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 part of the Korean Peninsula. Official name: Republic of Korea. Capital: Seoul.
   • 2024 January 9, “South Korea bans dog meat trade for human consumption”, in EFE‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 January 2024‎^[2]:

     HSI data indicates that up to a million dogs are bred and sacrificed annually in South Korea for human consumption, even though demand is at a “historic low,” with about 6 million dogs residing in South Korean homes and 57 percent of the population supporting the ban.

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)
• Assamese: দক্ষিণ কোৰিয়া (dokhin küria)
• Asturian: Corea del Sur (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Cənubi Koreya
• Bashkir: Көньяҡ Корея (Könʹyaq 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.)
• Buryat: Урда Солонгос (Urda Solongos)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Ю́жна Коре́я f (Júžna Koréja)
• Catalan: Corea del Sud (ca) f,
• Chechen: Къилба Корей (Qʼilba Korej)
• 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
• Dzongkha: ལྷོ་ཀོ་རི་ཡ་ (lho ko ri ya)
• 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
• Italian: Corea del Sud (it) f
• Japanese: 韓国 (ja) (かんこく, Kankoku), コリア (ja) (Koria)
• Kannada: ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಕೊರಿಯಾ (dakṣiṇa koriyā)
• Kashubian: Pôłniowô Kòreja f
• 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)
• Latin: Corēa Merīdiōnālis f (New Latin)
• Latvian: Dienvidkoreja (lv) 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 f (definite)
• Marathi: दक्षिण कोरिया (dakṣiṇ koriyā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Өмнөд Солонгос (mn) (Ömnöd Solongos)

  Mongolian: ᠡᠮᠦᠨᠡᠳᠦ
  ᠰᠣᠯᠤᠩᠭᠤᠰ (emünedü soluŋɣus)

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

  Bokmål: Sør-Korea (no) n

  Nynorsk: Sør-Korea (nn) n

• Occitan: Corèa del Sud f
• Odia: ଦକ୍ଷିଣ କୋରିଆ (dôkṣiṇô koria)
• Okinawan: 韓国 (くゎんくく, Kwankuku)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Южьна Корєꙗ f (Južĭna Koreja) (modern)

• Ossetian: Хуссар Корей (Xussar Korej)
• Pashto: سويلي کوريا f (soeli koryā)
• Persian:

  Dari: کورِیَایِی جَنُوبِی (kōriyāyī janūbī), کورِیَایِ جَنُوبِی (kōriyā-yi 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:

  Gurmukhi: ਦੱਖਣੀ ਕੋਰੀਆ m (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
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Pódpołdnjowa Koreja f

  Upper Sorbian: 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
• Yakut: Соҕуруу Кэриэйэ (Soğuruu Kerieye)
• 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