Entries starting with K
- Kampala: History, the Kasubi Tombs and Key Facts About Uganda’s CapitalKampala is Uganda's capital and largest city, built across hills near Lake Victoria and rooted in the Buganda Kingdom's royal tradition.
- Karachi: Geography, History, Culture and Key FactsKarachi is Pakistan's largest city and Sindh's capital, home to Mazar-e-Quaid, the mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
- Kazakhstan: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsThe world's largest landlocked country, in Central Asia, known for oil wealth, the Baikonur Cosmodrome and Astana's Baiterek Tower.
- Kenya: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsAn East African country straddling the equator, known for the Great Rift Valley, elite distance runners, and the Maasai Mara wildebeest migration.
- Kingston: Jamaica’s Capital and Home of ReggaeKingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, built on one of the world's largest natural harbours and the birthplace of reggae music.
- Kinshasa: History, the Limete Tower and Key Facts About the DRC’s CapitalKinshasa is the DRC's capital, on the Congo River directly across from Brazzaville, the world's closest pair of capitals.
- Kiribati: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsA low-lying Pacific island nation of 33 atolls, among the countries most threatened by sea level rise, centered on Tarawa Atoll.
- Kolkata: Geography, History, Culture and Key FactsKolkata (Calcutta) is the capital of West Bengal, India, and the former capital of British India until 1911.
- Kosovo: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsA partially recognized Balkan state that declared independence from Serbia in 2008, symbolized by the Newborn Monument in Pristina.
- Kuala Lumpur: Geography, History, Culture and Key FactsKuala Lumpur is Malaysia's capital, a former tin-mining town known today for the Petronas Towers and its multiethnic culture.
- Kuwait: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsKuwait is a small, oil-rich Arab constitutional monarchy on the northwestern Persian Gulf, bordered by Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
- Kyoto: Japan’s Imperial CapitalKyoto served as Japan's imperial capital for over a thousand years and remains the country's foremost center of traditional religious architecture, gardens, and courtly culture.
- Kyrgyzstan: Geography, History, Culture and Key FactsKyrgyzstan is a landlocked, mountainous Central Asian country bordered by Kazakhstan, China, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, dominated by the Tian Shan range.