Lagos in Chinese

拉各斯

Lā gè sī

City in Nigeria

The city of Lagos (Nigeria) is written in Chinese as 拉各斯. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Lā gè sī — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

拉Lā
各gè
斯sī

拉各斯 is written with 3 characters: 拉 (Lā), 各 (gè), 斯 (sī). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Lagos.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference