科托努

The city of Cotonou (Benin) is written in Chinese as 科托努. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Kē tuō nǔ — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

科托努 is written with 3 characters: 科 (Kē), 托 (tuō), 努 (nǔ). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Cotonou.