明尼阿波利斯

The city of Minneapolis (United States) is written in Chinese as 明尼阿波利斯. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Míng ní ā bō lì sī — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

明尼阿波利斯 is written with 6 characters: 明 (Míng), 尼 (ní), 阿 (ā), 波 (bō), 利 (lì), 斯 (sī). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Minneapolis.