约翰内斯堡

The city of Johannesburg (South Africa) is written in Chinese as 约翰内斯堡. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Yuē hàn nèi sī bǎo — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

约翰内斯堡 is written with 5 characters: 约 (Yuē), 翰 (hàn), 内 (nèi), 斯 (sī), 堡 (bǎo). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Johannesburg.