K-Town

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The term K-Town is a common abbreviation or nickname for several different places:

• K-Town is used to refer to the city between Phoenix and Las Vegas Kingman, Arizona^{[citation needed]}
• K-Town is an area in the North Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois in which many street names begin with the letter "K".^[1]
• K-Town is also a common abbreviation for Koreatown, any region with a large Korean population contained within a larger non-Korean society.^{[citation needed]}
• K-Town is also used to refer to Kuna, Idaho^{[citation needed]}
• K-Town is also used to refer to Kansas City, Missouri^{[citation needed]}
• K-Town is also used to refer to Kenosha, Wisconsin^{[citation needed]}
• K-Town is also another name for Knoxville, Tennessee^{[citation needed]}
• K-Town is often used to refer to Kaiserslautern in Germany^[2]
• K-Town is also used to refer to Kenora, Ontario Canada^{[citation needed]}
• K-Town is also used to refer to Kitchener, Ontario Canada^{[citation needed]}
• K-Town is also used to refer to Kingston, Ontario Canada^{[citation needed]}
• K-Town is also use to refer to Kettering, Northamptonshire England^{[citation needed]}
• K-Town is also used to refer to Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England^{[citation needed]}
• K-Town is also used to refer to Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England^{[citation needed]}
• "K-Town" is an episode of the sci-fi TV series LEXX^{[citation needed]}
• K-Town is also used to refer to Kawerau, New Zealand^{[citation needed]}

1. ^ Although these long streets extend beyond the bounds of North Lawndale, published sources identify the name K-Town as referring specifically to an area of North Lawndale, i.e. the area through which these streets pass. See North Lawndale, Chicago.
2. ^ There are numerous references for Kaiserslautern beeing called K-town. Widest known is probably Reinhard Mey's Song "Alle Soldaten woll'n nach Haus", which begins with the words "In K-Town tief in Western Germany, zwischen Straßenstrich und Automarkt in der Prärie". Numerous web sites make passing reference to the term, see e.g, here, here, here (that's even an official press release of the City of Kaiserslautern) or even here.