Longest one word place name

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This is a list of long place names.

Single-word names[edit]

25 letters or more[edit]

20-24 letters[edit]

14–19 letters[edit]

Names with spaces or hyphens[edit]

• Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit (176 letters) Full name of Bangkok, Thailand
  • in Thai: กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยา มหาดิลกภพ นพรัตนราชธานีบูรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์มหาสถาน อมรพิมานอวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยวิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์ (132 letters + 7 spaces)
• Some long Thai place names are also:
  • Khlong Nakhon Nueang Khet, Mueang Chachoengsao District, Chachoengsao province
  • Khlong Udom Chonlachon, Mueang Chachoengsao District, Chachoengsao Province
  • Nikhom Sang Ton-eng Lam Dom Noi, Sirindhorn District, Ubon Ratchathani Province
  • Pak Khlong Phasi Charoen, Phasi Charoen District, Bangkok
  • Pak Phanang Fang Tawan Tok (Western Pak Phanang), Pak Phanang District, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province
  • Pak Phanang Fang Tawan Ok (Eastern Pak Phanang), Pak Phanang District, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province
  • Phra Borom Maha Ratchawang, Phra Nakhon District, Bangkok
  • Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province/District/City
  • Thung Kratat Phatthana, Nong Ki District, Buriram Province
• Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G. Ramachandran Central Railway Station, longest place name in India.
• Some countries that have long names with spaces are:
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis, a small island country in the Caribbean.
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, an island country in the Caribbean.
  • Papua New Guinea, an island country bordering Indonesia.
  • Central African Republic, a country in Africa.
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country in Africa.
  • United Arab Emirates, a country in the Middle East.
  • São Tomé and Príncipe, a country in Africa in the western coast near Gabon.
  • Republic of the Congo, a country in Africa.
  • Antigua and Barbuda, a country in the Caribbean.
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country in Europe and former Yugoslav republic.
  • Trinidad and Tobago, an island country in North America.
• Longest place names in Canada:
  • Local service district of Lethbridge, Morley’s Siding, Brooklyn, Charleston, Jamestown, Portland, Winter Brook and Sweet Bay (80 letters, 87 non-space characters), Newfoundland and Labrador
  • United Townships of Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Eyre and Clyde (61 letters, 68 non-space characters), usually shortened to Dysart, et al., Ontario
• Uruguay: Muy Fiel y Reconquistadora Ciudad de San Felipe y Santiago de Montevideo (60 letters)
• United Kingdom: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (48 letters, longest official name of a country)
• United States: Commonwealth of Massachusetts (27 letters)
• Argentina: Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre, Buenos Aires (40 letters)
• England: The Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield (29 letters)
• Venezuela: Santiago de León de Caracas (23 letters)
• Sri Lanka: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (23 letters)
• Some long U.S. place names appearing in the Geographic Names Information System are:^[28]
  • Winchester-on-the-Severn, Maryland, and Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas (21 letters, longest hyphenated place names in the U.S.)
  • Rancho Santa Margarita, California
  • Oxon Hill-Glassmanor, Maryland
  • Dalworthington Gardens, Texas
  • Little Harbor on the Hillsboro, Florida
  • Pops Hammock Seminole Village, Florida
  • Friendly Village of Crooked Creek, Georgia
  • Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts
  • Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida
  • The Village of Lakewood, Illinois
  • Little Diamond Island Landing, Maine
  • Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • Orchard Point at Piney Orchard, Maryland
  • Point Field Landing on the Severn, Maryland
  • Riverside Village of Church Creek, Maryland
  • Monmouth Heights at Manalapan, New Jersey
  • Staffordville Public Landing, New Jersey
  • Holly View Forest-Highland Park, North Carolina
  • The Village of Indian Hill, Ohio
  • Washington Court House
  • Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota, Pennsylvania
  • The Landing at Plantation Point, South Carolina
  • Kinney and Gourlays Improved City Plat, Utah
  • Little Cottonwood Creek Valley, Utah
  • Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota
  • South Chicago Heights, Illinois
  • Grand View-on-Hudson, New York
  • Lake Norman of Catawba, North Carolina
• The original name of Los Angeles, California, in 1781, was «El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula»; in English this means «The Town of Our Lady the Queen of Angels of the Porciúncula River».^[29]
• The longest hyphenated name in England is the 29-letter-long name Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe, the name of a tiny village in North Yorkshire.
• The longest names for communes in France are Saint-Remy-en-Bouzemont-Saint-Genest-et-Isson, Marne (45 characters including hyphens), Saint-Germain-de-Tallevende-la-Lande-Vaumont, Calvados (44 characters), and Beaujeu-Saint-Vallier-Pierrejux-et-Quitteur, Haute-Saône (43 characters).
• The longest department name in France is Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (23 characters, including hyphens).
• The longest place name in Austria is Pfaffenschlag bei Waidhofen an der Thaya (40 characters).
• The longest street name in Hungary is Ferihegyi repülőtérre vezető út. It means «Road leading to the airport at Ferihegy» (28 characters)
• The longest place name in Spain is Colinas del Campo de Martín Moro Toledano de Castilla y León, in the province of León (50 characters).
• The longest place name in Finland is Semmonen niemi, jossa käärme koiraa pisti, in the municipality of Perho (36 characters, including a comma). The English translation is That cape where a snake bit the dog.
• The longest municipality name in the Czech Republic is the name of Nová Ves u Nového Města na Moravě (33 characters, English translation: «New Village in near of New Town in Moravia).
• The longest single place name in Germany is Hellschen-Heringsand-Unterschaar in Schleswig-Holstein (32 characters). In the standard official naming scheme, however, villages are disambiguated by prefixing them with the name of the municipality they are part of. The longest official place name is therefore Michelbach an der Bilz-Gschlachtenbretzingen (40 characters).
• The longest place names in Italy are Pino sulla Sponda del Lago Maggiore and San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore, with 30 letters, or it is Cortaccia sulla Strada del Vino — Kurtatsch an der Weinstraße considering the official name both in Italian and German.
• The longest place names in Poland are Sobienie Kiełczewskie Pierwsze and Przedmieście Szczebrzeszyńskie, with 30 letters (including spaces).
• The longest place name in the Netherlands is Westerhaar-Vriezenveensewijk (28 characters, including a hyphen). The longest street name is Laan van de landinrichtingscommissie Duiven-Westervoort in Duiven.^[30][31][32]
• The longest place name in Indonesia is the Regency of Kepulauan Siau Tagulandang Biaro [id] (Siau Tagulandang Biaro Islands) with 32 characters (including spaces).
• The longest place name in Malaysia is Kampung Simpang Tiga Durian Chondong, with 36 characters (including spaces).
• The municipality with the longest name in Brazil is Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade, with 32 characters (including spaces).
• The municipality with the longest name in Mexico is Dolores Hidalgo Cuna de la Independencia Nacional (49 characters).^[33]
• The longest place name in Mexico is San Pedro y San Pablo Tequixtepec (28 letters).
• The longest city name in Argentina is San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca (30 letters).
• Truth or Consequences is a spa city and the county seat of Sierra County, New Mexico, United States.
• Bellefontaine Neighbors, Missouri (22 letters) has the longest name of any incorporated place in the United States.
• The longest name of a settlement in Russia with spaces (not counting official names of municipalities) is (in ISO 9) «posyolok Central’noj usad’by` sovxoza imeni 40-letiya Velikogo Oktyabrya» (Russian: посёлок Центральной усадьбы совхоза имени 40-летия Великого Октября, 50 letters (if not counting the word posyolok/посёлок, which is a generic name for a settlement), and 2 digits, which would give another 6 letters). The English translation is a settlement of The Central Farmstead of the Sovkhoz named after the 40-years Anniversary of the Great October.
• The longest hyphenated name of a settlement in Belgium is Chaussée-Notre-Dame-Louvignies (27 letters).
• The longest hyphenated name of a settlement in Russia is Kremenchug-Konstantinovskoye (Кременчуг-Константиновское, 25 letters). The English translation is (new) Kremenchug named after Konstantin (a first settler).
• Putevaya Usadba 9 km zheleznoy dorogi Luostari–Nikel (Russian:Путевая Усадьба 9 км железной дороги Луостари–Никель) is a rural locality in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It is located within the Arctic Circle. In English, the name translates to Track Homestead 9 km of Luostari-Nikel railway
• The longest name of a settlement in Croatia is Gornje Mrzlo Polje Mrežničko (25 letters). The English translation is Upper cold field near Mrežnica.
• The longest municipality name in the Philippines is General Salipada K. Pendatun (24 characters), named after the Mindanaoan general and senator of the same name.

