瓦加杜古

The capital of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) is written in Chinese as 瓦加杜古. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Wǎ jiā dù gǔ — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

瓦加杜古 is written with 4 characters: 瓦 (Wǎ), 加 (jiā), 杜 (dù), 古 (gǔ). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Ouagadougou.