Republic of Korea

English

Alternative forms

• ROK (initialism)

Etymology

Calque of Korean 대한민국(大韓民國) (daehanmin'guk).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Map showing location of the ROK

the Republic of Korea

2. Official name of South Korea: a country in East Asia.
   • 1950 September 1, Harry S. Truman, 1:27 from the start, in MP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People‎^[1], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, via YouTube, National Archives Identifier: 595162:

     Our men have fought with grim gallantry. The soldiers of the Republic of Korea have also been fighting fiercely.

Related terms

• Korea
• Korean Peninsula
• Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Translations

official name of South Korea

• Afrikaans: Republiek van Korea
• Albanian: Republika e Koresë f
• Amharic: የኮርያ ሬፑብሊክ (yäkorya republik)
• Arabic: جُمْهُورِيَة كُورِيَا f (jumhūriyat kōriyā)
• Aragonese: República de Corea
• Armenian: Կորեայի Հանրապետություն (Koreayi Hanrapetutʻyun)
• Asturian: República de Corea
• Azerbaijani: Koreya Respublikası (az)
• Basque: Koreako Errepublika
• Belarusian: Рэспу́бліка Карэ́я f (Respúblika Karéja)
• Bengali: প্রজাতন্ত্রী কোরিয়া (projatontri kōriẏa)
• Bulgarian: Репу́блика Коре́я f (Repúblika Koréja)
• Burmese: ကိုရီးယားသမ္မတနိုင်ငံ (kuiri:ya:samma.ta.nuingngam), ကိုရီးယားသမ္မတ (kuiri:ya:samma.ta.)
• Catalan: República de Corea
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 大韓民國 / 大韩民国 (daai⁶ hon⁴ man⁴ gwok³)

  Hakka: 大韓民國 / 大韩民国 (Thai-hòn Mìn-koet)

  Hokkien: 大韓民國 / 大韩民国 (Tāi-hân Bîn-kok)

  Mandarin: 大韓民國 / 大韩民国 (zh) (Dàhán Mínguó)

• Corsican: Republica di Corea f, Ripublica di Corea f
• Crimean Tatar: Kоreya Cumhuriyeti
• Czech: Korejská republika
• Danish: Republikken Korea c
• Dutch: Republiek Korea f
• Esperanto: Korea Respubliko
• Estonian: Korea Vabariik (et)
• Finnish: Korean tasavalta (fi)
• French: République de Corée (fr) f
• Galician: República de Corea f
• Georgian: კორეის რესპუბლიკა (ḳoreis resṗubliḳa)
• German: Republik Korea (de) f

  Bavarian: Republik Korea f

• Greek: Δημοκρατία της Κορέας f (Dimokratía tis Koréas)
• Hebrew: רפובליקת קוריאה f
• Hindi: कोरिया गणराज्य m (koriyā gaṇrājya)
• Hungarian: Koreai Köztársaság (hu)
• Icelandic: Lýðveldið Kórea
• Ido: Republiko di Korea
• Indonesian: Republik Korea
• Irish: Poblacht na Cóiré f
• Italian: Repubblica di Corea f
• Japanese: 大韓民国 (ja) (だいかんみんこく, Daikan Minkoku)
• Kazakh: Корея Республикасы (kk) (Koreä Respublikasy)
• Khmer: សាធារណរដ្ឋកូរ៉េ (saathiərĕəʼnaʼrŏət kouree)
• Korean: 대한민국(大韓民國) (ko) (Daehanmin'guk)
• Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດເກົາຫຼີ (sā thā la na lat kao lī)
• Latin: Res publica Coreana f
• Latvian: Korejas Republika f
• Lithuanian: Korėjos Respublika
• Luxembourgish: Republik Korea
• Macedonian: Република Коре́ја f (Republika Koréja)
• Malagasy: Repoblikan'i Kôrea
• Malay: Republik Korea
• Maltese: Repubblika tal-Korea
• Marathi: कोरियाचे प्रजासत्ताक (koriyāce prajāsattāk)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Бүгд Найрамдах Солонгос Улс (Bügd Najramdax Solongos Uls), БНСУ (BNSU)

• Nepali: गणतन्त्र कोरिया (gaṇatantra koriyā)
• Norman: Républyique dé Corée f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Republikken Korea m

  Nynorsk: Republikken Korea m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: جُمْهوریِ کُرِه (jomhuri-ye kore)

• Polish: Republika Korei (pl) f
• Portuguese: República da Coreia f
• Romanian: Republica Coreea f
• Romansh: Republica Corea f
• Russian: Респу́блика Коре́я (ru) f (Respúblika Koréja)
• Scots: Republic o Korea
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Репу̀блика Коре́ја f

  Latin: Repùblika Koréja f

• Sicilian: Ripùbblica di Corea f, Ripùbbrica di Corea f
• Sinhalese: කොරියානු සමූහාණ්ඩුව (koriyānu samūhāṇḍuwa)
• Slovak: Kórejská republika f
• Slovene: Republika Koreja f
• Spanish: República de Corea f
• Swahili: Jamhuri ya Korea
• Swedish: Republiken Korea c
• Tamil: கொரிய குடியரசு (koriya kuṭiyaracu)
• Thai: สาธารณรัฐเกาหลี (sǎa-taa-rá-ná-rát gao-lǐi)
• Turkish: Kore Cumhuriyeti (tr)
• Ukrainian: Респу́бліка Коре́я f (Respúblika Koréja)
• Urdu: جَمْہُورِیَہ کورِیَا m (jamhūriya koriyā), جُمْہُورِیَہ کورِیَا m (jumhūriya koriyā)
• Uzbek: Koreya Respublikasi
• Vietnamese: Đại Hàn Dân Quốc (vi) (大韓民國)
• Welsh: Gweriniaeth Corea

See also

• Countries of the world