How do you say Noumea in Chinese?

Noumea in Chinese is 努美阿, pronounced Nǔ měi ā in Mandarin pinyin.

What is the Chinese name for Noumea?

The standard Chinese name for Noumea (New Caledonia) is 努美阿 (Nǔ měi ā).

Noumea in Chinese

努美阿

Nǔ měi ā

City in New Caledonia

The city of Noumea (New Caledonia) is written in Chinese as 努美阿. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Nǔ měi ā — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

努Nǔ

美měi

阿ā

努美阿 is written with 3 characters: 努 (Nǔ), 美 (měi), 阿 (ā). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Noumea.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference