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Karst
Landscape features associated with the dissolution of limestone or dolomite, including caves, sinkholes, and towers.
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Kashmir
A region of northern India and Pakistan over which several destructive wars have been fought.
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Kazakhstan
Location: Central Asia Official name: Republic of Kazakhstan Formation (date of independence / date current borders were established): 1991 / 1991 Capital city: Astana Population: 15.8 million / 15 people per sq mile (6 people per sq km) Total land area: 1,049,150 square miles (2,717,300 square km) Language(s) spoken: Kazakh (official language), Russian, Ukrainian, German, …
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Kenya
Location: East Africa Official name: Republic of Kenya Formation (date of independence / date current borders were established): 1963 / 1963 Capital city: Nairobi Population: 40.9 million / 187 people per sq mile (72 people per sq km) Total land area: 224,961 square miles (582,650 square km) Language(s) spoken: Kiswahili (official language), English (official language), …
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Keystone species
A species that affect many other organisms in an ecosystem.
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Khmer Empire
A powerful empire that lasted roughly from the 9th to the 15th centuries in what is now Cambodia.
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Kimbanguist
Simon Kimbangu founded a puritan form of the Baptist denomination in the 1920s in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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King Leopold II
The Belgian king opened up the African interior to European trade along the Congo River and, by 1884, controlled the area known as the congo free state.
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Kirant
The belief system of the Kirat, a people who live mainly in the Himalayas of Nepal.
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Kiribati
Location: Australasia & Oceania Official name: Republic of Kiribati Formation (date of independence / date current borders were established): 1979 / 1979 Capital city: Bairiki (Tarawa Atoll) Population: 100,743 / 368 people per sq mile (142 people per sq km) Total land area: 277 square miles (717 square km) Language(s) spoken: English (official language), Kiribati …
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Kla
A group that fought against Serbian attempts to control the region of Kosovo in the 1990s.
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Kosovo
Location: Southeast Europe Official name: Republic of Kosovo Formation (date of independence / date current borders were established): 2008 / 2008 Capital city: Pristina Population: 1.83 million / 433 people per sq mile (167 people per sq km) Total land area: 4212 square miles (10,908 square km) Language(s) spoken: Albanian (official language), Serbian (official language), …
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Kunlun Mountains
Mountains located in the west of China are the source of two of china’s great rivers, the Huang He (yellow) and the Chang Jiang (Yangtze).
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Kurds
An ethnic group in southwestern Asia has occupied Kurdistan, located in Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, for about a thousand years, and who have been involved in clashes with these three countries over land claims for most of the 20th century.
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Kuwait
Location: Southwest Asia Official name: State of Kuwait Formation (date of independence / date current borders were established): 1961 / 1961 Capital city: Kuwait City Population: 3.1 million / 451 people per sq mile (174 people per sq km) Total land area: 6880 square miles (17,820 square km) Language(s) spoken: Arabic (official language), English Main …
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Kyoto Protocol
A treaty on climate change signed by 160 countries in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, and put into force in 2005.
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Kyrgyzstan
Location: Central Asia Official name: Kyrgyz Republic Formation (date of independence / date current borders were established): 1991 / 1991 Capital city: Bishkek Population: 5.6 million / 73 people per sq mile (28 people per sq km) Total land area: 76,641 square miles (198,500 square km) Language(s) spoken: Kyrgyz (official language), Russian (official language), Uzbek, …