# Ka

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**Ka** or **KA** may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

- [*K.A.* (Kohntarkosz Anteria)](/source/K.A_(K%C3%B6hntark%C3%B6sz_Anteria)), a 2004 album by Magma
- [*KA* (film)](/source/KA_(film)), a 2024 Indian Telugu-language crime thriller film directed by the duo Sujith and Sandeep
- *[Kà](/source/K%C3%A0)*, a Cirque du Soleil show
- [Ka (*Dark Tower*)](/source/Ka_(Dark_Tower)), a plot element in Stephen King's *Dark Tower* series
- *[Mister Mosquito](/source/Mister_Mosquito)*, a 2001 video game, known in Japan as *Ka*

## Businesses and organizations

- [Kappa Alpha Order](/source/Kappa_Alpha_Order), a fraternity founded in 1865 at Washington and Lee
- [Kappa Alpha Society](/source/Kappa_Alpha_Society), a fraternity founded in 1825 at Union College
- [Karenni Army](/source/Karenni_Army), a Burmese guerilla organization
- [Knattspyrnufélag Akureyrar](/source/Knattspyrnuf%C3%A9lag_Akureyrar), an Icelandic football club
- [Kuklos Adelphon](/source/Kuklos_Adelphon), an 1800s-era Southern fraternity
- [Khan Academy](/source/Khan_Academy), a non-profit educational organization
- [King's Arms, Oxford](/source/King's_Arms,_Oxford), a pub known as the KA

## Language

### Languages

- Ka, a variety of the [Central Banda language](/source/Central_Banda_language)
- [Georgian language](/source/Georgian_language), by ISO 639-1 code

### Characters

- [Ka (Cyrillic)](/source/Ka_(Cyrillic)), a letter in the Cyrillic script
- [Ka (Indic)](/source/Ka_(Indic)), a group of related glyphs from the Brahmic family of scripts
- [Devanagari ka](/source/Devanagari_ka), a letter in the Devanagari script
- [Ka (Javanese)](/source/Ka_(Javanese)) (ꦏ), a letter in the Javanese script
- [Ka (kana)](/source/Ka_(kana)), a syllabic grapheme in the Japanese katakana and hiragana scripts

## People

- [Ka (pharaoh)](/source/Ka_(pharaoh)) ([fl.](/source/Floruit) c. thirty-second century B.C.), Predynastic pharaoh of Upper Egypt
- [Ka (rapper)](/source/Ka_(rapper)) (1972–2024), performer

## Places

- Ka Farm, Østre Toten, Norway; see [List of short place names](/source/List_of_short_place_names#Two-letter_place_names)
- [Ka Island](/source/Ka_Island) (*Ka-to*), North Korea
- [Ka Lae](/source/Ka_Lae), Hawaii, southernmost point in the fifty United States
- [KA postcode area](/source/KA_postcode_area), Scotland
- [Ka River](/source/Ka_River), Nigeria
- [Karlsruhe](/source/Karlsruhe), Germany (e.g. code used on German vehicle registration plates)
- [Karnataka](/source/Karnataka), India

## Science and technology

- Ka, an [acid dissociation constant](/source/Acid_dissociation_constant)
- [Ka band](/source/Ka_band), a microwave band
- Ka, the [absorption rate constant](/source/Absorption_rate_constant) of a drug
- Ka, number of non-synonymous substitutions at a DNA site, used in [Ka/Ks ratio](/source/Ka/Ks_ratio)
- Ka tree, *[Terminalia carolinensis](/source/Terminalia_carolinensis)*
- [kiloannum](/source/Kiloannum) or [kiloannus](/source/Kiloannus) (ka), a unit of time equal to one thousand (103) years
- [Keepalive](/source/Keepalive), a computer network message
- [Kiloampere](/source/Kiloampere) (kA), a unit of electric current

## Transport

- [Ford Ka](/source/Ford_Ka), a car
- [NZR KA class](/source/NZR_KA_class), a New Zealand steam locomotive
- KA, IATA code of [Aero Nomad Airlines](/source/Aero_Nomad_Airlines), a Kyrgyz airline
- KA, then IATA code of [Cathay Dragon](/source/Cathay_Dragon), formerly Dragonair
- [Kenya Airways](/source/Kenya_Airways)
- Code for products of [Kamov](/source/Kamov), a Russian rotorcraft manufacturing company

## Other uses

- [Ka (Bengali)](/source/Ka_(Bengali)), a consonant character
- [Ka (cuneiform)](/source/Ka_(cuneiform))
- Ka or kꜣ, "double" or "vital essence", an [Ancient Egyptian concept of the soul or spirit](/source/Ancient_Egyptian_conception_of_the_soul#Ka_(vital_essence))
- [Knight or Dame of St Andrew](/source/Knight_or_Dame_of_St_Andrew), a Barbadian award
- [Kingda Ka](/source/Kingda_Ka), a former roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure
- KA, a carbonated drink produced by the company [A.G. Barr](/source/A.G._Barr)

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