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)
- Kang clan, a surname from the Jat community
- 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 (born 1942), former leader of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge, convicted of crimes against humanity
Characters
- Kang and Kodos, green one-eyed aliens in The Simpsons
- Kang the Conqueror, a Marvel Comics supervillain
- Kang (Star Trek), a Klingon warrior in Star Trek television series
- Liu Kang, a character in the Mortal Kombat series
- Meng Kang, a character in the Water Margin
- Kang the Mad, a character in Jade Empire 2005 video game
- Kang Tongbi or Widow Kang, a character in The Years of Rice and Salt 2002 counterfactual novel
- Suzie Kang, an object-tracker in The Lost Room mini-series
- The Kangs, two warring gangs in the "Paradise Towers" 1987 Doctor Who episode
Other uses
- Kang bed-stove
- K'ang jo fu, also known as Kang, a self-defense technique propagated by Rolf Cahn
- KANG-LP, a low-power television station (channel 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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