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List of long place names

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List of long place names

This is a list of long place names.

Names with spaces or hyphens

  • Bangkok: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit (176 letters)
  • in Thai: กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยา มหาดิลกภพ นพรัตนราชธานีบูรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์มหาสถาน อมรพิมานอวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยวิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์ (132 letters + 7 spaces)
  • Some long Thai place names are also:
  • Nikhom Sang Ton-eng Lam Dom Noi, Sirindhorn, Ubon Ratchathani
  • Phra Borom Maha Ratcha Wang, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok
  • Khlong Nakhon Nueang Khet, Mueang Chachoengsao District
  • Pak Phanang Fang Tawan Tok, Pak Phanang District, Nakhon Si Thammarat
  • Pak Phanang Fang Tawan Ok, Pak Phanang District
  • Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province
  • Pak Khlong Phasi Charoen, Phasi Charoen, Bangkok
  • Thung Kratat Phatthana, Nong Ki, Buriram
  • Khlong Udom Chonlachon, Mueang Chachoengsao District
  • Longest place name in Canada: Corporation of the 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
  • Montevideo: Muy Fiel y Reconquistadora Ciudad de San Felipe y Santiago de Montevideo (60 letters)
  • Caracas: Santiago de León de Caracas (23 letters)
  • Sri Lanka: Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte (23 letters)
  • Some long U.S. place names appearing in the Geographic Names Information System are:
  • Winchester-on-the-Severn, Maryland, and Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas are the longest hyphenated place names in the U.S. (21 letters)
  • Rancho Santa Margarita, California
  • Little Harbor on the Hillsboro, FL
  • Pops Hammock Seminole Village, FL
  • Friendly Village of Crooked Creek, GA
  • Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts
  • Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida
  • Hamilton-Wenham, MA
  • Little Diamond Island Landing, ME
  • Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • 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 Village of Indian Hill, Ohio
  • Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota, Pennsylvania
  • The Landing at Plantation Point, SC
  • Big Thicket Creekmore Village, TX
  • Kinney and Gourlays Improved City Plat, UT
  • Little Cottonwood Creek Valley, Utah
  • West Virginia Central Junction, West Virginia
  • Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota
  • The U.S. state with the longest name is Rhode Island, which officially is named Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
  • The original name of Los Angeles, CA, 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".
  • 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, 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 Austria is Pfaffenschlag bei Waidhofen an der Thaya (40 characters).
  • The longest place name in Spain is Villarcayo de Merindad de Castilla la Vieja, in the province of Burgos (37 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), the second one is the city of Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav (32 characters).
  • The longest single place name in Germany is Hellschen-Heringsand-Unterschaar in Schleswig-Holstein (32 characters). In the standard official naming scheme, however, small villages are disambiguated by prefixing them with the name of the main town in the district. 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 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).
  • 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.

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    List of long place names Wikipedia
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