Breed Names - Cattle Groups - COUNTRIES/AREAS OF ORIGIN

Kaarta (re. N’Dama of Kaarta) - Mali
Kabinburi - Thailand
Kabota (var. Borneo Zebu) - Indonesia
Kabuli (syn. Afghan) - Afghanistan
Kabyle (var. Brown Atlas) - Algeria
Kachcha Siri (re. Siri) - Nepal
Kachhi (syn. Bhagnari) - Pakistan
Kachhi (syn. Cutchi) - India
Kafkasya (syn. Caucasian, extinct) - Turkey/Türkiye
Kaiama (syn. Borgou) - Benin
Kaiama (syn. Keteku) - Nigeria
Kairyo-Washu (syn. Japanese Improved, extinct) - Japan
Kalakheri (var. Dangi) - India
Kalimag (syn. Kalmyk) - cow and calf - Mongolia
Kalmuk (extinct) - Turkey/Türkiye
Kalmyk - cow - Russia
Kamaduk - India
Kamasia - Kenya
Kamasia-Samburu - Kenya
Kamba - Kenya
Kamdhino (var. Bengali, extinct) - Bangladesh
Kamissi (syn. Jaulan) - Syria

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Kampete (syn. Bergscheck) - Austria
Kampeten (re. Bergscheck) - Austria
Kamphaengsaen - Thailand
Kanada (syn. Dangi) - India
Kandahari (var. Afghan) - Afghanistan
Kandahari (not syn. Red Kandhari)
Kandhari (re. Red Kandhari) - India
Kanem - Chad
Kangaian - Brazil
Kanganad (syn. Kangayam) - India
Kangayam - India
Kaningan (syn. Katingan) - Indonesia
Kankrej - cow - India
Kanvary (not syn. Alambadi)
Kao Lumpoon (syn. White Lamphun) - Thailand
Kaokoveld - cow - Namibia
Kaolib (not syn. Koalib)
Kapoeta (syn. Toposa) - Sudan
Kappiliyan (var. Jellicut) - India
Kapsiki (re. Chieftainry cattle) - bull - Cameroon

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Kara Sigir (var. Anatolian Black) - Turkey/Türkiye
Karacabey Brown (syn. Turkish Brown, extinct) - Turkey/Türkiye
Karacabey esmeri (syn. Turkish Brown, extinct) - Turkey/Türkiye
Karacabey Montafon (syn. Turkish Brown, extinct) - Turkey/Türkiye
Karacadag (extinct) - Turkey/Türkiye
Karachi, Red (syn. Red Sindhi) - Pakistan
Karadi (syn. Kurdi) - Iran
Karagwe Shorthorn (extinct) - Tanzania/Uganda
Karaisali (extinct) - Turkey/Türkiye
Karakalpak - Uzbekistan
Karamajong - Kenya/Sudan/Uganda

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Karamajong (group)

Karamajong (Large East African Zebu) cattle:
• Karamajong - Kenya/Sudan/Uganda
• Toposa - Sudan
• Turkana - Kenya/Uganda

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Karan Fries - India
Karan Swiss - cow - India
Karapokot - Kenya
Karavaevo (syn. Kostroma) - Belarus/Russia
Karayu (syn. Kereyu) - Ethiopia
Karelian (= East Finncatle, extinct) - Russia
Kárpáti borzderes - cow and calf - Hungary
Karradi (syn. Kurdi) - Iraq
Kärntner Blondvieh (syn. Carinthian Blond) - Austria
Kartsvieh (syn. Istrian) - Croatia
Kasaragod - India
Kashibi - South Africa
kata bizarrak (syn. Betizu) - Spain
Kataku (not syn. Keteku)
Kataku (syn. Borgou) - Benin
Katerini (var. Greek Steppe) - heifer calf - Greece
Kathani - India
Kathiawari (syn. Gir) - India
Kathiwari (syn. Gir) - India
Katingan (syn. Borneo Zebu) - Indonesia
Katonta - Myanmar
Kauvery (syn. Alambadi) - India
Kavango (re. Okavango) - Namibia
Kaveri (syn. Alambadi) - India
Kavirondo (syn Winam) - Kenya
Kavkasiuri tsabla (syn. Caucasian Brown) - Georgia
Kavkaskaia buraia (syn. Caucasian Brown) - Georgia
Kavkazskaya (syn. Caucasian) - Dagestan/Russia/Transcaucasian republics
Kavkazskaya buraya (syn. Caucasian Brown) - Azerbaijan
Kavuvu (syn. Govuvu, extinct) - Zimbabwe
Kawaminami (syn. Chuannan Mountainous) - China
Kawlib (syn. Nuba Mountain) - Sudan
Kazakh - young bull - China/Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan/Russia
Kazakh tsagaan tolgoit - cow and calf (2) - Mongolia
Kazakh Whiteheaded - cow - Kazakhstan

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KAZAKHSTAN - cattle breeds
(cow, bull, heifer, heifer calf, bull calf, ox, steer):
• Aberdeen-Angusskaya (syn. Aberdeen-Angus, imported)
• Ala-Tau - cow, bull - Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan
• Alatau (syn. Ala-Tau) - cow - Kazakhstan
• Aubrac (imported)
• Auliatinskaya (syn. Aulie-Ata) - Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan
• Aulie-Ata - Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan
• Aulieatin (syn. Aulie-Ata) - Kazakhstan
• Aulieatinskaya (syn. Aulie-Ata) - Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan
• Auliekol - Kazakhstan
• Bestuzhevskaya (syn. Bestuzhev, imported)
• Black-variegated - Kazakhstan
• Brown Swiss (imported)
• Charolais (imported)
• Galloway (imported)
• Grayish-brown (syn. Ala-Tau) - Kazakhstan
• Hereford (imported)
• Holstein black and mottled (syn. Holstein, imported)
• Holstein red-mottled (syn. Red Holstein, imported)
• Kalmyk (imported)
• Kazakh - young bull - China/Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan/Russia
• Kazakhskaya (syn. Kazakh) - Kazakhstan/Russia
• Kazakh Whiteheaded - cow - Kazakhstan
• Kazakhskaya Belogolovaya (syn. Kazakh Whiteheaded) - Kazakhstan
• Montbeliardskaya (syn. Montbéliarde, imported)
• Limousine (imported)
• Red Steppe (imported)
• Santa Gertrudis (imported)
• Simmental (imported)
• Yellowish-variegated - Kazakhstan

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Kazakhstan Black Pied - Kazakhstan
Kea (extinct) - Greece
Kedah-Kelantan - Malaysia
Keerqin - China
Kelantan (syn. Kedah-Kelantan) - Malaysia
Kelantan-Kedah (syn. Kedah-Kelantan) - Malaysia
Kelheimer (extinct) - Germany
Kemerovo (syn. Kemerovskaya, extinct) - Russia
Kemerovskaya (syn. Kemerovo, extinct) - Russia
Kemp (extinct) - South Africa
Kempen (syn. Belgian Red Pied) - Belgium
Kempense ras (syn. Campinoise) - Belgium
Kempisch (re. Belgian Red Pied) - Belgium
Kenana - Sudan
Kenia (not syn. Kinniya)
Kenkatha - India
Kenran - Japan
Kenwariya (syn. Kenkatha) - India
Kenwaryia (not syn. Kenkatha)

