K2 (disambiguation)

K2, at 8,611 m (28,251 ft), is the second highest mountain in the world, located in the Karakoram Range.

K2 or K-2 may also refer to:

Places

• Mount K2, an ancillary summit of Mount Kitchener in the Canadian Rockies
• Bambandyanalo, an archaeological site in Zimbabwe
• Kōnāhuanui 2, a summit in Oahu, Hawaii

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• K2 (film), a 1991 film about climbing the mountain based on the play of the same name
• K2: Siren of the Himalayas (2012), an American documentary film directed by Dave Ohlson

Literature

• K2 (manga), a manga series by Kazuo Mafune and sequel to Super Doctor K
• K2 (play), a play by Patrick Meyers about climbing the mountain
• List of books about K2

Music

Groups

• K2 (Serbian band), a sibling duo
• Kee Marcello's K2, a hard rock band

Albums

• K2 (K2 album) (1995)
• K2 (Kerfuffle album) (2005)
• K2 - Tales of Triumph and Tragedy, a 1988 album by Don Airey

Songs

• "K2", a 1983 song by Tony Banks from The Fugitive
• "K2", a 2017 song by Elbow from Little Fictions
• "K2", a 2024 song by Liquid Mike from Paul Bunyan's Slingshot

Television

• K2 (TV channel), an Italian television channel
• The K2, a 2016 South Korean television series

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• K2 (board game)
• Kill Me, Kiss Me or K2, a Korean comic series
• K-2SO, a character in the Star Wars movie Rogue One

Brands and enterprises

• Synthetic cannabinoids, which are colloquially known as and commonly sold under the name "K2"
• K2, second model of Larcum Kendall's clocks for navigation
• K2 Co., Ltd., Japanese video game developer owned by Capcom
• K2 Sports, American manufacturer of skiing, sliding, and rolling-sports equipment
• K2 Telecom, Ugandan mobile network operator in Uganda
• K2VC, Chinese venture capital firm
• Pentax K2, a camera model related to the Pentax K1000

Military

• K2 (airbase) or Karshi-Khanabad Air Base, an airbase in southeast Uzbekistan, between 2001 and 2005 used by the United States Air Force
• K-2, a circa-1938 airship
• Daewoo K-2, an assault rifle of the Republic of Korea Army
• K2 battlecruiser, a preliminary design in the studies leading up to the G3 battlecruiser
• K2 Black Panther, a South Korean main battle tank
• USS K-2 (SS-33), a 1913 United States Navy K-class submarine
• K2, a K-class sloop of the Royal Netherlands Navy
• Kalinin K-2, Soviet airliner

Science and healthcare

• K2, a mission of the Kepler spacecraft, also known as "Second Light"
• K2, a street name for synthetic cannabinoids
• K₂, a group in algebraic K-theory
• C/2017 K2, a non-periodic comet
• Haplogroup K2, human group sharing a Y-chromosome characteristic, a.k.a. haplogroup T
• Vitamin K₂
• Kardashev-2, a hypothetical civilization that uses all of the energy emitted by a star

Structures

• K2 (building), a residential & commercial building in Leeds, United Kingdom
• K2 Leisure Centre, a sports centre in Crawley, West Sussex

Transportation

• K-2 (Kansas highway)
• K2, a two-seater Sprint kayak
• Eurolot, IATA code K2
• Furness Railway K2, a 4-4-0 steam locomotive class
• LNER Class K2, a class of British steam locomotives
• GSR Class K2, a class of Irish 2-6-0 steam locomotives
• London Buses route K2, a Transport for London bus route
• PRR K2, a Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive classification
• Tatra K2, a 1966 Czechoslovak articulated tramcar
• Kia K2, a Chinese car produced by Dongfeng Yueda Kia

Other uses

• K2 (tax scheme), a Jersey tax avoidance scheme
• K2, a version of the red telephone box in the UK
• K2 League, a Korea league for association football

See also

• KATU, an ABC affiliate assigned to Portland, Oregon
• KTOO (disambiguation)
• KTWO (disambiguation)
• KK (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing k-2
• All pages with titles containing k2
• 2K (disambiguation)