In the central North Caucasus, beneath the twin summits of Mount Elbrus, live the Kabardians, the easternmost and once the most powerful branch of the Circassian nation. Famed as horsemen

The Kabyle are a Berber people of northern Algeria, the largest of the Amazigh communities of the country, living in the mountainous region of Kabylia east of Algiers. Numbering some

In the dry granite country of southwestern Zimbabwe and northeastern Botswana live the Kalanga, heirs to one of the great civilisations of southern Africa. Widely held to descend from the

The Kalenjin are a cluster of Highland Nilotic peoples living across the western highlands and Rift Valley of Kenya, with related communities in eastern Uganda. Numbering more than six million,

The Kamba, who call themselves the Akamba, are a Bantu-speaking people of the semi-arid hills of eastern Kenya, spread across the counties of Machakos, Kitui and Makueni in the region

High on the slopes of Mount Elbrus, the tallest peak in Europe, live the Karachay-Balkars, a Turkic people of the central Caucasus mountains. Known by two names but one in

The Karamojong, or Karimojong, are a Nilotic pastoral people of the semi-arid northeast of Uganda, in the region of Karamoja that bears their name. Numbering several hundred thousand, they belong

In the hills and river plains of southeastern Myanmar and along the Thai border live the Karen, one of the largest and most varied of Myanmar’s peoples. Farmers of the

In the upper valley of the mighty Yenisei, on the golden steppes of the Minusinsk basin in southern Siberia, live the Khakas, a Turkic people heir to one of the

In the cloud-wrapped hills of Meghalaya, in one of the wettest places on earth, live the Khasi people, one of the most distinctive communities in all of India. Speakers of