KP

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KP may refer to:

Groups and organizations

• Kaiser Permanente, a U.S. health maintenance organization
• KP Snacks, a United Kingdom food manufacturer
• Kings Point, the US Merchant Marine Academy
• .kp, the Internet domain name for North Korea
• Kerala Police, the law enforcement agency for the state of Kerala, India.

In science

• Keratosis pilaris, a human genetic disorder, also known as "chicken skin"
• Kilogram-force ("kilopond"), a unit measure of force
• Kilopascal (kP), a unit of pressure
• Kilopixel (1,000 pixels), a measure of image resolution
• Kp (digraph)
• K_P, the equilibrium constant expressed in terms of partial pressures
• Kp index, a measure of the global average geomagnetic potential
• Kripke-Platek set theory, a mathematical axiom system

People

• A nickname of English statistician Karl Pearson
• A nickname of English radio producer and personality Karl Pilkington
• A nickname of English cricketer Kevin Pietersen
• KP, recording released by Kyle Patrick

Places

• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province in Pakistan
• North Korea, by ISO 3166 country code

Miscellaneous

• KP duty "kitchen police" or "kitchen patrol", U.S. military slang for mess-hall duties
• Knight of the Order of St. Patrick (postnomial KP)
• KP-bil, or Terrängbil m/42 KP, a Swedish armoured vehicle
• KP (newspaper), Ukrainian newspaper