AK explained

AK or A.K. may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• A.K. (film), a 1985 film directed by Chris Marker
• AK (radio program), a weekly program produced by Alaska Public Radio Network from 2003 to 2008, later a segment on Alaska News Nightly
• AK (rapper), also known as AK the Razorman, American rapper from Atlanta, Georgia, member of hip hop group P$C
• AK-47 (rapper), American rapper from Chicago, Illinois, member of hip hop group Do or Die
• AK the Savior, American rapper from Brooklyn, New York, member of The Underachievers
• Arknights, the Chinese mobile game developed by Hypergryph
• Ajith Kumar, Indian actor, commonly referred to as AK
• Ananda Krishnan, Malaysian broadcast and telecommunications businessman
• Anil Kapoor, Indian actor, often referred to simply as AK
  • AK vs AK, 2020 Indian film by Vikramaditya Motwane about Kapoor
• Ayushmann Khurrana, Indian actor and singer

Businesses and organizations

• AK Press, a collectively owned and operated independent publisher and book distributor that specializes in radical and anarchist literature
• AK Steel Holding Company, a US-based S&P 500 (NYSE:AKS) Steel Manufacturer
• Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, the Turkish Justice and Development Party
• Arbeiterkammer, the Austrian Chamber of Labour
• Armia Krajowa (Home Army), underground resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II
• Ajnad al-Kavkaz, a Chechen-led militia in the Syrian Civil War

Science

• • AK, the herbarium code for Auckland War Memorial Museum Patient AK, a 16-year-old female patient who laughed when her brain was stimulated with electric current during treatment for epilepsy
• Actinic keratosis, a skin condition
• Applied kinesiology, a method using manual muscle testing that purportedly gives feedback on the functional status of the body

Places

• Alaska, a state in the US whose postal abbreviation is "AK"
• Azad Kashmir, a region of Pakistan.

Transport

• AirAsia (IATA code AK), a Malaysia-based airline
• A US Navy hull classification symbol: Dry cargo ship (AK)
• New Zealand AK class carriage passenger carriages used by KiwiRail on their Great Railway Journeys of New Zealand

Other uses

• Akan language (ISO 639-1 code alpha-2 ak)
• Kalashnikov rifle (Avtomat Kalashnikova) an originally Soviet/Russian series of rifles, e.g. AK-47, AKM, AK-74, AK-101, AK-103, etc.
  • AK-47, shortened to "AK"
• Knight of the Order of Australia, awarded from 1976 to 1986, and 2014 to 2015
• Aktuaalne kaamera, a TV program of the Eesti Televisioon
• Polish: [[Armia Krajowa]], the primary resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II

See also

• Ak (disambiguation)