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August 4, 2006

Loooooong…. The longest!

Filed under: Cities, Records — piotrek @ 11:00 am

The longest name of place in English speaking country is:

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters) which is a hill in New Zealand.

The longest name of a town in the UK is:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (58 characters).

But the longest train station name in the UK is:

Gorsafawddacha’idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion (68 characters) in North Wales, and it was created just to beat Llanfairpwllqw…

No wonder some people develop a “fear of long words”, it is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (sweet irony!). :)

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