Dokdo
Dokdo is an island off the east coast of South Korea, next to the larger Ulleungdo island. It is made up of two islets, Seodo and Dongdo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 34 residents
- Description: Islands that has two main island made out of rocks between Japan and Korea
- Also known as: “Dokdo-ri”, “Hornet Islands”, “Kajido”, “Liancourt Islands”, “Liancourt Islets”, “Liancourt Rocks”, “Sambongdo”, “Take-shima”, “Takeshima”, “Tok Island”, and “Tok Islets”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Seodo and Eastern Liancourt Rocks.
Dokdo
- Categories: archipelago, disputed territory, protected area, and locality
- Location: North Gyeongsang, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.2407° or 37° 14′ 27″ northLongitude
131.8656° or 131° 51′ 56″ eastPopulation
34United Nations Location Code
KR DDOOpen location code
8Q9H6VR8+77OpenStreetMap ID
node 6144018982OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
8062537Wikidata ID
Q20317
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Dokdo” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rotse van Liancourt”
- Arabic: “صخور ليانكورت”
- Armenian: “Լիանկուր”
- Azerbaijani: “Liankur”
- Basque: “Liancourt arrokak”
- Bengali: “তাকেশিমা”
- Bengali: “দোকদো”
- Bengali: “লিয়ানকোর্ট দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Bengali: “লিয়ানকোর্ট রকস”
- Catalan: “Roques de Liancourt”
- Cebuano: “Dokdo”
- Cebuano: “Reef sa Liancourt”
- Cebuano: “Takeshima”
- Central Okinawan: “竹島”
- Chinese: “利扬库尔岩”
- Chinese: “利揚庫爾岩”
- Chinese: “独岛”
- Chinese: “独岛里”
- Chinese: “獨島”
- Chinese: “竹岛”
- Chinese: “竹島”
- Czech: “Takeshima”
- Czech: “Tokdo”
- Danish: “Liancourt-øerne”
- Dutch: “Rotsen van Liancourt”
- Esperanto: “Liancourt-Rokoj”
- Esperanto: “Takeŝima”
- Esperanto: “Tokto”
- Estonian: “Dokdo/Takeshima küsimus”
- Finnish: “Liancourtinluodot”
- Finnish: “Liancourtsaaret”
- French: “Dokdo”
- French: “rochers Liancourt”
- French: “Rochers Liancourt”
- French: “Takeshima”
- Georgian: “ლიანკურის კუნძულები”
- German: “Dokdo”
- German: “Hornet Islands”
- German: “Liancourt-Felsen”
- German: “Takeshima”
- Greek: “Ντόκτο-ρι”
- Greek: “Ντόκτο”
- Greek: “Τακεσίμα”
- Hakka Chinese: “獨島”
- Hakka Chinese: “竹島”
- Hebrew: “סלעי ליאנקור”
- Hindi: “ताकेशिमा”
- Hindi: “दोक्दो”
- Hungarian: “Liancourt-sziklák”
- Hungarian: “Tokto-szigetcsoport”
- Ido: “Liancourt-roki”
- Indonesian: “Batu Liancourt”
- Indonesian: “Karang Liancourt”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Dokdo”
- Indonesian: “Takeshima”
- Italian: “Rocce di Liancourt”
- Japanese: “リアンクール岩”
- Japanese: “リアンクール岩礁”
- Japanese: “リアンクール島”
- Japanese: “リャンコ島”
- Japanese: “独島”
- Japanese: “独島里”
- Japanese: “竹島”
- Korean: “Dokdo-ri”
- Korean: “가지도”
- Korean: “다케시마”
- Korean: “독도”
- Korean: “독도리”
- Korean: “리앙쿠르 암초”
- Korean: “리앙쿠르바위”
- Korean: “리앙쿠르섬”
- Korean: “삼봉도”
- Korean: “호넷섬”
- Korean: “獨島”
- Kurdish: “Qîşên Liancourtê”
- Latin: “Scopuli Liancourtenses”
- Literary Chinese: “獨島”
- Literary Chinese: “竹島”
- Lithuanian: “Dokdo”
- Lithuanian: “Liankūro Uolos”
- Malay: “Batu Liancourt”
- Malay: “Batuan Liancourt”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Liancourt-øyene”
- Norwegian: “Liancourtøyene”
- Persian: “صخرههای لیانکورت”
- Polish: “Dokdo”
- Polish: “Takeshima”
- Portuguese: “Rochedos de Liancourt”
- Romanian: “Stâncile Liancourt”
- Russian: “Лианкур”
- Russian: “Такэсима”
- Russian: “Токто”
- Samogitian: “Liankūra salas”
- Slovak: “Takeshima”
- Slovak: “Tokto”
- Slovenian: “Liancourtske čeri”
- Spanish: “Dokdo”
- Spanish: “Dokdo(Rocas de Liancourt)”
- Spanish: “Rocas de Liancourt”
- Spanish: “Takeshima”
- Swedish: “Liancourtöarna”
- Tagalog: “Mga batong Liancourt”
- Thai: “กองหินลีย็องกูร์”
- Turkish: “Liancourt Kayalıkları”
- Ukrainian: “Ліанкурові скелі”
- Uzbek: “Dokdo”
- Uzbek: “Liankur”
- Uzbek: “Takeshima”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Liancourt”
- Wu Chinese: “独岛”
- Wu Chinese: “竹岛”
- Yue Chinese: “獨島”
- Yue Chinese: “竹島”
- “Liankūra salas”
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