Kang

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