What is the longest place name in the world is 85 letters long?

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki-maungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitnatahu holds the world record for being the longest place name on the entire planet, at the length of 85 characters.
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What word is 85 letters long?

The North Island of New Zealand has a place named Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
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What place has the longest name in the world?

The longest place name in the world belongs to Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, New Zealand. It is a Maori word for a hill in the country's North Island. While some place names in the world are very short, there are places with names that are exceptionally long.
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What is the longest name of a city in the world?

Apparently, Bangkok is the city's nickname and it's ceremonial name is “Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit!"
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Is llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch the longest word?

The long form of the name is the longest place name in the United Kingdom and one of the longest in the world at 58 characters (51 "letters" since "ch" and "ll" are digraphs, and are treated as single letters in the Welsh language).
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The longest place name on the planet is 85 letters long



What word takes 3 hours to say?

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl… isoleucine is the chemical name for the protein of “titin” also known as “connectin.” The largest known protein that consists of 26, 926 amino acids is made up of 189, 819 letters and can take about three hours to pronounce.
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What's the longest word in Japanese?

A funny phrase in japanese is “toragahitowokamoutosurutokinounarinow” 虎が人を噛もうとするときのうなり声。 It is 37 letters long and is comprised of a 17 syllables. It is a very odd phrase, as it is defined as “the growl a tiger makes when it is about to about to bite someone”.
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What city's name is 21 words long?

In the United States, the cities of Winchester-on-the-Severn in Maryland, and Washington-on-the-Brazos in Texas are the longest place names at 21 letters each, although they do have hyphens to make them a little easier on the eye.
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How many letters are in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Originally the town had a shorter, easier to pronounce name: Llanfairpwllgwyngyll. In the 1880s, in a joking attempt to attract tourists, a tailor added the rest of the syllables, bringing the total length to 58 letters, including four letter L's in a row.
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What is longest name?

The longest personal name is 747 characters long, and belongs to Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (b. 4 August 1914, Germany) who passed away on 24 October 1997, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA, as verified on 1 January 2021.
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What is the 2nd longest name?

2. LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH, WALES. This village on the Ynys Môn island off the north-west coast of Wales has 58 letters. It is the place with the second-longest name in the world.
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What's the longest name in Africa?

Meaning of Uvuvwevwevwe onyetenvewve ugwemubwem ossas Longest name in Africa and probably the world.
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What is the longest name in India?

Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta or Venkata Narasimha Rajuvaripet or V N Rajuvaripeta (28 letters) is a railway station in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, situated on the border with Tamil Nadu. So small is its size, that mail trains and express trains do not even halt at Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta!
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What is the longest city name in India?

"Venkatanarasimharaju's city". Note: The longest one-word placename in India. A farm in the Upper Karoo in South Africa.
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What is the longest city name in us?

> Population: 2,995

Though the Census lists it as “Village of Grosse Pointe Shores city," the longest city name anywhere in America, the city's residents actually voted in 2009 to incorporate it as “Village of Grosse Pointe Shores, A Michigan City”. The shores referenced in the name are along Lake St.
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Is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch a real place?

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (Llanfair PG for short) is a small, quiet town on the island of Anglesey off the northwest coast of North Wales, famous for having the longest place name in Europe.
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What is the longest place name in UK?

It was a hot day in Wales today and especially in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. The Welsh village was the warmest place in the U.K., but it's probably better known for having Europe's longest place name and, if you're not a native Welsh speaker, being practically unpronounceable.
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What is the full name of Bangkok?

The Thai name for Bangkok, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon, is actually a short form of the capital's full name, which is rooted in Pali and Sanskrit and is more of a phrase to describe the city than a name: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet ...
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What is Thailand's real name?

Thailand (/ˈtaɪlænd, ˈtaɪlənd/ TY-land, TY-lənd), historically known as Siam (/saɪˈæm, ˈsaɪæm/) and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of Mainland Southeast Asia, spanning 513,120 square kilometres (198,120 sq mi), with a population of almost 70 million.
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Is there a word with 1000 letters?

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

It's a technical word referring to the lung disease more commonly known as silicosis.
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What's the longest Spanish word?

Esternocleidooccipitomastoideos (31-letters) is the plural of the noun esternocleidooccipitomastoideo, which is the sternocleidomastoid, a muscle in the human neck.
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What's the longest word in Russian?

Russian. Most likely one of the longest Russian words is a chemical term тетрагидропиранилциклопентилтетрагидропиридопиридиновая (tetragidropiranilciklopentiltetragidropiridopiridinovaya), which contains 55 letters. It was used in Russian patent RU2285004C2 (granted and published in 2006).
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