African Countries in Chinese

African Countries in Chinese Posted by sasha on Feb 9, 2016 in Vocabulary

We’ve been learning all the countries around the world in Chinese bit by bit over the past few months. Last month, I also wrote a post on how to talk about “Countries, Nationalities, and Languages” in Chinese. Now we’re heading to the continent with the most countries – Africa (非洲 – fēi zhōu).

Mother elephant with twins in Kenya. Image by Diana Robinson from flickr.com.

There are 54 sovereign states in Africa, and here they all are in alphabetical order along with their Chinese names and pinyin transliterations:

English	Chinese	Pinyin
Algeria	阿尔及利亚	Ā’ěr jí lì yǎ
Angola	安哥拉	Ān gē lā
Benin	贝宁	bèi níng
Botswana	博茨瓦纳	bó cí wǎ nà
Burkina Faso	布基纳法索	bù jī nà fǎ suǒ
Burundi	布隆迪	bù lóng dí
Cameroon	喀麦隆	kā mài lóng
Cape Verde	佛得角	fú dé jiǎo
Central African Republic	中非共和国	zhōng fēi gòng hé guó
Chad	乍得	zhà dé
Comoros	科摩罗	kē mó luó
Congo, Republic of the	刚果共和国	gāng guǒ gòng hé guó
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	刚果民主共和国	gāng guǒ mín zhǔ gòng hé guó
Djibouti	吉布提	jíbùtí
Egypt	埃及	Āi jí
Equatorial Guinea	赤道几内亚	chì dào jǐ nèi yǎ
Eritrea	厄立特里亚	È lì tè lǐ yǎ
Ethiopia	埃塞俄比亚	Āi sāi é bǐ yǎ
Gabon	加蓬	jiā péng
Gambia	冈比亚	gāng bǐ yǎ
Ghana	加纳	jiā nà
Guinea	几内亚	jǐ nèi yǎ
Guinea-Bissau	几内亚比绍	jǐ nèi yǎ bǐ shào
Ivory Coast	象牙海岸	xiàng yá hǎi àn
Kenya	肯尼亚	kěn ní yǎ
Lesotho	莱索托	lái suǒ tuō
Liberia	利比里亚	lì bǐ lǐ yǎ
Libya	利比亚	lì bǐ yǎ
Madagascar	马达加斯加	mǎ dá jiā sī jiā
Malawi	马拉维	mǎ lā wéi
Mali	马里	mǎ lǐ
Mauritania	毛里塔尼亚	máo lǐ tǎ ní yǎ
Mauritius	毛里求斯	máo lǐ qiú sī
Morocco	摩洛哥	mó luò gē
Mozambique	莫桑比克	mò sāng bǐ kè
Namibia	纳米比亚	nà mǐ bǐ yǎ
Niger	尼日尔	ní rì ěr
Nigeria	奈及利亞	nài jí lì yǎ
Rwanda	卢旺达	lú wàng dá
Sao Tome and Principe	圣多美和普林西比	shèng duō měi hé pǔ lín xī bǐ
Senegal	塞内加尔	sài nèi jiā ěr
Seychelles	塞舌尔	sāi shé ěr
Sierra Leone	塞拉利昂	sè lā lì áng
Somalia	索马利亚	suǒ mǎ lǐ yǎ
South Africa	南非	nán fēi
South Sudan	南苏丹	nán sū dān
Sudan	苏丹	sū dān
Swaziland	斯威士兰	sī wēi shì lán
Tanzania	坦桑尼亚	tǎn sāng ní yǎ
Togo	多哥	duō gē
Tunisia	突尼斯	tú ní sī
Uganda	乌干达	wū gān dá
Zambia	赞比亚	zàn bǐ yǎ
Zimbabwe	辛巴威	xīn bā wēi

There are about 1 million Chinese people who now live in Africa, and trade between China and the continent is expected to be worth upwards of $200 billion. Obviously, the relationship between China and Africa is quite important and growing more so with each passing year. So, what do ordinary Chinese people think of Africa? Check out this interesting video to see what three young Chinese who have never been there think of the continent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNU7N1GCNU8

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About the Author: sasha

Sasha is an English teacher, writer, photographer, and videographer from the great state of Michigan. Upon graduating from Michigan State University, he moved to China and spent 5+ years living, working, studying, and traveling there. He also studied Indonesian Language & Culture in Bali for a year. He and his wife run the travel blog Grateful Gypsies, and they're currently trying the digital nomad lifestyle across Latin America.

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Peter Simon:

It’s nice, Sasha, but also very funny that you’ve written that Africa is “the largest continent on Earth”. With 36.4 mill. km2, it certainly is bigger than most, but compared to the 44.58 miil. km2 of Asia it certainly isn’t the largest, is it? Primary school material in my native country …
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  sasha:
  
  @Peter Simon Whoops. I meant to say continent with the most countries. Thanks for calling me out on that one. It’s been a long couple of weeks with lots of visitors in Bali so I’m a bit fried at the moment!