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Korea

Korea is a peninsula in occupied by two countries sharing a common culture, commonly called North Korea and South Korea. Korea is connected by land to Northeast China and the to the north, across the Yellow Sea from to its west, separated from by the Sea of Japan to its east, and separated from by the East China Sea to its south.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Panmunjeom.

Photo: Kok Leng Yeo, CC BY 2.0.
, also P'anmunjŏm, is on the demarcation line between and . It is a living relic of the Cold War era. It can only be visited on an organized tour.

Korea

Latitude of center
38.3258° or 38° 19′ 33″ north
Longitude of center
127.2481° or 127° 14′ 53″ east
Wiki­data ID
Q18097
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Korea” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Korea”
  • Amharic: “ኮርያ”
  • Arabic: “كوريا”
  • Aragonese: “Corea”
  • Aragonese: “Coreya”
  • Armenian: “Կորեա”
  • Asturian: “Corea”
  • Azerbaijani: “Koreya”
  • Banjar: “Koréa”
  • Basque: “Korea”
  • Bavarian: “Korea”
  • Belarusian: “Карэя”
  • Bengali: “কোরিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Koreja”
  • Brahui: “Koríá”
  • Breton: “Korea”
  • Bulgarian: “Корея”
  • Burmese: “ကိုရီးယားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Corea”
  • Central Bikol: “Korea”
  • Central Kanuri: “Korea”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆریا”
  • Central Okinawan: “こーれー”
  • Central Okinawan: “高麗”
  • Chavacano: “Corea”
  • Chinese: “Tiâu-sián”
  • Chinese: “朝鮮”
  • Chinese: “朝鮮地区”
  • Chinese: “朝鮮地區”
  • Chinese: “朝鲜”
  • Chinese: “朝鲜地区”
  • Chinese: “韓國”
  • Cornish: “Korea”
  • Corsican: “Corea”
  • Corsican: “Curea”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Koreya”
  • Croatian: “Koreja”
  • Czech: “Korea”
  • Danish: “Korea”
  • Dutch: “Korea”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوريا”
  • Esperanto: “Koreio”
  • Esperanto: “Koreo”
  • Esperanto: “Koreujo”
  • Estonian: “Korea”
  • Faroese: “Korea”
  • Finnish: “Korea”
  • French: “Core’e”
  • French: “Coree”
  • French: “Corée”
  • Friulian: “Coree”
  • Galician: “Corea”
  • Georgian: “კორეა”
  • German: “Korea”
  • Greek: “Κορέα”
  • Guarani: “Korea”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Chêu-sién”
  • Hawaiian: “Kōlea”
  • Hebrew: “קוריאה”
  • Hindi: “कोरिया”
  • Hungarian: “Korea”
  • Icelandic: “Kóreuskagi”
  • Ido: “Korea”
  • Igbo: “Korea”
  • Inari Sami: “Korea”
  • Indonesian: “Korea”
  • Interlingua: “Corea”
  • Irish: “an Chóiré”
  • Irish: “An Chóiré”
  • Irish: “Cóiré”
  • Italian: “Corea”
  • Japanese: “朝鮮”
  • Javanese: “Koréa”
  • Kabyle: “Kurya”
  • Kalmyk: “Солңһудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊರಿಯ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Корея”
  • Kashmiri: “کوریا( پێنِنسیوٗلا)”
  • Kashmiri: “کوریا”
  • Kashubian: “Kòreja”
  • Kazakh: “Корея”
  • Khmer: “កូរ៉េ”
  • Kirghiz: “Корея”
  • Kongo: “Hangu ya Node”
  • Korean: “남북조선”
  • Korean: “남북한”
  • Korean: “북남조선”
  • Korean: “조선”
  • Korean: “코리아”
  • Korean: “한국”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດເກົາຫຼີ”
  • Latin: “Corea”
  • Latvian: “Koreja”
