South Korea

English

Map showing location of South Korea

Etymology

From south +‎ Korea, due to its southerly position on the Korean peninsula.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -iːə

Proper noun

South Korea

2. A country in East Asia, comprising the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. Official name: Republic of Korea.

Translations

a country in East Asia, comprising the southern half of the Korean Peninsula

• Abkhaz: Аладатәи Кореа (Aladatʷʼi Kʼorea)
• Afrikaans: Suid-Korea
• Albanian: Kore e Jugut f, Koreja e Jugut f (definite)
• Amharic: ደቡብ ኮርያ (däbub korya)
• Arabic: كُورِيَا الْجَنُوبِيَّة‎ f (kōriyā l-janūbiyya) (definite), كُورِيَا الْجَنُوبِيَّة‎ f (kūriyā l-janūbiyya) (definite)
• Armenian: Հարավային Կորեա (Haravayin Korea)
• Asturian: Corea del Sur (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Cənubi Koreya
• Bashkir: Көньяҡ Корея (Kön’yaq Koreya)
• Belarusian: Паўднёвая Карэ́я f (Paŭdnjóvaja Karéja)
• Bengali: দক্ষিণ কোরিয়া (bn) (dokkhin kōriẏa)
• Breton: Korea ar Su
• Bulgarian: Ю́жна Коре́я (bg) f (Júžna Koréja)
• Burmese: တောင်ကိုရီးယား (taungkuiri:ya:), ကိုရီးယားသမ္မတ (kuiri:ya:samma.ta.)
• Catalan: Corea del Sud (ca) f,
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 韓國／韩国 (yue) (hon⁴ gwok³), 南韓／南韩 (naam⁴ hon⁴)

  Mandarin: 韓國／韩国 (zh) (Hánguó), 南韓／南韩 (zh) (Nánhán)

• Corsican: Corea di u Sudu f, Curea di u Sudu f
• Crimean Tatar: Cenübiy Koreya
• Czech: Jižní Korea (cs) f
• Danish: Sydkorea (da) n
• Dhivehi: ދެކުނު ކޮރެއާ‎ (dekunu koreā)
• Dutch: Zuid-Korea (nl) n
• Esperanto: Sud-Koreio, Koreio Suda, Koreujo Sud-Koreujo, Koreujo Suda
• Estonian: Lõuna-Korea (et)
• Faroese: Suðurkorea n
• Finnish: Etelä-Korea (fi), Korean tasavalta (fi)
• French: Corée du Sud (fr) f
• Galician: Corea do Sur (gl)
• Georgian: სამხრეთი კორეა (ka) (samxreti ḳorea)
• German: Südkorea (de) n
• Greek: Νότια Κορέα (el) f (Nótia Koréa)
• Greenlandic: Korea Kujalleq
• Gujarati: દક્ષિણ કોરિયા (dakṣiṇ koriyā)
• Hausa: Koriya ta Kudu
• Hawaiian: Kōlea Hema
• Hebrew: דְּרוֹם קוֹרֵיאָה‎ f (dróm koréa), קוריאה הדרומית‎ f (koréa ha-dromít)
• Hindi: दक्षिण कोरिया (hi) m (dakṣiṇ koriyā)
• Hungarian: Dél-Korea (hu)
• Icelandic: Suður-Kórea (is) f
• Indonesian: Korea Selatan (id)
• Interlingua: Corea del Sud
• Irish: An Chóiré Theas f, Poblacht na Cóiré f
• Italian: Corea del Sud (it) f
• Japanese: 韓国 (ja) (かんこく, Kankoku), コリア (Koria)
• Kannada: ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಕೊರಿಯಾ (dakṣiṇa koriyā)
• Kazakh: Оңтүстік Корея (kk) (Oñtüstık Koreä)
• Khmer: កូរ៉េខាងត្បូង (km) (kouree khaang tboung)
• Korean: 남한(南韓) (ko) (Namhan) (in South Korea), 남조선(南朝鮮) (ko) (Namjoseon) (in North Korea), 한국(韓國) (ko) (Han'guk), 코리아 (Koria), 우리나라 (ko) (Urinara)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Koreya Başûr (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Түштүк Корея (ky) (Tüştük Koreya)
• Lao: ເກົາຫລີໃຕ້ (kao lī tai)
• Latvian: Dienvidkoreja f
• Lithuanian: Pietų Korėja (lt) f
• Macedonian: Ју́жна Коре́ја (mk) f (Júžna Koréja)
• Malay: Korea Selatan (ms)
• Malayalam: ദക്ഷിണ കൊറിയ (dakṣiṇa koṟiya)
• Maltese: il-Korea t'Isfel
• Marathi: दक्षिण कोरिया (dakṣiṇ koriyā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Өмнөд Солонгос (mn) (Ömnöd Solongos)

