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KakaoTalk (카카오톡)

KakaoTalk (카카오톡), also known as KaTalk, is a free mobile messaging app by South Korea's Kakao Corporation, launched in 2010 and used by nearly 95 percent of South Koreans.

Kakatiya Thermal Power Project

Kakatiya Thermal Power Project, also called Kakatiya Thermal Power Station, is a 1,100 MW coal-fired TSGENCO power station near Chelpur village, Ghanpur mandal, Warangal district, Telangana, India.

Kakhovka Dam (Каховская ГЭС)

Kakhovka Dam, also known as the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station, was a dam on the Dnipro River in Ukraine, destroyed in an explosion on 6 June 2023.

Kakhovka Reservoir (Каховське водосховище)

Kakhovka Reservoir, also known as Kakhovka Lake (Каховське водосховище), was one of six large Dnipro River reservoirs in Ukraine, created in the 1950s and destroyed in 2023.

Kakrapar Nuclear Power Plant

The Kakrapar Nuclear Power Plant, officially the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS), is a nuclear plant near Surat, Gujarat, India, operated by NPCIL with four reactors totaling 1,840 MWe.

Kakuda Space Center

Kakuda Space Center (角田宇宙センター) is the rocket propulsion research and development center of JAXA in Kakuda, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, testing liquid rocket engines, turbopumps, and scramjets.

Kakwa (Alberta gas field)

Kakwa is a liquids-rich natural gas and condensate producing area in the Montney Formation of west central Alberta, 75 kilometers south of Grande Prairie, operated since 2025 by ARC Resources.

Kakwa Oil and Gas Field

Kakwa is a liquids-rich natural gas and condensate field in the Montney formation of west central Alberta, 75 kilometers south of Grande Prairie, producing 153,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2021.

Kala Wewa (කලා වැව)

Kala Wewa (කලා වැව), also called Kala-Balaluwewa, is an ancient reservoir in Sri Lanka's Kala Oya basin, traditionally built by King Dhatusena in the 5th century AD and feeding the Yoda Ela canal toward Anuradhapura.

Kalabagh Dam (کالاباغ ڈیم)

The Kalabagh Dam (کالاباغ ڈیم), also known as Kala Bagh, is a proposed dam on the Indus River in Punjab, Pakistan, first proposed in 1953 but never built.

Kalamkas-Karazhanbas-Aktau Oil Pipeline

The Kalamkas-Karazhanbas-Aktau Oil Pipeline is a trunk oil pipeline in Kazakhstan carrying crude from the Kalamkas and Karazhanbas fields to the Caspian port of Aktau.

Kalashnikov Concern (Концерн «Калашников»)

Kalashnikov Concern (Концерн «Калашников»), formerly Izhmash, is a Russian joint-stock company in Izhevsk that makes AK-series rifles, guided munitions, and drones, holding about 95% of Russia's firearms market.

Kalashnikov rifle

The Kalashnikov rifle, first adopted by the Soviet Army in 1949 as the AK-47, is a family of gas-operated assault rifles designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov.

KALCM Cheonryong (천룡)

KALCM Cheonryong (천룡, 'Sky Dragon'), South Korea's first domestic long-range air-launched cruise missile by ADD, LIG Nex1, and Hanwha Aerospace; a 'Korean Taurus' with 500–800 km reported range, penetrator warhead, KF-21 integration, deployment planned early 2030s.

Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope, better known as Radio Kaleidoscope or "The Big K", was a British land-based pirate radio station broadcasting pop music from South Essex and later South London between 1967 and 1976.

Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project

The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project is a large lift irrigation project on the Godavari River in Telangana, India, described as the world's largest multi-stage lift irrigation project.

Kaleta Dam

Kaleta Dam, also written Kaléta, is a 240 MW hydroelectric dam on the Konkouré River in Guinea, about 110 km north of Conakry, commissioned in 2015.

Kali Linux

Kali Linux, formerly known as BackTrack Linux, is an open-source, Debian-based Linux distribution for penetration testing and security auditing, first released by OffSec in March 2013.

Kalibr

Kalibr (Калибр), exported as the Club missile, is a Russian family of ship-, submarine-, and ground-launched cruise missiles developed by Novator and first used in combat over Syria in 2015.

Kaligandaki A Hydroelectric Power Station

The Kaligandaki A Hydroelectric Power Station, also known as Kaligandaki A, is a 144 MW run-of-river plant on the Kaligandaki River in Syangja District, Nepal, opened in 2002.

KALIMER

KALIMER, short for Korea Advanced LIquid MEtal Reactor, is a family of sodium-cooled fast reactors developed by KAERI since 1992, in 150 MWe and 600 MWe versions.

Kalina cycle

The Kalina cycle is a modified Rankine power cycle that uses an ammonia–water working fluid, invented by engineer Alexander Kalina to convert low-grade waste heat and geothermal heat into electricity.

Kalinin K-7

The Kalinin K-7 (Калинин К-7) was a giant Soviet experimental flying-wing bomber with seven engines, built at Kharkiv in 1933 and destroyed in a crash that November.

Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant

Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant (Калининская АЭС) is a Russian nuclear power station in Udomelsky District, Tver region, with four VVER-1000 reactors totaling 3,800 MW, about 330 km from Moscow.

Kaliningrad CHP-2 power station

Kaliningrad CHP-2 power station (Калининградская ТЭЦ-2) is a 900 MW natural-gas-fired combined heat and power station in Kaliningrad, Russia, with two combined-cycle units commissioned in 2005 and 2010.

Kalisindh Thermal Power Station

Kalisindh Thermal Power Station is a state-owned coal-fired power station in Jhalawar district, Rajasthan, India, with two 600 MW units totaling 1,200 MW, operated by RRVUNL.

Kalitta Air

Kalitta Air, also known as American International Airways, is an American all-cargo airline based at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Michigan, owned by Conrad "Connie" Kalitta.

Kalker's contact theory

Kalker's contact theory is a family of mathematical models by Joost J. Kalker for computing tangential forces in rolling contact, most prominently between railway wheels and rails.

Kallanai Dam

Kallanai, also known as the Grand Anicut, is an ancient dam across the Kaveri River in Tamil Nadu, India, built by the Chola king Karikala.

Kallanka

A kallanka is a large elongated rectangular hall of Inca architecture, used for administration, collective lodging, or ceremonies and typically built facing a main plaza. Largest examples reach 105 meters, including the hall at Raqchi.