塔那那利佛

The capital of Antananarivo (Madagascar) is written in Chinese as 塔那那利佛. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Tǎ nà nà lì fó — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

塔那那利佛 is written with 5 characters: 塔 (Tǎ), 那 (nà), 那 (nà), 利 (lì), 佛 (fó). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Antananarivo.