新西伯利亚

The city of Novosibirsk (Russia) is written in Chinese as 新西伯利亚. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Xīn xī bó lì yà — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

新西伯利亚 is written with 5 characters: 新 (Xīn), 西 (xī), 伯 (bó), 利 (lì), 亚 (yà). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Novosibirsk.