Koch may refer to:

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Koch (surname) Koch ( , , ) is a German surname that means "cook" or "chef". A–C * Adam Koch (born 1988), American professional basketball player * Adolf Koch (1896–1970), German school teacher and leader of the Freikörperkultur * Alan Koch (baseball) (bor ...

, people with this surname *

Koch dynasty Koch may refer to: People * Koch (surname), people with this surname * Koch dynasty, a dynasty in Assam and Bengal, north east India * Koch family * Koch people (or Koche), an ethnic group originally from the ancient Koch kingdom in north east ...

, a dynasty in Assam and Bengal, north east India *

Koch family The Koch family ( ) is an American family engaged in business, best known for their political activities and their control of Koch Industries, the 2nd largest privately owned company in the United States (with 2019 revenues of $115 billion). ...

Koch people The Koch are a small trans-border ethnic group of Assam and Meghalaya in India and northern Bangladesh. The group consists of nine matrilineal and strictly exogamous clans, with some of them preserving a hitherto sparsely documented Boro-Garo ...

(or Koche), an ethnic group originally from the ancient Koch kingdom in north east India **

Koch language Koch is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Koch people of Republic of India and Koch people in Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. Geographical distribution Koch is spoken in: *Assam: **Baksa district - Hodi or Koch Mandai **Darrang district - ...

, a language spoken in India and Bangladesh * Koch, an alternate name of the

Rabha tribe The Rabha are a Tibeto-Burman community to the Indian states of Assam, Meghalaya and West Bengal. They primarily inhabit the plains of Lower Assam and the Dooars, while some are found in the Garo Hills. Most of the Rabhas of Dooars refer to them ...

in northeast India and surrounding countries *

Koch Kingdom The Kamata Kingdom (pron: ˈkʌmətɑ) emerged in western Kamarupa probably when Sandhya, a ruler of Kamarupanagara, moved his capital west to Kamatapur sometime after 1257 CE. Since it originated in the old seat of the Kamarupa kingdom, ...

, in and around Assam

Places

* Koch (crater), a crater on the Moon * Koch, Iran (disambiguation), places in Iran * Koch, Łódź Voivodeship, a village in central Poland * Koch, Mississippi, United States *

Koch, South Sudan Koch is a community in Unity State, South Sudan, headquarters of Koch County. The community lies in Jagei Nuer territory. It is within the Block 5A oil concession. Between 1998 and 2003 the community was attacked many times by government-supporte ...

, a village in Unity State, South Sudan * Koch Bihar, a princely state in north east India *

Koch County Koch County is an administrative division of Unity State, South Sudan South Sudan (; din, Paguot Thudän), officially the Republic of South Sudan ( din, Paankɔc Cuëny Thudän), is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered by ...

, an administrative area in Unity State, South Sudan *

, Assam, 13th-16th centuries

Businesses

Koch Entertainment Koch Entertainment was an American record label and a distributor of film, television, and music. It was purchased by Canadian entertainment company Entertainment One in 2005. History First years The company began in 1975 as part of Koch Inter ...

LP, now known as E1 Entertainment **

Koch Records MNRK Music Group (pronounced "monarch", formerly known as Koch Records and eOne Music) is a New York City-based independent record label and music management company. It was formed in 2009 from the music assets of Koch Entertainment, which had ...

, former name of Entertainment One Music *

Koch Industries Koch Industries, Inc. ( ) is an American privately held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas and is the second-largest privately held company in the United States, after Cargill. Its subsidiaries are involved in the ...

, petroleum, chemicals, energy, and commodities trading *

Koch Media Plaion (formerly Koch Media) is a German-Austrian media company headquartered in Höfen, Tyrol, Austria, with an operating subsidiary based in Planegg, Germany. The company was founded in 1994 by Franz Koch and Klemens Kundratitz. The company ...

, a media distribution company from Germany * Koch Foods Poultry processor and distributor.

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Koch (boat) The koch ( rus, коч, p=ˈkotɕ, a=Ru-коч.ogg) was a special type of small one or two mast wooden sailing ships designed and used in Russia for transpolar voyages in ice conditions of the Arctic seas, popular among the Pomors. Because o ...

, a type of Arctic boat *

Koch method Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called ''dots'' and ''dashes'', or ''dits'' and ''dahs''. Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one of ...

of learning Morse Code *

Koch snowflake The Koch snowflake (also known as the Koch curve, Koch star, or Koch island) is a fractal curve and one of the earliest fractals to have been described. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Curv ...

or star, and Koch curve *

Koch's triangle Koch's triangle, named after the German pathologist Walter Koch, is an anatomical area located in the superficial paraseptal endocardium of the right atrium, which its boundaries are the coronary sinus orifice, tendon of Todaro, and septal leaf ...

, an anatomical area of the Human heart *

Koch's postulates Koch's postulates ( )"Koch"
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (Koch's bacillus), a bacterial species that causes tuberculosis * ''Koch'' (film), a 2012 documentary film about New York City mayor Ed Koch

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