See also[edit]

• Longest word in English
• List of longest placenames in Ireland
• List of short place names

References[edit]

Wait, are you drunk, or by any chance high? Then you better come back later for reading this. As we are going to take you through a list that can give a rollercoaster ride to your brain and eyes both and can straightaway twist your tongue. The world has got places that have weirdly long names with teeth-breaking pronunciations. So, ready for the crazy spin? These are the 7 destinations in the world with the longest place names:

1. TAUMATAWHAKATANGIHANGAKOAUAUOTAMATEAPOKAIWHENUAKITANATAHU, NEW ZEALAND

This hill in the North Island of New Zealand has the longest place name in the world. The name has 85 letters. It’s one word and 85 letters, guys! For convenience, the hill is often called Taumata. The name of the place has also been listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest place name.

2. LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH, WALES

This village on the Ynys Môn island off the north-west coast of Wales has 58 letters. It is the place with the second-longest name in the world. The original name of the village was Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll. The name was made longer in the 1860s to draw in more tourists. Also, do you know which is the longest URL in the world? It is the official website of this village.

3. CHARGOGGAGOGGMANCHAUGGAGOGGCHAUBUNAGUNGAMAUGG, MASSACHUSETTS

This is the name of a lake in Massachusetts, US and is also the longest place name in the US. It is shortened to Lake Chaubunagungamaug. The lake is also known as Webster Lake as it is in the town of Webster in Massachusetts.