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KENYA - cattle breeds
(cow, bull, heifer, heifer calf, bull calf, ox, steer):
• Aberdeen Angus (imported)
• Akamba (syn. Kamba) - Kenya
• Avai (syn. Ethiopian Boran) - Kenya/Somalia
• Ayrshire (imported)
• Belgian Blue (imported)
• Boran - cow and calf - Ethiopia/Kenya/Somalia
• Borena (syn. Ethiopian Boran) - Kenya/Somalia
• Brown Swiss (imported)
• Charolais (imported)
• Dexter (imported)
• Duruma - Kenya
• East African Shorthorned Zebu (syn. Boran) - Kenya/Somalia
• East African Shorthorned Zebu (syn. Kamasia) - Kenya
• East African Shorthorned Zebu (syn. Kamba) - Kenya
• East African Shorthorned Zebu (syn. Kikuyu) - Kenya
• East African Shorthorned Zebu (syn. Maasai) - Kenya/Tanzania
• East African Shorthorned Zebu (syn. Nandi) - Kenya
• East African Shorthorned Zebu (syn. Samburu) - Kenya
• East African Shorthorned Zebu (syn. Winam) - Kenya
• Ethiopian Boran - cow - Ethiopia/Kenya/Somalia
• Friesian (syn. Holstein-Friesian, imported)
• Galla (syn. Ethiopian Boran) - Kenya/Somalia
• Galla Boran (var. Boran) - Kenya/Somali
• Galloway (imported)
• Giddu (syn. Jiddu) - Kenya/Somalia
• Giriama - Kenya
• Guernsey (imported)
• Hereford (imported)
• Highland Zebu (syn. Kikuyu) - Kenya
• Improved Boran (syn. Kenya Boran) - Kenya
• Jersey (imported)
• Jiddu - bull - Kenya/Somalia
• Kamasia - Kenya
• Kamasia-Samburu - Kenya
• Kamba - Kenya
• Karapokot - Kenya
• Kavirondo (syn. Winam) - Kenya
• Kenya Boran - Kenya
• Kenya Sahiwal - cow - Kenya
• Kenya Zebu - young bull - Kenya
• Kikuyu - cow - Kenya
• Kuria (syn. Watende) - Kenya
• Luhyia (syn. Winam) - Kenya
• Luo (syn. Winam) - Kenya
• Maasai - cow, heifer calf - Kenya/Tanzania
• Masai (syn. Maasai) - Kenya
• Macien (syn. Jiddu) - Kenya/Somalia
• Nandi - young bull - Kenya
• Nandi Blue (syn. Nandi) - Kenya
• NFD Boran - Kenya
• Orma Boran (var. Boran) - bull calf - Kenya
• Red Poll (imported)
• Sahiwal (imported)
• Samburu - Kenya
• Santa Gertrudis (imported)
• Serengi (syn. Tuni) - Kenya
• Serenli (syn. Tuni) - Kenya
• Simmental (imported)
• Somali Boran (syn. Ethiopian Boran) - Kenya/Somalia
• Sorco (syn. Jiddu) - Kenya/Somalia
• Sucra (syn. Jiddu) - Kenya/Somalia
• Suk - Kenya
• Surco (syn. Jiddu) - Kenya/Somalia
• Surco Sanga (syn. Jiddu) - Kenya/Somalia
• Surgo (syn. Jiddu) - Kenya/Somalia
• Surqo (syn. Jiddu) - Kenya/Somalia
• Surug (syn. Jiddu) - Kenya/Somalia
• Suruq (syn. Jiddu) - Kenya/Somalia
• Taita - cow - Kenya
• Tanaland Boran (syn. Ethiopian Boran) - Kenya/Somalia
• Teso - Kenya
• Tuni - Kenya
• Turgen (syn. Kamasia) - Kenya
• Turkana - Kenya/Uganda
• Ukamba (syn. Kamba) - Kenya
• Wakamba (syn. Kamba) - Kenya
• Watende - Kenya
• Winam - Kenya

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Kenya Boran - Kenya
Kenya Sahiwal - cow - Kenya
Kenya Zebu - young bull - Kenya

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Kenya Zebu (group, cluster) - Kenya

Kenya Zebu cattle:
• Kenya Zebu - young bull - Kenya
• Kikuyu - cow - Kenya
• Maasai - cow, heifer calf - Kenya/Tanzania
• Nandi - young bull - Kenya

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Kerala local - India
Kereyu (re. Abyssinian Shorthorned Zebu) - Ethiopia
Keriyu (syn. Afar) - Djibouti/Eritrea/Ethiopia
Kerry - cow - Ireland
Ketaku (syn. Borgou) - Benin
Ketari (syn. Borgou) - Benin
Keteku - Nigeria
Kettije (not syn. Keteku)
Khaila - Nepal
khainag - cow - Mongolia
Khairigarh (not syn. Kherigarh)
Khalit - cow (2) - Egypt
Khalkhingol (not syn. Halhïn gol)
Khalkhun Golun - heifer - Mongolia
Khamala - India
Khamissi (syn. Jaulan) - Syria
Khandari (not syn. Red Kandhari)
Khao Lumpoon (syn. White Lamphun) - Thailand
Khar tarlan - cow - Mongolia
Khargaon (syn. Nimari) - bull - India
Khargoni (syn. Nimari) - India
Khari (syn. Kherigarh) - India
Khariar - India
Kharigarh (syn. Kherigarh) - India
Khasi - India
Khasilum (syn. Masilum) - India
Khasimasi (syn. Masilum) - India
Kheri (syn. Kherigarh) - India
Kherigarh - India
Khevsurian (syn. Khevsurskaya gruppa) - Russia
Khevsurskaya gruppa (syn. Khevsurian) - Russia

