No. Kilogram is a unit of mass only. Weight is measured in units of force; the SI unit for force is the Newton.
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The measurement abbreviated "kg" is the kilogram, or 1000 grams (often shortened to g). The kilogram is used in most of the world as one of the primary measurements of mass.
Unit of Measurement used when measuring Weight or Mass
Kilogram is a measure of mass but in common parlance "weight" is used to mean "mass" therefore one would normally use the kilogram. The difference between weight and mass is only important when you need to be scientifically rigorous. Then you would use Newtons which is the scientifically correct unit of weight.
The unit of measurement used to find the mass of a lion is typically expressed in kilograms (kg) or pounds (lbs). Mass is a measure of the amount of matter in an object, and in the case of a lion, it refers to the total weight of the animal. To determine the mass of a lion, a scale or balance would be used to accurately measure its weight in the appropriate unit of measurement.
there are no pounds in kilometres. pounds are used in mass and weight, and if you wanted to know how many pounds there were in a kilogram then that's different. there is 1000 grams in a kilogram and 500 pounds in one.