伊斯兰堡

The capital of Islamabad (Pakistan) is written in Chinese as 伊斯兰堡. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Yī sī lán bǎo — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

伊斯兰堡 is written with 4 characters: 伊 (Yī), 斯 (sī), 兰 (lán), 堡 (bǎo). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Islamabad.