UK (disambiguation)

UK (or U.K.) is a common abbreviation for the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), an island country in northwestern Europe.

It can also refer to one of its predecessor states, the (united) Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1801), or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1927).

The term UK may also refer to any of the following:

In general

• the United Kingdom of Denmark (Rigsfællesskabet)
• a commonly used abbreviation for 'unknown' in the completion of forms
• Uk (Cyrillic) (Ѹ, ѹ), a letter in the early Cyrillic alphabet
• Ukrainian language language, identified in List of ISO 639-1 codes as "uk"
• UK (band), a British progressive rock supergroup
  • U.K. (album), the debut, self-titled album from the band UK
• Universiteitskrant ("UK"), the University of Groningen's weekly paper
• Ultimate Kylie, an album by Kylie Minogue
• Universala Kongreso (World Congress of Esperanto)
• Uk (urban-type settlement), an urban-type settlement in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia
• UK Records, a record label
• UKTV a brand of TV channels
• Abbreviation used for the Indian State of Uttarakhand
• Abbreviation used for the District of Karnataka State,India Uttara_Kannada

Education

• University of Kent in the United Kingdom
• University of Kentucky in the United States
• University of Kansas in the United States (note: the "UK" initialism is locally stigmatized, with "KU" preferred)
• University of Khartoum in the Sudan
• Charles University of Prague (Univerzita Karlova)
• Comenius University in Bratislava (Univerzita Komenského)
• Kongo University (l’Université Kongo) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

See also

• UK are the first two letters indicating the ICAO code of the airports, airfields or air bases of Ukraine
• .uk, the ccTLD for the United Kingdom
• United Kingdom (disambiguation)