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• The North Island of New Zealand has a place named Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
• The 1,000-foot hill near the township Porangahau holds the Guinness World Record for longest place name with 85 characters.

Every world traveler knows the struggles of trying to fit into a foreign country’s culture. It requires remembering local customs, practicing appropriate etiquette, and (perhaps the most challenging) learning to speak like a local. But if you visit the North Island of New Zealand, there’s one word that no local will give you a hard time about mispronouncing. In fact, they often shorten it themselves.

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.

The hill got its lengthy name from a native warrior named Tamatea. Legend has it that after his brother was killed in a fight with another tribe, Tamatea spent the following days grieving his loss by playing his flute on the hill. The Maori (the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand) wanted to name the location in his honor and chose what is now the hill’s official name. It roughly translates to “the summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the slider, climber of mountains, the land-swallower who traveled about, played his nose flute to his loved one.”

Its other exceedingly long name counts in at 105 characters: Taumata-whakatangihanga-koauau-o-Tamatea-haumai-tawhiti-ure-haea-turi-pukaka-piki-maunga-horo-nuku-pokai-whenua-ki-tana-tahu. This one translates to “the hill of the nose-flute playing by Tamatea — who was blown hither from afar, had a slit penis, grazed his knees climbing mountains, fell on the earth, and encircled the land — to his beloved.” The locals obviously thought the first name wasn’t descriptive enough.

Thankfully, you don’t need to travel across an ocean to visit places with amusing monikers. These are the funniest town names in each of the 50 states.

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]

Full name of Bangkok, written in front of Bangkok Administrative Building

• 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 eastern 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:[25]
  • 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".[26]
• 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's 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 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).[27]
• 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).
• 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

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