Korea

See also: korea and Kórea

English

Wikipedia

Location of Korea

Alternative forms

• Corea

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹiə/, [kɵˈɹiə]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɪə/, [kɵˈɹɪə]
• Homophone: career (non-rhotic)

Etymology

From Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

Proper noun

Korea (plural Koreas)

1. An ancient country in East Asia. Since World War II, Korea has been divided into two sovereign states, commonly called South Korea and North Korea in the US, or Korea and North Korea in the UK.
2. An informal name for the Republic of Korea (South Korea) or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
3. Informal term for the Korean Peninsula

Derived terms

• Korean

Translations

ancient country or both Koreas as a whole

• Afrikaans: Korea
• Albanian: Koreja f
• Arabic: كوريا f (kūriya)
• Armenian: Կորեա (Korea)
• Asturian: Corea (ast) f
• Azeri: Koreya
• Belarusian: Карэ́я f (Karéja)
• Bengali: কোরিয়া (koriẏa)
• Buginese: ᨀᨚᨑᨗᨕ
• Bulgarian: Коре́я f (Koréja)
• Burmese: ကိုရီးယား (kuiri:ya:)
• Catalan: Corea f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 朝鮮 (zh), 朝鲜 (zh) (Cháoxiān) (the area of both Koreas), 北朝鮮, 北朝鲜 (zh) (Běi Cháoxiǎn) (North Korea), 韓國, 韩国 (zh) (Hánguó) (South Korea)

• Czech: Korea (cs) f
• Danish: Korea
• Dutch: Korea (nl)
• Esperanto: Koreujo
• Estonian: Korea (et)
• Finnish: Korea (fi)
• French: Corée (fr) f
• Georgian: კორეა (korea)
• German: Korea (de) n
• Greek: Κορέα (el) f (Koréa)
• Gujarati: કોરિયા (kōriyā)
• Hawaiian: Kōlea
• Hebrew: קוריאה (koriah)
• Hindi: कोरिया (hi) m (koriyā)
• Hungarian: Korea (hu)
• Icelandic: Kórea (is) f
• Indonesian: Korea (id)
• Interlingua: Corea
• Irish: An Chóiré f
• Italian: Corea (it) f
• Japanese: 朝鮮 (ja) (ちょうせん, Chōsen) (the area of both Koreas); 北朝鮮 (ja) (きたちょうせん, Kitachōsen) (North Korea); 韓国 (ja) (かんこく, Kankoku) (South Korea); 朝鮮半島 (ちょうせんはんとう, Chōsen-hantō) (Korean peninsula), コリア (Koria)
• Kalenjin: Korea
• Kamba: Korea
• Kannada: ಕೊರಿಯಾ (koriyā)
• Kazakh: Корея (Koreya)
• Khmer: កូរ៉េ (km) (kōrē)
• Kikuyu: ko
• Korean: 조선 (ko) (Joseon) (朝鮮 (ko)) ((north)); 한국 (ko) (Hanguk) (韓國 (ko)) ((South)); 고려 (ko) (Goryeo) (高麗 (ko)) (historical, Goguryeo), 코리아 (Koria)

• Kyrgyz: Корея (Koreya)
• Lao: ເກົາຫລີ (kao lī)
• Latin: Corea (la) f
• Latvian: Koreja f
• Lithuanian: Korėja (lt) f
• Luhya: Korea
• Luo: Korea
• Macedonian: Коре́ја (mk) f (Koréja)
• Malay: Korea
• Malayalam: കൊറിയ (koṟiya)
• Maltese: il-Korea f
• Marathi: कोरिया (kōriyā)
• Meru: Korea
• Mongolian: Солонгос (mn) (Solongos)
• Navajo: Kolíya bikéyah
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Korea

• Ossetian: Корей (Korej)
• Persian: کره (fa) (Kore)
• Polish: Korea (pl) f
• Portuguese: Coreia f, Coréia f (Brazil)
• Romanian: Coreea f
• Romansch: Corea f
• Russian: Коре́я (ru) f (Koréja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Коре́ја f

  Roman: Koréja f

• Sinhalese: කොරියාව (koriyāva)
• Slovak: Kórea f
• Slovene: Korêja f
• Spanish: Corea (es) f
• Swahili: Korea
• Swedish: Korea (sv)
• Tagalog: Korea
• Tajik: Қурия (Quriya)
• Tamil: கொரியா (ta) (koriyā)
• Tatar: Корея (Qoreya)
• Telugu: కొరియా (te) (koriyā)
• Thai: เกาหลี (th) (kaoli), ประเทศเกาหลี (th) (prathet kaoli)
• Turkish: Kore (tr)
• Turkmen: Koreýa
• Ukrainian: Коре́я f (Koréja)
• Urdu: کوریا m (koriyā)
• Uzbek: Koreya
• Vietnamese: Triều Tiên (vi) (朝鮮) Đại Hàn (both Koreas), Bắc Triều Tiên (北朝鮮) (North Korea), Hàn Quốc (vi) (韓國) (South Korea)
• Welsh: Corea

South Korea — see South Korea

North Korea — see North Korea

See also

• Names of Korea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Names of Korea

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Czech

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Korea f

1. Korea

Related terms

• korejský
• Korejec
• Korejka

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Faroese

Wikipedia ^fo

Korea

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰoˈɹeː.a/

Etymology

Ultimately, from Korean 고려 (Goryeo).

Proper noun

Korea n

1. Korea

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Korea
Accusative	Korea
Dative	Korea
Genitive	Korea

Derived terms

• koreanskur
• Norðurkorea
• Suðurkorea

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Finnish

Etymology

From Korean 고려 (goryeo)

Noun

Korea

1. Korea

Declension

Inflection of Korea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)

		singular	plural
nominative		Korea	—
accusative	nom.?	Korea	—
	gen.	Korean
genitive		Korean	—
partitive		Koreaa	—
inessive		Koreassa	—
elative		Koreasta	—
illative		Koreaan	—
adessive		Korealla	—
ablative		Korealta	—
allative		Korealleˣ	—
essive		Koreana	—
translative		Koreaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Koreatta	—
comitative		—	—

See also

• Pohjois-Korea
• Etelä-Korea
• korealainen
• eteläkorealainen
• pohjoiskorealainen
• korea

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German

Wikipedia ^de

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈʀeːaː/

• audio

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Proper noun

Korea n (genitive Koreas)

1. Korea

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Norwegian

Etymology

From Korean 고려 (goryeo)

Proper noun

Korea

1. Korea

Related terms

• Nord-Korea, Sør-Korea
• korean, koreaner, nordkorean, nordkoreaner, sørkorean, sørkoreaner
• koreansk, nordkoreansk, sørkoreansk

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Polish

Map of Korea

Etymology

From Korean 고려 (goryeo)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔˈrɛa/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Korea f

1. Korea

Declension

declension of Korea

	singular only
nominative	Korea
genitive	Korei
dative	Korei
accusative	Koreę
instrumental	Koreą
locative	Korei
vocative	Koreo

Derived terms

• Koreańczyk m, Koreanka f
• adjective: koreański

Related terms

• Korea Północna, Korea Południowa

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Swedish

Etymology

From Korean 고려 (goryeo)

Noun

Korea

1. Korea

See also

• Nordkorea
• Sydkorea
• korean
• koreansk
• koreanska