比勒陀利亚

The capital of Pretoria (South Africa) is written in Chinese as 比勒陀利亚. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Bǐ lè tuó lì yà — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

比勒陀利亚 is written with 5 characters: 比 (Bǐ), 勒 (lè), 陀 (tuó), 利 (lì), 亚 (yà). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Pretoria.