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
  • K<sub>2</sub>, 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 K<sub>2</sub>
  • 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

  • K02 or Mobile Police Command, a unit under the Vietnam People's Public Security Force
  • KATU, an ABC affiliate assigned to Portland, Oregon
  • KTOO (disambiguation)
  • KTWO (disambiguation)
  • KK (disambiguation)
  • 2K (disambiguation)