Korean Origin Place Names

This is a list of place names in which the origin is Korean. Korean is the language spoken in South and North Korea.

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Chosun (Region & Country) Korean
Alternate transcription of Korean Hangul 조선 (see Joseon).

Corea (Country) Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Late Roman
Italian, Spanish and Catalan form of Korea, as well as the Latin form.

Corée (Country) French
French form of Korea.

Coreea (Country) Romanian
Romanian form of Korea.

Daehan (Country) Korean
From Sino-Korean 大 (dae) meaning "big, great" and 韓 (han) meaning "Korea". This is the official Korean name for South Korea.

Dogil (Country) Korean
Derived via Japanese from Dutch Duits meaning "German". This is the Korean name for Germany.

Donggyeong (Settlement) Korean
Korean form of Tokyo.

Goryeo (Region) Korean
Possibly means "walled city" or "center" in Korean. This was the name of a kingdom that ruled most of the Korean Peninsula. The name Korea is based on it.

Hanguk (Region) Korean
From Sino-Korean 韓 (han) meaning "Korea" and 國 (guk) meaning "country, land". This is the term used in South Korea to refer to South Korea or the entire Korean Peninsula.

Hyanghang (Political Subdivision, Settlement & Island) Korean
Korean variant form of Hong Kong.

Indo (Country) Japanese, Korean
Japanese and Korean form of India. It is usually written in katakana in Japan and Hangul in Korea.

Joseon (Region & Country) Korean
This was the name of two kingdoms in the history of Korea. The first was conquered by the Han Empire in the 2nd century BC. The second ruled Korea from the 14th century until the 19th century. The name of these kingdoms was written using the Sino-Korean characters 朝 (jo) meaning "dynasty" and 鮮 (seon) meaning "new", though the actual origin is assumed to be Korean. This name is now used in North Korea to refer to the country of North Korea.

Jungguk (Country) Korean
Korean form of Zhongguo.

Korea (Country) English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Czech, Greek, Georgian, Armenian, Indonesian, Malay, Tagalog
From medieval Latin Corea, itself derived from Goryeo, the name of a kingdom that ruled most of the Korean Peninsula from the 10th to 14th centuries. This is the name of two countries, North and South Korea. Hanguk and Joseon are the Korean names for the countries.

Koreya (Country) Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Hebrew
Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Kazakh and Hebrew form of Korea.

Koriya (Country) Hindi, Burmese
Hindi and Burmese form of Korea.

Miguk (Country) Korean
Korean form of Meiguo, referring to the United States of America.

Miju (Region) Korean
Korean form of Meizhou, referring to the continents of North and South America.

Monggo (Country, Political Subdivision & Region) Korean
Korean form of Mongolia.