  Mongolian: ᠡᠮᠦᠨᠡᠳᠦ
  ᠰᠣᠯᠤᠩᠭᠤᠰ (ämünädü soluŋɣus)

• Navajo: Shádiʼááhjí Binááʼádaałtsʼózí Dineʼé Bikéyah Yázhí
• Nepali: दक्षिण कोरिया (dakṣiṇ koriyā)
• Norman: Corée du Sud f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Sør-Korea (no) n

• Occitan: Corèa del Sud f
• Odia: ଦକ୍ଷିଣ କୋରିଆ (dôkṣiṇô koria)
• Okinawan: 韓国 (くゎんくく, Kwankuku)
• Ossetian: Хуссар Корей (Xussar Korej)
• Pashto: سويلي کوريا‎ f (soeli koryā)
• Persian:

  Dari: کورِیَایِی جَنُوبِی‎ (kōriyāyī janūbī)

  Iranian Persian: کُرِهٔ جُنوبی‎ (fa) (kore-ye jonubi)

• Picard: Corée dech Sud
• Polish: Korea Południowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Coreia do Sul (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਦੱਖਣੀ ਕੋਰੀਆ (dakkhaṇī korīā)
• Rarotongan: Kōrea Tonga
• Romanian: Coreea de Sud (ro) f
• Romansch: Corea dal Sid f
• Russian: Ю́жная Коре́я (ru) f (Júžnaja Koréja)
• Scots: Sooth Korea
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ју̑жна̄ Корѐја f

  Roman: Jȗžnā Korèja (sh) f

• Silesian: Połedńowo Koryjo f
• Sinhalese: දකුණු කොරියාව (dakuṇu koriyāwa)
• Slovak: Južná Kórea f
• Slovene: Južna Koreja f
• Spanish: Corea del Sur (es)
• Swahili: Korea ya Kusini, Korea Kusini
• Swedish: Sydkorea (sv) n
• Tagalog: Timog Korea
• Tajik: Қурияи Ҷанубӣ (Quriyayi Janubī), Кореяи Ҷанубӣ (tg) (Koreyayi Janubī)
• Tamil: தென் கொரியா (teṉ koriyā)
• Tatar: Көньяк Корея (Kön’yak Qoreya)
• Telugu: దక్షిణ కొరియా (te) (dakṣiṇa koriyā)
• Thai: เกาหลีใต้ (th) (gao-lǐi-dtâai)
• Tibetan: ལྷོ་ཀོ་རི་ཡ (lho ko ri ya)
• Turkish: Güney Kore (tr)
• Turkmen: Günorta Koreýa
• Ukrainian: Півде́нна Коре́я (uk) f (Pivdénna Koréja)
• Urdu: جُنُوبی کورِیا‎ m (junūbī koriyā), جَنُوبی کورِیا‎ m (janūbī koriyā)
• Uyghur: جەنۇبىي چاۋشيەن‎ (jenubiy chawshyen)
• Uzbek: Janubiy Koreya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Hàn Quốc (vi) (韓國), Nam Hàn
• West Frisian: Súd-Koreä n
• Yiddish: דרום קאָרעע‎ f (dorem koree)
• Yoruba: Ariwa Kọria
• Zhuang: Hanzgoz

Republic of Korea — see Republic of Korea

See also

• Appendix:Countries and territories of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, East Timor, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen