Kinshasa in Chinese

金沙萨

Jīn shā sà

Capital of Democratic Republic of the Congo

The capital of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo) is written in Chinese as 金沙萨. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Jīn shā sà — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

Jīn
shā

金沙萨 is written with 3 characters: (Jīn), (shā), (). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Kinshasa.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference