Top 5 places with the longest names in the world
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu – does this look like a string of random letters? It is actually the name of a hill in New Zealand. And this is not the only strange name you can find out there.
Here are the places with the world’s longest and strangest names, according to worldatlas.com:
1.Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu – with no less than 85 letters, this is the name of a hill in New Zealand. It is also featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s longest toponym.
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2.Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch – this is the name of a village and community in Wales. Made up of 58 letters, it is the longest single-word name in Great Britain.
3. Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg – the name of a lake in Massachusetts, also known under the “short” name Lake Webster. It takes 45 letters to write it.
4.Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein – this is a farm in a province in South Africa, around 200 kilometers away from Pretoria. Needing 44 characters, this is the longest single-word name in South Africa.
5.Azpilicuetagaraycosaroyarenberecolarrea – the name of a place in Spain. It comes from the basque language and has 39 letters.
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