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English Map showing location of South Korea Etymology From south Korea Korean
Pronunciation Proper noun South Korea
A country in East Asia Korean Peninsula . Official name: Republic of Korea Seoul 2024 January 9, “South Korea bans dog meat trade for human consumption”, in EFE the original on 10 January 2024 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 ( 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
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