อาณาจักรโคกูรยอ เป็นหนึ่งในสามราชอาณาจักรเกาหลี ผู้ปกครองโคกูรยอจะดำรงพระอิสริยยศเป็นฮวังเจหรือพระราชาธิราช

หมายเหตุ:

1.Some of Goguryeo's own records of individual kings, especially of the 19th (Gwanggaeto), use the title "Taewang" or "Hotaewang", roughly meaning Greatest King or Very Greatest King. Some argue that the title should be translated as "Emperor," equivalent of the Chinese title 皇帝, but this is not widely accepted. The most complete and oldest existing Korean history text, the Samguk Sagi and the Samguk Yusa, written centuries after Goguryeo was defeated, uses the title "Wang", meaning King.

2.The king names generally derive from the location of the king's burial, and do not necessarily correspond to the Chinese concept of 諡號.

3.Goguryeo kings had the surname Go, except for the second (Yuri) through fifth (Mobon), whose surnames are recorded as Hae. All of the kings are recorded to belong to the same patrilineal bloodline. It is not clear whether the two surnames are different transcription of the same name, or evidence of a power struggle.

4.ตามพงศาวดารซัมกุก ซากี (บันทึกประวัติศาสตร์สามก๊กของเกาหลี) และบันทึกประวัติศาสตร์เกาหลีอื่น ๆ จะมีการแบ่งพระนามอื่น ๆ ของกษัตริย์ ได้แก่ "ชื่อเรียกอื่น ๆ " "ชื่อแรกเกิด" "ชื่อของพระองค์เอง"

5.The Legendary line names and dates are from the Samguk Sagi. The Wei shu (History of the Wei dynasty) gives the following names: 朱蒙 Jumong, 閭達 Yeodal, 始閭諧 Shiryeohae, 如栗 Yeoyul, and 莫來 Mangnae. The legendary line had already been formed with some variants in the early 5th century when king Jangsu built a monument for his father and Goguryeo made contact with the Northern Wei. The inscription of that monument gives these names: 鄒牟 Chumo, 儒留 Yuryu, and 大朱留 Daejuryu. The connections between those names are not clear.

Sources: http://kdaq.empas.com/koreandb/history/koreanking/html/person/koguryeo_king.html (The Academy of Korean Studies) and http://enc.daum.net/dic100//topView.do (Korea Britannica Corp.)