Illustration: In a Japanese school geography room, two children lean over an unlabeled relief globe turned toward East Asia. One fingertip rests on Japan and another on South Korea, with their hands almost touching across the sea between them.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

隣りん国ごく

ringoku

neighboring country

Example sentences

日本にっぽんと韓国かんこくは隣国りんごくです。
Japan and South Korea are neighbors.
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警察けいさつは彼かれを、隣国りんごくに情報じょうほうを流ながしたという罪つみに問とった。
The police charged him with leaking information to a neighboring country.
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その首相しゅしょうは隣国りんごくの圧力あつりょくに決けっして屈くっしなかったので一層人気いっそうにんきを増ました。
The Prime Minister became all the more popular because he never gave way to pressure from the neighboring country.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 隣国

隣neighboringOnリンKunとなる・となり
国countryOnコクKunくに

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