The Longest Place Names In The World
March 6, 2008
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is a lake in the town of Webster, Massachusetts. Many call the lake by it’s alternate name … Lake Webster. I can’t really blame them for that.
The official name of the lake (as recognized by the US Interior Department) is a little shorter, but still a mouthful: LakeChaubunagungamaug. The name originated with a group of Algonquian Indians called Nipmucks.
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is the longest place name in the United States but only the sixth longest in the world.
The longest place name in the world is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotameteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhen
uakitanatahu, a Maori word for a hill located in New Zealand:
The longest place name in Britain is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, a small town in Wales. The name was contrived specifically to be the longest town name in Britain:
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I always thought the real name of Bangkok was the longest.
Krungthep Maha Nakorn, Amarn Rattanakosindra, Mahindrayudhya, Mahadilokpop Noparatana Rajdhani Mahasathan, Amorn Piman Avatarn Satit, Sakkatultiya Vishnukarn Prasit
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The name of Webster lake roughly translates into:
“You fish on your side, I’ll fish on my side and nobody will fish in the middle”.
Tragically the original dialect of the language is now extinct.
I’ve made a sound like that after a night of heavy drinking.
I’ve been to the lake… yeah, they just call it lake Webster. I think it’s pretty cool. =]
The last picture is a name of a small railway and village in Wales.
Its new knowledge
i think whoever did this just typoed and went with it.
Massachusetts: “We fucking love ridiculous names”
it is pronounces as Yewowmeonemilliondollors
I bet many Maoris cannot even read that.
OMG These are wierd names i cant even pronounce any of the names! wow i never knew they had names that were that long. I wonder how many letters are in the names like a hundred three or something. Wait until i tell my friendz there gonna be like no way.
Sorry in my other comment i was just amazed but this is so cool!
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dude the longest name ever is shiglebobrigfonliktinroflatermantotolardanimalianfargeingforestofthedeap club
Massachusetts: “We fucking love ridiculous names”
we really do!!!!!
I thought the longest place name was my country’s capital…
Krungthep Mahanakhon Bovorn Ratanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokpop Noparatratchathani Burirom Udomratchanivet Mahasathan Amornpiman Avatarnsathit Sakkathattiyavisnukarmprasit…
Not recognized by the Guiness World Records, but it is 163 characters!!! I even found it the Top 10 of Everything book!