Basra in Chinese

巴士拉

Bā shì lā

City in Iraq

The city of Basra (Iraq) is written in Chinese as 巴士拉. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Bā shì lā — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

巴Bā
士shì
拉lā

巴士拉 is written with 3 characters: 巴 (Bā), 士 (shì), 拉 (lā). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Basra.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference