瓜达拉哈拉

The city of Guadalajara (Mexico) is written in Chinese as 瓜达拉哈拉. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Guā dá lā hā lā — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

瓜达拉哈拉 is written with 5 characters: 瓜 (Guā), 达 (dá), 拉 (lā), 哈 (hā), 拉 (lā). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Guadalajara.