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4. TWEEBUFFELSMETEENSKOOTMORSDOODGESKIETFONTEIN, SOUTH AFRICA

This is a farm that sits in the North West Province of South Africa. The name has 44 letters and it is the longest place name in South Africa. There is also a song with the name of this place as the title, co-written by South African artists Anton Goosen and Fanus Rautenbach.

5. AZPILICUETAGARAYCOSAROYARENBERECOLARREA, SPAIN

This is the name of a Spanish village in Azpilkueta, Navarra and it has 39 letters. This is the longest place name in Spain, the second-longest in Europe and the fifth-longest name in the world.

6. ÄTERITSIPUTERITSIPUOLILAUTATSIJÄNKÄ, FINLAND

This is a bog region in the Savukoski area of Lapland, Finland. It is the longest official one-word place name in Finland and the third-longest in Europe. A bar in the region was also later given this name, but it closed operations in April 2006.

7. PEKWACHNAMAYKOSKWASKWAYPINWANIK, CANADA

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Longest One-Word Placename In India

The above list has names of places with words having more than 30 letters. There are many places in the world with place names as long as 20 to 30 words. One of them is the Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta in India, having 28 letters, which is also the longest one-word place name in India and the eighth longest place name in the world.

The world really is a weird and wonderful place full of beauty, laughter, and some very strange places.

From Virgin Street to Bucket of Blood Street and some that simply challenge your lung power.

Here we’re going to look at the world’s longest place names, but please, for your own safety, have a large glass of water and a deep breath before trying to pronounce them.

So let’s get down to it!

Azpilicuetagaraycosaroyarenberecolarrea

Fifth place is held by Spain with this 39-letter beauty spot; it’s nowhere near the contender for the top but extraordinary nonetheless.

Located in Azpilkueta, Navarra, it’s Basque for “The low field of high pen of Azpilkueta.”

Navarra is one of the greenest regions in Europe, with over 70% of electricity coming from renewable sources, and for a long time was seen by the EU as the ideal outcome for all of Europe.

Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein

In a very close fourth with 44 letters, this farm is located in the North West province of South Africa.

It’s Afrikaans for “The spring where two buffaloes were cleanly killed with a single shot” and holds the title for the longest one-word place name in Africa.

Anton Goosen has a song titled “Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein” on his 2014 album Putonnerwater.

South Africa seems to love their long place names, they also have the smaller “Bovenendvankeelafsnysleegte” a farm in the Upper Karoo, and although this doesn’t make the cut for this particular list, it’s still undoubtedly impressive.

Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg

Coming in third place with a slightly more impressive 45 letters is located in the US.

Lake Chaubunagungamaug, the shortened and more common name for this otherwise beautiful location, is located in Webster, Massachusetts.

Deriving from the Nipmuck language, it means “Fishing Place at the Boundaries – Neutral Meeting Grounds” and is the longest official one-word place name in the United States.

This appeared, in all its glory, as a potential street address for the fictional Dragonfly Inn in TV’s Gilmore Girls.

Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch

In second place with 58 letters is a location much closer to home for me, Wales.

Also known as Llanfair PG or Llanfairpwll, This is Europe’s longest place name, with many believing it holds the world title.

Llanfair PG is Welsh for “Saint Mary’s Church in a hollow of white hazel near the swirling whirlpool of the church of Saint Tysilio with a red cave.”

For anyone thinking about trying to pronounce this, Blackadder put it best “You need half a pint of phlegm in your throat just to pronounce the place names.”

The name was used as a password for Dildano’s headquarters in the 1960s cult film “Barbarella.”

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

At number 1, New Zealand with an astonishing 85 letters!

Taumata is the shortened version of this behemoth.

It is located on the North of the island and is Māori for “The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who traveled about, played his nose flute to his loved one”.

This is, according to the Guinness Worlds Records, officially the world’s longest place name.

Taumata appears in numerous songs and popular culture, including Quantum Jump’s “The lone Ranger” and, weirdly enough, a Mountain Dew jingle.

So there we have it; next time you moan about having to enter those “long” addresses, feel sorry for the Kiwis having to type in their favorite picnic spot at the summit of Tamatea.

Or feel sorry for those Welshmen catching the train in Llanfair PG.

I personally won’t be complaining unless the address is longer than the alphabet; a new rule, I think.

There are obviously plenty more place names that are insanely long, but you have to stop at some point, and anything less than 35 characters doesn’t seem anywhere near as mammoth as 85!

Asked by: Waylon Murphy

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Ready? It’s Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu. This 1,000-foot hill near the township Porangahau holds the Guinness World Record for longest place name with 85 characters. Locals call it Taumata or Taumata Hill.

What is the shortest place name in the world?

The Shortest Geographical Place Names

What is the longest state name in the world?

Move over, RI: Massachusetts has the longest official state name now — The Boston Globe.

Where is the longest one word place name?

1. Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, New Zealand. The world’s longest place name belongs to a hill near Porangahau in the southern Hawke’s Bay in New Zealand. It is a name given in the Maori language.

What is the meaning of Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu?

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