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Kang

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Kang may refer to:

Places

  • Kang District, Afghanistan
  • Kang, Botswana, a village
  • Kang County, Gansu, China
  • Kang, Isfahan, Iran, a village
  • Kang, Kerman, Iran, a village
  • Kang, Razavi Khorasan, Iran, a village
  • Kham (康), also transliterated as Kang, an area of eastern Tibet and western Sichuan
  • Kangju, an ancient kingdom in Central Asia
  • Xikang, a province of the Republic of China from 1939 to 1955

People

Royalty

  • Tai Kang (reigned 2117–2088 BC), third sovereign of the Xia Dynasty
  • King Kang of Zhou (reigned 1020-996 BC or 1005-978 BC), third sovereign of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty
  • King Kang of Chu (died 545 BC), in ancient China
  • Duke Kang of Qi (died 379 BC), titular ruler of Qi
  • Emperor Kang of Jin (322-344), of the Eastern Jin Dynasty

Surname

  • Kang (Chinese surname), 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
  • Eugene Kang (born 1984), Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to U.S. President Barack Obama
  • Jimmy Kang, American music producer and executive
  • Kristi Kang (born 1984), American voice actress affiliated with Funimation
  • Kang Kek Iew (1942–2020), leader of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge, convicted of crimes against humanity

Characters

Other uses

  • Kang, the proper name of the star Kappa Virginis
  • Kang bed-stove
  • K'ang jo fu, also known as Kang, a self-defense technique propagated by Rolf Cahn
  • KANG-LD, a low-power television station (channel 21, virtual 31) licensed to serve San Angelo, Texas, United States
  • KEUS-LD, a low-power television station (channel 41) licensed to serve San Angelo, Texas, which held the call sign KANG-CA from 2002 to 2013
  • KANG-TV, a UHF broadcaster that was the first television station in Waco, Texas, sold to KWTX-TV in 1955
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