

Konica Minolta is a Japanese technology company in Tokyo, formed in 2003 by the merger of camera makers Konica and Minolta, now making office and production printers.

Königstein Fortress

Königstein Fortress, German Festung Königstein, is a hilltop fortress in Saxon Switzerland above the River Elbe near Dresden, Saxony's most important state prison for centuries.

Koninklijke Hoogovens

Koninklijke Hoogovens, formally Koninklijke Nederlandsche Hoogovens en Staalfabrieken, was a Dutch integrated iron, steel, and aluminum producer based at IJmuiden, founded in 1918 and merged with British Steel in 1999 to form Corus.

Koninklijke Nederlandsche Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Petroleumbronnen

Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (KNMEP) was a Dutch oil company founded in The Hague in 1890 to exploit petroleum concessions in the Dutch East Indies.

Konqueror

Konqueror is the web browser and file manager of the KDE community, first released with KDE 2, combining web browsing, file management, and embedded viewing of documents and images.

Konrad Hungerbühler

Konrad Hungerbühler, born 1952 in Zürich, is a Swiss chemical engineer and ETH Zurich professor emeritus who held the chair of safety and environmental technology from 1994 to 2018.

Konrad Zuse

Konrad Zuse (1910–1995) was a German civil engineer who built the Z3 in 1941, the first working programmable computer, and created the Plankalkül high-level programming language.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (Константин Эдуардович Циолковский)

Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935) was a Russian and Soviet schoolteacher in Kaluga who founded the theory of spaceflight, deriving the rocket equation and proposing liquid-propellant multistage rockets decades before any flew.

Kontakt-5

Kontakt-5 (Контакт-5) is a Soviet second-generation explosive reactive armor first fitted to the T-80U in 1985, and the first ERA designed to defeat kinetic energy tank rounds as well as shaped-charge warheads.

Kontek

Kontek is a 600 MW high-voltage direct current submarine and underground interconnector linking eastern Denmark's grid on Zealand with Germany, in operation since 1995 between Bjæverskov and Bentwisch.

Kontes Robot Indonesia

Kontes Robot Indonesia (KRI) is an annual national robotics competition for Indonesian higher-education students, first held in 2003 and organized by Puspresnas, whose flagship KRAI division selects Indonesia's team for the ABU Robocon.

Konvoi (reactor design)

Konvoi is a German design of standardized 1,300-MWe pressurized water reactors built by Kraftwerk Union, used at Isar 2, Emsland, and Neckarwestheim 2, all shut down in 2023.

Koobface

Koobface, an anagram of Facebook, is a Windows malware family first observed in 2008 that spreads via social network messages linking to fake video pages.

Kool (cigarette)

Kool is an American menthol cigarette brand owned by Brown & Williamson, best known for its decades-long advertising to African-American consumers and its music-themed Kool Mixx campaign.

Kopin

Kopin Corporation, spun out of MIT by Dr. John C.C. Fan in 1984 and based in Westborough, Massachusetts, makes microdisplays for military weapon sights, pilot helmets, and consumer devices.

Koradi Thermal Power Station

Koradi Thermal Power Station is a coal-fired power station near Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, owned by the state utility MAHAGENCO with an operating capacity of 2,190 MW.

Korail

Korail, formally the Korea Railroad Corporation (한국철도공사), is South Korea's state-owned national railway operator, running the KTX high-speed trains, metropolitan railways, and freight services nationwide.

Koralm Railway

The Koralm Railway (German: Koralmbahn) is a 130-kilometer electrified high-speed railway between Graz and Klagenfurt in Austria, opened to passengers on 14 December 2025 and cutting the journey to 41 minutes.

Koralm Tunnel

The Koralm Tunnel is a 32.9 km railway tunnel in Austria that opened in December 2025, cutting the Graz to Klagenfurt train journey to 45 minutes.

Koray Kavukcuoglu

Koray Kavukcuoglu is a Turkish computer scientist who leads Google DeepMind as Senior Vice President as of 2026, an early employee who co-authored DQN, AlphaGo, WaveNet, and AlphaFold.

Korchagin Oil and Gas Field

The Korchagin Oil and Gas Field, also called the Yury Korchagin field, is an offshore field in Russia's North Caspian Sea, operated by LUKOIL since 2010.

Kord machine gun

The Kord is a Russian 12.7mm heavy machine gun developed in the 1990s by the Degtyarev Plant in Kovrov to replace the NSV Utyos, and adopted in 1997.