Durban in Chinese

德班

Dé bān

City in South Africa

The city of Durban (South Africa) is written in Chinese as 德班. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Dé bān — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

德Dé
班bān

德班 is written with 2 characters: 德 (Dé), 班 (bān). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Durban.

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