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Capital city surrounded by the Hindu Kush mountains that has experienced serious conflicts in modern times
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Kabul
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A coastal port city name shared by Japan and India, both historically important trade gateways
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Kochi
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Westernmost town of Estonia and administrative center of Saaremaa Island
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Kuressaare
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In Henan, it's one of the Eight Ancient Capitals of China and has been capital eight times in history as well
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Kaifeng
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Usually home to about 100,000 people, an additional 45,000 NATO military personnel are based in this German city
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Kaiserslautern
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City on Kyushu, close in proximity to Japan's second largest active volcano after Fuji, Mount Aso
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Kumamoto
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Sits on a plateau surrounded by the Morava Mountains close to the Greek border
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Korce
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The founding father of aeronautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, was born in this Russian city
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Kaluga
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A special city in the southern part of North Korea, visible from the DMZ
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Kaesŏng
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This large city in Bangladesh is served by both a riverport and seaport named Port of Mongla
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Khulna
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Lively city in western Canada that is known as the "Tournament Capital of Canada" as well as its film and wine festivals
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Kamloops
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Central German city were the Brothers Grimm lived and wrote most of their fairy tales
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Kassel
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City on the Dnipro River and capital of its oblast
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Kherson
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One of the most significant cities in South Maharashtra and has been a hub of historical, religious, and cultural activities for centuries.
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Kolhapur
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Main urban centre and only port city of this "Alpine-Adriatic" country
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Koper
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Known as Yorkshire's maritime city, it is unique for having its own white telephone boxes instead of red ones
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Kingston upon Hull
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Largest city of Pakistan
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Karachi
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Japan's southernmost major city on the four main islands
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Kagoshima
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Former imperial capital of Japan for over 1,000 years and part of the huge Keihanshin metropolitan area
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Kyoto
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Capital city at the foot of the Himalayas
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Kathmandu
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Capital and largest town of the Scottish Orkney Islands
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Kirkwall
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Gateway to a namesake mountain, the highest of Malaysia and Borneo
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Kota Kinabalu
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Tajikistan's second largest city, located at the western periphery of the Fergana valley
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Khujand
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Located in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains, it is part of the historical Polish province of Lesser Poland.
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Kielce
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Core city of the urban area also known as the Upper Silesian metropolitan area
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Katowice
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Capital city of Sudan
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Khartoum
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Kenyan port city on Lake Victoria, cultural center of the Luo people
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Kisumu
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Malaysia's largest city on Borneo, founded by the representative of the Sultan of Brunei
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Kuching
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Capital city on the Persian Gulf
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Kuwait City
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The largest city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, close to Lucknow
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Kanpur
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Second largest city of Slovakia, located on the Hornád River close to Hungary
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Kosice
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Thanks to intermittent Russian fire, a quarter of this Ukrainian city has been damaged or destroyed
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Kharkiv
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Junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, on the Yenisei River
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Krasnoyarsk
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Capital and largest city of the state and historical region of Carinthia, close to the Slovene border
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Klagenfurt
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Located in namesake oblast, this Russian city lies in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Basin
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Kemerovo
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It is located at the center of its namesake autonomous okrug, close to the confluence of the Irtysh and Ob rivers
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Khanty-Mansiysk
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The only city in Japan with a population exceeding 1m that is not a prefectural capital
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Kawasaki
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This African provincial capital has considerable historical significance because of its diamond mining past and siege during the Second Boer War.
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Kimberley
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Capital city of Värmland County at the northern shore of lake Vänern
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Karlstad
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City located along the Tennessee River and a former capital of its state in the 18th/19th century
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Knoxville
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This city, the largest in Taiwan by area, is the countries third largest population wise and the largest southern city
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Kaohsiung
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Only major seaport of Lithuania, located near the Curonian Lagoon
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Klaipeda
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One of Germany’s oldest cities, founded by Romans at the Rhine-Moselle confluence
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Koblenz
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Regarded by many as cultural capital of India and the most significant city in the historic region of Bengal
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Kolkata
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The capital of the North East Indian state of Nagaland
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Kohima
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This tourist destination in British Columbia lies on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley and derives its name from Okanagan
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Kelowna
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In eastern Crimea, it lies on a peninsula that was named after the city
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Kerch
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This provincial capital lies on the same island as Timor Leste
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Kupang
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Part of a larger metropolitan area with Taipei, it's the terminal for ferries to the Matsu Islands in Lienchiang County
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Keelung
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Famous landing place of Vasco da Gama in 1498, opening the sea route to India
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Kozhikode
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In Northeast Thailand, this city is part of the "big four of Isan"
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Khon Kaen
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Capital city of Rwanda
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Kigali
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The second largest city of North-Macedonia and site of a major battle of the First Balkan War
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Kumanovo
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Capital city of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
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Kingstown
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The capital city of Lualaba Province in the south of the DRC, west of Likasi
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Kolwezi
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Coastal town in a fjord-like bay, famous for its UNESCO medieval old town and Venitian influence
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Kotor
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Nigerian city that lies very close to the border of Niger, with Maradi on the other side
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Katsina
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Capital city on the Dnipro River in Eastern Europe
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Kyiv
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Site of the largest tank battle in history (1943), Germany's last major offensive against the Soviet Union
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Kursk
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The largest city in southern Russia, as well as the Southern Federal District
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Krasnodar
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Largest German city on the Baltic Sea and capital of Schleswig-Holstein
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Kiel
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Widely recognised as the largest Kurdish-populated city in Iran and one of the most significant urban centres of Kurdish culture in the region
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Kermanshah
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Prussian silk capital with Mennonite roots and Bauhaus villas in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region
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Krefeld
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Second biggest city of Lithuania that has also served as a placeholder-capital during the Polish siege of Vilnius
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Kaunas
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Lies on a chain of islands and is the southernmost city in the contiguous United States
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Key West
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Historically known as Caesarea, it has been the historical capital of Cappadocia since ancient times
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Kayseri
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Outback town known for underground homes to escape the extreme heat
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Kalgoorlie
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Capital of the current Ashanti Region and formerly the Ashanti Empire
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Kumasi
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The second most populous city of the Central Anatolia Region after Ankara.
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Konya
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Main port and capital of one of the islands in the Caribbean Netherlands
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Kralendijk
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Thracian city whose name supposedly derives from ‘forty churches’ (Kırk Kilise)
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Kirklareli
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This hub in the Russian Far East is located on the Baikal-Amur Mainline
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Komsomol'sk-na-Amure
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Largest city of the province of Yunnan and nicknamed "City of Eternal Spring"
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Kunming
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Capital city of a Caribbean country with its airport and former capital on a nearby sand spit
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Kingston
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Capital city on the northern shore of Lake Victoria, built on seven hills
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Kampala
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This centrally situated city in the DRC lies near the Lulua River and was consequently formerly named Luluaburg
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Kananga
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Largest city in the Russian Far East, some 30km away from the Chinese border on the formerly disputed Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island
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Khabarovsk
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A planned industrial city for arms manufacture in central Turkey
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Kırıkkale
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Former Polish royal capital on the Vistula River, home to Wawel Castle and a UNESCO Old Town
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Krakow
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City in Skåne län, home to Sweden's lowest point at 2,41 meters under sea level
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Kristianstad
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This major atoll settlement serves as the capital of Lakshadweep, India
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Kavaratti
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This Ukrainian city is claimed to have the longest stretching city-boundaries in Europe
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Kryvyi Rih
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This city was one of the seven medieval Hausa kingdoms and is now the second biggest in its country at over 4m inhabitants
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Kano
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Located in Rajasthan, it is India's first and world's second traffic signal free city after Bhutan's capital Thimphu
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Kota
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Was the capital city of the Senkadagala Kingdom, which was sometimes also named after this Sri Lankan city itself
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Kandy
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Industrial Japanese city at the Kanmon Strait linking Kyushu and Honshu
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Kitakyushu
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Largest city of Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland
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Kaliningrad
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Biggest city in the north of the DRC and the biggest in the Congo River Basin
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Kisangani
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A former capital of the historical region of Baden, this city lies close to France's northeastern tip
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Karlsruhe
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One of the world's fastest-growing megacities and the third city largest in Africa
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Kinshasa
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Lies partly in Kansas (naturally), but for the most part actually in Missouri
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Kansas City
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One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, it is the 3rd-largest city in Georgia
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Kutaisi
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Sometimes called ___-Nkana, named after a Lamba chief in Zambia’s Copperbelt
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Kitwe
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Capital city home to the Petronas Towers, the tallest twin skyscrapers in the world
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Kuala Lumpur
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Described as both the Jerusalem of Kurdistan and historical capital of Iraqi Turkmens
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Kirkuk
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Formerly called Vyatka after river it lies on, this Russian city is known for colorful Dymkovo clay toys
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Kirov
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This Australian city is 3,040 kilometres away from its state capital via the Great Northern Highway
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Kununurra
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Town and capital of the Musandam Governorate exclave of Oman
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Khasab
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City in Hyōgo Prefecture or first name of famous basketballer that died tragically
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Kobe
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This urban area is the fourth-largest in Iran and lies close to Tehran
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Karaj
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