What’s the difference between manga, manhwa, and manhua?

With the rise of digital platforms, access to various visual media from across the globe has become fairly easy. What was considered weird and obscure in the past decade has become a normalized hobby at present, and it is something to celebrate. After all, not only are more and more manga titles coming to the West, but manhwa and manhua titles, too.

Those new to the hobby may make the easy mistake of thinking the three media are the same.