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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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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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Kla
A group that fought against Serbian attempts to control the region of Kosovo in the 1990s.
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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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Kyoto Protocol
A treaty on climate change signed by 160 countries in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, and put into force in 2005.