  • Limburgan: “Korea”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Corea”
  • Lithuanian: “Korėja”
  • Lojban: “dcosyn/xanguk”
  • Lombard: “Corea”
  • Low German: “Korea”
  • Luxembourgish: “Korea”
  • Macedonian: “Кореја”
  • Malagasy: “Korea”
  • Malagasy: “Kôrea”
  • Malay: “Korea”
  • Malay: “کوريا”
  • Malayalam: “കൊറിയ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯣꯔꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Maori: “Koria”
  • Marathi: “कोरिया”
  • Mazanderani: “وون”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dièu-siēng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tiâu-sián”
  • Mingrelian: “კორეა”
  • Mongolian: “Солонгос”
  • Mongolian: “ᠰᠣᠯᠣᠩ᠌ᠭ᠋᠋ᠣᠰ”
  • N'Ko: “ߞߏ߯ߙߋ߫”
  • Navajo: “Binááʼádaałtsʼózí Dineʼé Bikéyah Yázhí”
  • Nepali: “कोरिया”
  • Northern Sami: “Korea”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Korea”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Korea”
  • Norwegian: “Korea”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Corèa”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Corea”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Corēa”
  • Ossetian: “Корей”
  • Pali: “कोरिया”
  • Pampanga: “Korea”
  • Pangasinan: “Korea”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੋਰੀਆ”
  • Persian: “کره”
  • Polish: “Korea”
  • Portuguese: “Coreia”
  • Pushto: “کوریا”
  • Quechua: “Kuriya”
  • Quechua: “Kuryusuyu”
  • Romanian: “Coreea”
  • Romansh: “Corea”
  • Russia Buriat: “Солонгос”
  • Russian: “Корея”
  • Samoan: “Kolea”
  • Samogitian: “Kuoriejė”
  • Sanskrit: “कोरिया”
  • Sardinian: “Corea”
  • Sardinian: “Corèa”
  • Scots: “Korea”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Coirea”
  • Serbian: “Кореја”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Koreja”
  • Sicilian: “Corea”
  • Skolt Sami: “Korea”
  • Slovak: “Kórea”
  • Slovenian: “Koreja”
  • Somali: “Kuuriya”
  • Spanish: “Corea”
  • Sundanese: “Koréa”
  • Swahili: “Rasi ya Korea”
  • Swedish: “Korea”
  • Swiss German: “Korea”
  • Sylheti: “ꠇꠥꠞꠤꠀ”
  • Tagalog: “Korea”
  • Tajik: “Давлати Карея”
  • Tajik: “Корея”
  • Tajik: “Куриё”
  • Talysh: “Korejə”
  • Tamil: “கொரியா”
  • Tatar: “Корея”
  • Telugu: “కొరియా”
  • Thai: “เกาหลี”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเกาหลี”
  • Tibetan: “ཀོ་རི་ཡ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Koria”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Korea”
  • Tswana: “Korea”
  • Turkish: “Kore”
  • Uighur: “چاۋشىيەن يېرىم ئارىلى”
  • Uighur: “چاۋشيەن”
  • Ukrainian: “Корея”
  • Urdu: “کوریا”
  • Uzbek: “Koreya”
  • Venetian: “Corea”
  • Vietnamese: “bán đảo Triều Tiên”
  • Vietnamese: “Triều Tiên”
  • Vlaams: “Korea”
  • Võro: “Korea”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Korea”
  • Welsh: “Corea”
  • Western Armenian: “Քորէա”
  • Western Armenian: “Քորիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Koreä”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوریا”
  • Wu Chinese: “朝鲜”
  • Yiddish: “קארעע”
  • Yoruba: “Korea”
  • Yue Chinese: “Corea”
  • Yue Chinese: “朝鮮”
  • Zeeuws: “Korea”
  • Zulu: “i-Korea”
  • “Coree”
  • “Korea”
  • “Kuoriejė”

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