The longest place names in the world (12 photos)

Many geographical names, such as Moscow, Paris, Beijing, are easy to pronounce and well remembered. However, there are names that, as they say, “you’ll break your tongue” before you pronounce them. Did you know that the official city name of Bangkok is the longest city name in the world, and how to pronounce the 85-letter hill name in New Zealand?

Longest city name

1. The official name of the capital of Thailand - Bangkok sounds like Kroon Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintarayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Nopparat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchanivet Mahasathan Amon Piman Avatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Vitsanukam Prasit (กรุงเทพม​​ ราชนิเวศน์ มหาสถาน อมรพิมาน อวตารสถิฆ ทัตติยะ วิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์ ).

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, it is the longest city name in the world and translates to "The Great City of Angels, the impregnable land of the great immortal deity Indra, the royal capital of the nine jewels, a beautiful city with many majestic royal palaces and divine abodes for the reincarnated god."

Longest place names

2. Muckanaghederdauhaulia is the longest place name in Ireland (22 letters). The name translates as "marshy area between two salty bays."

3. Gasselterboerveenschemond – the longest name in Holland (25 letters)

4. Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya is a hill in Australia and the longest official place name in Australia (26 letters). The name of the place is translated from the local language Pitäntätätära as “where the devil urinates.”

5. Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta is the longest place name in Andhra Pradesh in India (28 letters)

6. Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik is the name of the lake and the longest name in Canada (31 letters). It is translated from the Cree language as "where the wild trout are hooked."

7. Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkä – the longest place name in Finland and the second longest in Europe (35 letters)

8. Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein – farm in the North-West Province of South Africa (44 letters). It translates as "the source where two bulls were killed cleanly with one shot."

Longest lake name

9. Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg) - lake in the USA (45 letters). The name of the lake is translated from the Algonquian language of the Nipmuc Indians as "a fishing place on the border - a neutral meeting place."

10. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the longest place name in the UK (58 letters). The name from the Welsh language means "The Church of St. Mary in the hollow of the white hazel near the rapid whirlpool of the Church of St. Tysilio with the red cave."

Longest mountain name and longest place name in the world

11.Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (Taumatawhakatangiangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokanuenuakitanatahu) is the name of a hill (85 letters) 305 meters high in New Zealand.

The Maori name translates to "the peak where Tamatea, the man with the big knees who climbed the mountains, swallowed the earth, who traveled and played his nose flute for his beloved."

According to the Guinness Book of Records, this is the longest place name in the world.