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KKH may refer to: * the Karakoram Highway in northern Pakistan * KK Women's and Children's Hospital, formerly known as "Kandang Kerbau Hospital", a hospital in Singapore * Kongiganak Airport (IATA code: KKH), an airport in Alaska See also * kkh, the ISO 639 code for the Khün language of Myanmar * KKh 060 KKH 060 is an irregular galaxy and a low surface brightness galaxy located in the direction of the constellation Leo at a distance of 84.2 million light years from Earth. The galaxy was thought to be close to the Local Group The Local Gro ...

Karakoram Highway
The Karakoram Highway ( ur, , translit=śāhirāh qarāquram; known by its initials KKH, also known as N-35 or National Highway 35 ( ur, ) or the China-Pakistan Friendship Highway) is a national highway which extends from Hasan Abdal in the Punjab province of Pakistan to the Khunjerab Pass in Gilgit-Baltistan, where it crosses into China and becomes China National Highway 314. The highway connects the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa plus Gilgit-Baltistan with China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The highway is a popular tourist attraction and is one of the highest paved roads in the world, passing through the Karakoram mountain range, at at maximum elevation of near Khunjerab Pass. Due to its high elevation and the difficult conditions under which it was constructed, it is often referred to as the Eighth Wonder of the World. The highway is also a part of the Asian Highway AH4. History The Karakoram Highway, also known as the F ...
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KK Women's And Children's Hospital
KK Women's and Children's Hospital ( abbreviation: KKH) is the largest public hospital specialising in healthcare for women and children in Singapore, located at 100 Bukit Timah Road. From its humble beginnings as a small general hospital in 1858 to a 30-bed maternity hospital in 1924, KKH has grown into an 830-bed hospital providing obstetric and gynaecology, neonatology and paediatric services. Often referred to as "KK" amongst locals, it is the birthplace of a sizeable proportion of Singaporeans, delivering over half of total newborns in the country as early as 1938. History The hospital's name comes from the Malay term for "buffalo shed" (''kandang'' = shed / pen + ''kerbau'' = buffalo), reflecting the area's past link with buffalo rearing. While the hospital started as one catering to health care for women, mainly for gynaecology and obstetrics, it has since expanded its role. First, the paediatrics department was added for the care of the babies after delivery, but ov ...
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Kongiganak Airport
Kongiganak Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located adjacent to the village of Kongiganak, in the Bethel Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned DUY by the FAA and KKH by the IATA. The airport's ICAO identifier is PADY. Facilities and aircraft Kongiganak Airport has one runway designated 18/36 with a gravel surface measuring 1,885 by 35 feet (575 x 11 m). For the 12-month period ending August 26, 2005, the airport had 1,200 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 100 per month. Airlines and destinations Prior to its bankruptcy and cessation of all operations, Ravn Alaska served the airport from multiple locations. See also * List of airports in Alaska References External links Alaska FAA airport diagram(GIF The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; or , see pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was develop ...
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Khün Language
Khün, or Tai Khün (Tai Khün: , ; th, ไทเขิน ), also known as Kengtung tai, Kengtung Shan, is the language of the Tai Khün people of Kengtung, Shan State, Myanmar. It is a Tai language that is closely related to Thai and Lao. It is also spoken in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand, and Yunnan Province, China. Geographical distribution In China, there are about 10,000 Tai Khuen () people in the following areas of Yunnan province (Gao 1999).Gao Lishi 高立士. 1999. 傣族支系探微. 中南民族学院学报 (哲学社会科学版). 1999 年第1 期 (总第96 期). * Menglian County 孟连县: in Mengma Town 勐马镇, and in Meng'aba 勐阿坝 (12 villages total) * Ximeng County 西盟县: in Mengsuo 勐梭 * Lincang Prefecture (small, scattered population) Phonology Tones There are contrastive five or six tones in Khün.Owen, R. W. (2012). A tonal analysis of contemporary Tai Khuen varieties. ''Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS)'' 5: ...
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