巴马科

The capital of Bamako (Mali) is written in Chinese as 巴马科. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Bā mǎ kē — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

巴马科 is written with 3 characters: 巴 (Bā), 马 (mǎ), 科 (kē). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Bamako.