Users
- People's Republic of China
- Republic of China
- Croatia
- Czechoslovakia (post 1945)
- Denmark
- East Germany
- Finland: Bought from Germans. Mainly used with the rifle grenade launcher attached
- France
- Germany
- Indonesia: The Indonesian National Military (TNI) used K 98k in Indonesian National Revolution and obtained the rifles captured from Dutch forces.
- Israel
- Luxembourg: The Grand Ducal Guard used captured German K98ks in 1945, later replaced by Ross rifles in the same year.
- Malaysia
- Nazi Germany
- Norway
- Netherlands: Post WWII use.
- Philippines: World War II and Hukbalahap Rebellion used by the Hukbalahap Communist fighters.
- Portugal
- San Marino: still used by the Guardia di Rocca.
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Sweden: Imported 5,000 Kar 98k rifles in 1939.
- Turkey
- Yugoslavia
- Pakistan (post 1945)
- Poland
- Ethiopia: Abyssinian patriots used captured K98ks against occupying Axis forces from 1941-onwards.
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