List of long place names
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This is a list of long place names of officially recognized place names.
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[edit] Single word names
- Full name: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters)
- Short-forms: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu (57 letters)
- Location: A hill on North Island, New Zealand
- Language: Māori
- Translation: "The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one"
- Notes: Listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest official placename in the world.
- Full name: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (58 letters)
- Short-forms: Llanfairpwllgwyngyll (20 letters)
- Location: a village in Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom
- Language: Welsh
- Translation: "Saint Mary's Church in a hollow of white hazel near the swirling whirlpool of the church of Saint Tysilio with a red cave"
- Notes: The longest official one-word placename in Wales.
- Full name: Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (45 letters)
- Short-forms: Lake Chaubunagungamaug (17 letters)[1]
- Location: a lake in Massachusetts, United States
- Language: Nipmuc
- Translation: "Fishing Place at the Boundaries -- Neutral Meeting Grounds"[2]
- Notes: Believed to be the longest official one-word placename in the United States.
- Full name: Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein (44 letters)[3][4][5]
- Location: South Africa
- Language: Afrikaans
- Translation: "The spring (lit. Fountain) where two buffaloes were cleanly killed with a single shot"
- Notes: Disputed whether the name belongs to a farm or town, and whether that farm or town actually exists.
- Full name: Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkä (35 letters)
- Location: Lapland, Finland
- Language: Finnish (northern dialect)
- Translation:
- Notes: The longest official one-word placename in Finland.
- Full name: Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik (31 letters)
- Location: a lake in Manitoba and Nunavut, Canada
- Language: Inuktitut
- Translation:
- Notes: The longest official one-word placename in Canada.[6]
- Full name: Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta (28 letters)
- Location: a village in Andhra Pradesh, India
- Language: Telugu
- Translation:Venkatanarasimharaju's city
- Notes: The longest one-word placename in India.
- Full name: Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya (26 letters)
- Location: a hill in South Australia, Australia
- Language: Pitjantjatjara
- Translation: "Where the devil urinates"
- Notes: The longest official one-word placename in Australia.[7]
- Full name: Bullaunancheathrairaluinn[8] (25 letters)
- Location: a bullaun in County Galway, Ireland
- Language: Anglicisation of Irish Ballán an Cheathrair Álainn[8]
- Translation:
- Notes: Believed to be the longest official one-word Irish-derived placename in Ireland.
- Full name: Gasselterboerveenschemond (25 letters)
- Location: a hamlet in Drenthe, Netherlands
- Language: Dutch
- Translation:
- Notes: The longest official one-word placename in the Netherlands.
- Full name: Onafhankelijkheidsplein (23 letters) [9][10]
- Location: a central square in Paramaribo, Suriname
- Language: Dutch
- Translation: Independence Square
- Notes:
- Full name: Kuchistiniwamiskahikan (22 letters)
- Location: an island in Quebec, Canada
- Language:
- Translation:
- Notes: The longest official one-word placename in Quebec.[6]
- Full name: Parangaricutirimicuaro (22 letters)
- Location: a city in Michoacán, Mexico
- Language: P'urhepecha
- Translation:
- Notes:
- Full name: Drehideenglashanatooha (22 letters)[citation needed]
- Location: a bridge in County Tipperary, Ireland
- Language: Anglicisation of Irish Droichidín Glaise na Tuaithe
- Translation: Little bridge of stream of the túath
- Notes:
- Full name: Siemieniakowszczyzna (20 letters)
- Location: a village in Hajnówka County, Poland
- Language: Polish language
- Translation: ground of Siemieniak, lit. Siemieniakishness
- Notes:
- Full name: Newtownmountkennedy (19 letters)
- Location: a village in County Wicklow, Ireland
- Language: English
- Translation:
- Notes: the longest official one-word English-derived placename in Ireland.
- Full name: Cottonshopeburnfoot (19 letters)
- Location: a hamlet in Northumberland, England
- Language: English
- Translation:
- Notes:
- Full name: Thiruvananthapuram (18 letters)
- Location: a city in Kerala, India
- Language: Malayalam
- Translation: "City of Lord Ananta"[11]
- Notes: Thiruvananthapuram is the capital of Kerala.
[edit] Names with spaces or hyphen
- Bangkok: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit
- Some long U.S. place names appearing in the Geographic Names Information System are:[12]
- Winchester-on-the-Severn in Maryland, and Washington-on-the-Brazos in Texas are the longest hyphenated placenames in the U.S. (21 letters)
- Little Harbor on the Hillsboro, FL
- Pops Hammock Seminole Village, FL
- Friendly Village of Crooked Creek, GA
- Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
- Little Diamond Island Landing, ME
- Orchard Point At Piney Orchard, MD
- Point Field Landing on the Severn, MD
- Riverside Village of Church Creek, MD
- Monmouth Heights at Manalapan, NJ
- Staffordville Public Landing, NJ
- Holly View Forest-Highland Park, NC
- The Landing at Plantation Point, SC
- Big Thicket Creekmore Village, TX
- Kinney and Gourlays Improved City Plat, UT
- Little Cottonwood Creek Valley, UT
- West Virginia Central Junction, WV
- Marine on Saint Croix, MN
- The longest names for communes in France, with 38 letters each, 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 place name in Spain is Villarcayo de Merindad de Castilla la Vieja, in the province of Burgos.
- The longest municipality name in the Czech Republic is the name of Nová Ves u Nového Města na Moravě (33 characters), the second one is the city of Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav (32 characters).
- The longest place names in Italy are Pino sulla Sponda del Lago Maggiore and San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore, with 30 letters.
- The longest place names in Poland are Sobienie Kiełczewskie Pierwsze and Przedmieście Szczebrzeszyńskie, with 30 letters (including spaces).
- The municipality with the longest name in Mexico is Dolores Hidalgo Cuna de la Independencia Nacional (49 characters).[13]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Geographic Names Information System: Lake Chaubunagungamaug
- ^ Patenaude, Ed (June 28, 2001). "Fabrication leaves us gasping - Old twist to name of lake comes to light". Worcester Telegram & Gazette. http://www.websterlakeassociation.com/GeneralInterest/Fabricationleavesusgasping.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-20.[dead link]
- ^ "How Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein Got its Name". http://travelblog.portfoliocollection.com/Blog/How-Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein-Got-its-Name. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
- ^ "Professor AM de Lange". http://www.learning-org.com/00.03/0057.html. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
- ^ "HUNT FOR TWO BUFFALOES". http://www.bdb.co.za/shackle/articles/twee_buffels.htm. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
- ^ a b britishcouncil.org
- ^ "Geoscience Australia Gazeteer". http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/gazd01?rec=204304.
- ^ a b "Bullaunanchaeathrairalainn". Placenames Database of Ireland. http://www.logainm.ie/?text=Bullaunanchaeathrairalainn+&uiLang=en.
- ^ Onafhankelijkheidsplein in Paramaribo, The Guianas - Lonely Planet
- ^ Lonely Planet Destinations
- ^ "About Thiruvananthapuram". Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation. http://www.corporationoftrivandrum.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=158&Itemid=11. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
- ^ Jeff Miller's Collection
- ^ Catálogo de claves de entidades federativas, municipios y localidades