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Khillari - bull - India
Khmer - Cambodia
Kho Chon (syn. Thai fighting bull) - Thailand
Kho Daeng Nan - Thailand
Kho Esan (syn. Kho Peun Muang Thai E-San) - Thailand
Kho Ki (syn. Kho Peun Muang Thai E-San) - Thailand
Kho Lan - Thailand
Kho Peun Nuang Thai E-San - Thailand
KhoDaeng (syn. Kho Daeng Nan) - Thailand
Kholmogorskaya (syn. Kholmogory) - Russia
Kholmogory (syn. Kholmogorskaya) - Russia
Kholmogory Hybrid - Russia
Kholmogosrkiy (syn. Kholmogory) - Tajikistan
Khorosanskiı̆ zebu (syn. Khurasani) - Turkmenistan
Khurasani (var. Central Asian Zebu) - Turkmenistan
Khurdi (not syn. Kurdi)
Khurgoni (syn. Nimari) - India
Kibris (var. Cyprus, extinct) - Cyprus
Kigezi - Uganda
Kigezi Shorthorn (extinct) - Uganda
Kikuyu - cow - Kenya
Kilakad (syn. Jellicut) - India
Kilakattu (syn. Jellicut) - India
Kilara (var. Shuwa) - Chad
Kilhari (not syn. Khillari)
Kilifi - Kenya
Kilimanjaro Zebu - Tanzania
Kilis (var. South Anatolian Red) - heifer calf - Turkey/Türkiye
Kilkad (syn. Jellicut) - India
Kilkaree (not syn. Khillari)
Killari (not syn. Khillari)
Kiloe (syn. Highland) - Scotland
Kimberley Shorthorn (syn. Australian Shorthorn) - Australia
Kinmen (re. Taiwan Yellow) - Taiwan
Kinniya (syn. Thamankaduwa) - Sri Lanka
Kirdi (syn. Kapsiki) - Cameroon
Kirdi (general term) - West Africa
Kirgiz (syn. Kazakh) - Kyrgyzstan

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KIRIBATI - cattle breeds
(cow, bull, heifer, heifer calf, bull calf, ox, steer):
• no cattle breeds listed

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Kirim (extinct) - Turkey/Türkiye
Kirko (syn. Lulu) - Nepal
Kirko (syn. Tibetan) - China/Nepal
Kisantu - DR Congo
Kistna Valley (syn. Krishna Valley) - India
Kivu - cow and bull - DR Congo
Kiwi Cross - New Zealand
KK (syn. Kedah-Kelantan) - Malaysia
Kladsko sudetský červený (syn. Kłodzka, extinct) - Poland
Kleiti (syn. Arab) - Israel
Kleiti (syn. Baladi) - Syria
Kleiti (syn. Jordan Baladi) - Jordan
Kleiti (syn. Lebanon Baladi) - Lebanon
Kłodzka (extinct) - Poland
Knar - Armenia
Koalib (syn. Nuba Mountain) - Sudan
Kobe - Japan
Kochi 高知家畜 (strain Japanese Brown) - bull and cow - Japan
Kôgyû (re. yellow cattle) - Japan
Köle (not syn. Göle)
Kolubara (syn. Kolubarska, extinct) - Serbia
Kolubarska (var. Serbian Steppe, extinct) - Serbia
Kombe - Angola
Konari (var. Afghan) - cow - Afghanistan
Kongu (syn. Kangayam) - India
Koni (not syn. Kuri)
Konkan (syn. Konkan Kapila) - India
Konkan gidda (syn. Konkan Kapila) - India
Konkan Kapila - India
Konkani (syn. Dangi) - India
Konkomba (syn. Somba) - Benin/Togo
Korean Black (syn. Jeju Black Cattle) - Korea

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KOREA - cattle breeds
(cow, bull, heifer, heifer calf, bull calf, ox, steer):
• Chikso 칡소 - bull - Korea
• Hanwoo 한우 - bull - Korea
• Heugu 한우 - cow - Korea
• Jeju Black Cattle 제주 흑우 - bull, bull calf - Korea
• Korean Native (syn. Hanwoo) - Korea
• Korean Native Striped (syn. Chikso) - Korea

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KOREA, REPUBLIC OF - cattle breeds see REPUBLIC OF KOREA (SOUTH KOREA)

