Kang, Botswana
Kang is a village in Kgalagadi District of Botswana. It is situated in the Kalahari Desert and lies on the Trans-Kalahari Highway between Ghanzi in the north and Sekoma in the south. Kang also provides access to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier P ...
, a village
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Kang County
Kang County or Kangxian () is a county in the southeast of Gansu province, China. It is under the administration of Longnan City. The county was formed in 1928 as Wudu County, but renamed to Kang County the next year, named after the northern Zhou ...
Kang, Kerman
Kang ( fa, كنگ; also known as Kanj) is a village in Madvarat Rural District, in the Central District of Shahr-e Babak County, Kerman Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a c ...
, Iran, a village
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Kang, Razavi Khorasan
Kang ( fa, كنگ) is a village in Jagharq Rural District, Torqabeh District, Torqabeh and Shandiz County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country locat ...
, Iran, a village
* Kham (康), also transliterated as Kang, an area of eastern Tibet and western Sichuan
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Kangju
Kangju (; Eastern Han Chinese: ''kʰɑŋ-kɨɑ'' < *''khâŋ-ka'' (c. 140 BCE)) was the Chinese name of a kingdom in
Xikang
Xikang (also Sikang or Hsikang) was a nominal province
formed by the Republic of China in 1939 on the initiative of prominent Sichuan warlord Liu Wenhui and continued by the early People's Republic of China. Thei idea was to form a single unif ...
, a province of the Republic of China from 1939 to 1955
People
Royalty
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Tai Kang
Tai Kang () was the third king of the Xia Dynasty. He was the son of the king Qi of Xia and paternal grandson of Yu the Great and queen Nu Jiao.
Biography
Tai Kang loved to hunt and did not rule well.
According to the ''Bamboo Annals'', Tai ...
(reigned 2117–2088 BC), third sovereign of the Xia Dynasty
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King Kang of Zhou
King Kang of Zhou, personal name Ji Zhao, was the third sovereign of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty and son of King Cheng of Zhou. The dates of his reign are 1020–996 BC or 1005–978 BC.
King Kang followed his father's policy and expanded the Zhou ...
(reigned 1020-996 BC or 1005-978 BC), third sovereign of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty
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King Kang of Chu
King Kang of Chu (, died 545 BC) was from 559 to 545 BC the king of Chu, a major power during the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China. Born Xiong Zhao (), he succeeded his father King Gong of Chu. His reign was marked by constant wars wi ...
(died 545 BC), in ancient China
* Duke Kang of Qi (died 379 BC), titular ruler of Qi
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Emperor Kang of Jin
Emperor Kang of Jin (; 322 – 17 November 344), personal name Sima Yue (), courtesy name Shitong (), was an emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (266–420). He was a son of Emperor Ming and younger brother (by the same mother) of Emperor Chen ...
(322-344), of the Eastern Jin Dynasty
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Kang (Chinese surname)
Kang (康, pinyin: Kāng) is a Chinese surname. It is considered one of the " Nine Sogdian Surnames," and in this context it is derived from the city of Samarkand. It is the 88th name on the ''Hundred Family Surnames'' poem.K. S. Tom. 989(1989). ...
, a Chinese surname (康)
* Kang (Korean surname), a common Korean surname (강; 姜)
* C.S. Eliot Kang (born 1962), American diplomat and member of the U.S. Senior Executive Service
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Eugene Kang
Eugene Kang (born 1984) was the Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to President Barack Obama.
Eugene Kang is an Ann Arbor native who attended Greenhills School before enrolling at the University of Michigan. At Michigan, Ka ...
(born 1984), Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to U.S. President Barack Obama
* Jimmy Kang, American music producer and executive
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Kristi Kang
Kristi Lynn Kang (née Bingham, born March 24, 1984) is an American voice actress affiliated with Funimation. She has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime films and television series. She voiced Kyoka Kane ...
(born 1984), American voice actress affiliated with Funimation
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Kang Kek Iew
Kang Kek Iew, also spelled Kaing Guek Eav ( km, កាំង ហ្គេកអ៊ាវ, ; 17 November 1942 – 2 September 2020), ''nom de guerre'' Comrade Duch ( km, មិត្តឌុច, ) or Hang Pin, was a Cambodian convicted war ...
(1942–2020), leader of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge, convicted of crimes against humanity
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David Kang
David Kang (born 1970) is an Australian barrister. In January 1994 he fired two blank shots from a starting pistol at Charles, Prince of Wales in protest at the treatment of several hundred Cambodian asylum seekers held in detention camps in Au ...
, an Australian barrister and gunman
Characters
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Kang and Kodos
Kang and Kodos Johnson are a duo of fictional recurring characters in the animated television series ''The Simpsons''. Kang is voiced by Harry Shearer and Kodos by Dan Castellaneta. They are green, perpetually drooling, octopus-like aliens fr ...
, green one-eyed aliens in ''The Simpsons''
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Kang the Conqueror
Kang the Conqueror (Nathaniel Richards) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is most frequently depicted as an opponent of the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. A time-traveling entity, sev ...
, a Marvel Comics supervillain
* Kang (''Star Trek''), a Klingon warrior in ''Star Trek'' television series
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Liu Kang
Liu Kang is a fictional character in the ''Mortal Kombat'' fighting game series by Midway Games and NetherRealm Studios. Depicted as Earthrealm's greatest warrior and champion, he is generally the main hero of the series. He debuted in the ori ...
, a character in the ''Mortal Kombat'' series
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Meng Kang
Meng may refer to:
* Meng (surname) (孟), a Chinese surname
* Master of Engineering (MEng or M.Eng.), an academic or professional master's degree in the field of engineering
* , "M with hook", letter used in the International Phonetic Alphabet
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, a character in the ''Water Margin''
* Kang the Mad, a character in ''
Jade Empire
''Jade Empire'' is an action role-playing game developed by BioWare, originally published by Microsoft Game Studios in 2005 as an Xbox exclusive. It was later ported to Microsoft Windows personal computers (PC) and published by 2K Games in 200 ...
'' 2005 video game
* Kang Tongbi or Widow Kang, a character in ''
The Years of Rice and Salt
''The Years of Rice and Salt'' is an alternate history novel by American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, published in 2002. The novel explores how world history might have been different if the Black Death plague had killed 99 per ...
'' 2002 counterfactual novel
* Suzie Kang, an object-tracker in ''
The Lost Room
''The Lost Room'' is a 2006 science fiction television miniseries that aired on the Syfy Channel in the United States. The series revolves around the titular room and some of the everyday items from that room which possess unusual powers. The sh ...
'' mini-series
* The Kangs, two warring gangs in the "
Paradise Towers
''Paradise Towers'' is the second serial of the 24th season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 5 to 26 October 1987.
In the serial, Kroagnon, the incorporeal arc ...
Kang bed-stove
The ''kang'' (; Manchu: ''nahan'', kk, кән) is a traditional heated platform, 2 metres or more long, used for general living, working, entertaining and sleeping in the northern part of China, where the winter climate is cold. It is made of ...
* K'ang jo fu or the kang, a self-defense technique
* KANG-LD, a TV station, San Angelo, Texas, US
* KEUS-LD, a TV station, San Angelo, Texas, US, formerly KANG-CA
* KANG-TV, a TV station in Waco, Texas, sold to
KWTX-TV
KWTX-TV (channel 10) is a television station in Waco, Texas, United States, serving Central Texas as an affiliate of CBS. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Belton-licensed CW affiliate KNCT (channel 46). Both stations share studios on ...