Republic of Korea

English

Alternative forms

ROK (initialism)

Etymology

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

Proper noun

the Republic of Korea

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, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
  Our men have fought with grim gallantry. The soldiers of the Republic of Korea have also been fighting fiercely.

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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
Bavarian: Republik Korea f
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
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: សាធារណរដ្ឋ កូរ៉េ (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
Romansch: Republica Corea f
Russian: Респу́блика Коре́я (ru) f (Respúblika Koréja)
Scots: Republic o Korea
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Репу̀блика Коре́ја f

Roman: 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: สาธารณรัฐ เกาหลี (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

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