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Korean Brown (syn. Hanwoo) - Korea
Korean Holstein - Korea
Korean Native (syn. Hanwoo) - Korea
Korean Native Striped (syn. Chikso) - Korea
Korthoring (syn. Beef Shorthorn) - South Africa
Korthorn - Denmark
Kortow synthetic line - Poland
Koruška plava (syn. Carinthian Blond) - Austria
Kosali - India
Kosi (syn. Bakosi) - Cameroon
Kosi (syn. Mewati) - India
Kostroma (syn. Kostromskaya) - Belarus/Russia
Kostroma Redish-Desert (syn. Kostroma) - Azerbaijan
Kostromskaya (syn. Kostroma) - Belarus/Russia
Kouprey - Cambodia/Laos/Viet Nam
Kouri (syn. Kuri) - Chad
Krasnaya belorusskaya (syn. Belarus Red) - Belarus
Krasnaya e͘stonskaya (syn. Estonian Red) - Estonia
Krasnaya gorbatovskaya (syn. Gorbatov Red) - Russia
Krasnaya kolonistskaya (obs. syn. Red Steppe) - Russia
Krasnaya litovskaya (syn. Lithuanian Red) - Lithuania
Krasnaya nemetskaya (syn. Red Steppe) - Russia
Krasnaya pol’skaya (syn. Polska czerwona) - Poland
Krasnaya stepnaya (syn. Red Steppe) - Russia
Krasnaya tambovskaya (syn. Tambov Red) - Russia
Krasnaya ukrainskaya (syn. Red Steppe) - Russia
Krasno-Astrakhanskaya (syn. Kalmyk) - Russia
Krasnobelorusskaya (syn. Belarus Red) - Belarus
Krasnoburaya latviı̆ skaya (syn. Latvian Brown) - Latvia
Krasnodarsk (syn. Kuban–Black Sea, extinct) - Russia
Krasnogorbatovskaya (syn. Gorbatov Red) - Russia
Krasnyı̆ megrelskiı̆ skot (syn. Mingrelian Red) - Georgia

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Kravařský (var. Czech Pied) - Czechia
Kréda - Chad
Kreda (syn. Red Bororo) - Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria
Krishna Valley - bull - India
Krishnagiri - India
Krisnagiri (not syn. Krishnagiri)
Krui - Indonesia
Kuantan - Indonesia
Kuban–Black Sea (extinct) - Russia
Kubano-Chernomorskayaya (syn. Kuban–Black Sea, extinct) - Russia
Kuburi (syn. Kuri) - Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria
Kuchinoshima 口之島牛 - cow - Japan
Kuhland (re. Kravařský) - Czechia
Kuhländer (syn. Kravařský) - Czechia
Kukku (not syn. Inkuku)
Kuku (not syn. Inkuku)
Kula (syn. Bulgarian Simmental) - Bulgaria
Kultak (extinct) - Turkey/Türkiye
Kumamoto 熊本種 (strain Japanese Brown) - bull - Japan
Kumauni - India
Kummet (syn. Bergscheck) - Austria
Kunar (not syn. Konari)
Kunari - Afghanistan
Kunene (re. Namibian Sanga) - Namibia
Kuramin (extinct) - Uzbekistan
Kuraminskii zebu (syn. Kuramin, extinct) - Uzbekistan
Kurdi - Iran/Iraq/Kurdistan
Kurgan - Russia
Kurganskaya (syn. Kurgan) - Russia
Kuri - cow, bull - Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria

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Kuri crossbred cattle - Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria

Kuri crossbred cattle:
• Jotko (Nigeria)
• Kanem (Chad)
• Toubou (Chad/Nigeria)

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Kuria (syn. Watende) - Kenya
Kuroge Washu (syn. Japanese Black) - Japan

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KUWAIT - cattle breeds
(cow, bull, heifer, heifer calf, bull calf, ox, steer):
• no cattle breeds listed

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Kwaniama - Angola
Kwavovu (syn. Govuvu, extinct) - Zimbabwe
Kyloe (syn. Highland) - cow - Scotland
Kyoga (var. Nganda) - cow - Uganda
Kypriaki (syn. Cyprus) - Cyprus

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KYRGYSTAN - cattle breeds
(cow, bull, heifer, heifer calf, bull calf, ox, steer):
• Ala-Tau - cow, bull - Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan
• Alatauskaya (syn. Ala-Tau) - cow - Kyrgyzstan
• Auliatinskaya (syn. Aulie-Ata) - Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan
• Aulie-Ata - Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan
• Aulieatinskaya (syn. Aulie-Ata) - Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan
• Black-Motley - Kyrgyzstan
• Kazakh - young bull - China/Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan/Russia
• Kyrgyz (syn. Black-Motley) - Kyrgyzstan

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Kyrgyz (syn. Black-Motley) - Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz Black-and-White - Kyrgyzstan
Kynuna Composite - Australia

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