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. DokdoThe islands are also known as the Liancourt Rocks, a name given by a French whaling ship in 1849, and as Takeshima by the Japanese who claim sovereignty.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0 kr.
Photo: Ulleungdont, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Morales9199, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dokdo
- Type: Village with 34 residents
- Description: Islands that has two main island made out of rocks
- Categories: archipelago, disputed territory and locality
- Location: North Gyeongsang, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
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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
Q20317Dokdo Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- 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
- 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
- English: Dokdo-ri
- English: Liancourt Islands
- English: Liancourt Islets
- English: Liancourt Rocks
- English: Takeshima
- English: Tok Island
- English: Tok Islets
- Esperanto: Liancourt-Rokoj
- Esperanto: Takeŝima
- Esperanto: Tokto
- Finnish: Liancourtsaaret
- French: Dokdo
- French: Rochers Liancourt
- French: Takeshima
- French: rochers Liancourt
- 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
- Ido: Liancourt-roki
- Indonesian: Batu 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: 獨島
- Korean: 다케시마
- Korean: 독도
- Korean: 독도리
- Korean: 리앙쿠르바위
- Korean: 리앙쿠르섬
- Korean: 리앙쿠르 암초
- 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: Liancourtøyene
- Norwegian Bokmål: Liancourt-øyene
- 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(Rocas de Liancourt)
- Spanish: Rocas de Liancourt
- Spanish: Takeshima
- Swedish: Liancourtöarna
- Tagalog: Mga batong Liancourt
- 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
- Karang Liancourt
- Liancourtinluodot
- Take-shima
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Dokdo. Photo: Ulleungdont, CC BY-SA 3.0.