page_title: List of long place names
section_title: Single-word names
hierarchical_section_title: List of long place names / Single-word names
caption_attribution_description: English: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch railway station sign, September 2011 livery
context_page_description: This is a list of long place names.
context_section_description: Taumatawhakatangi­hangakoauauotamatea­turipukakapikimaunga­horonukupokaiwhen­uakitanatahu (85 letters)
  Short-forms:
  Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu (57 letters)
  Taumata (7 letters)
  Location: North Island, New Zealand
  Language: Māori
  Translation: "The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one"
  Notes: Listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest official placename in the world.
  Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch (58 letters)
  Short-forms: Llanfair PG (10 letters), Llanfairpwll (12 letters) or Llanfairpwllgwyngyll (20 letters)
  Location: Isle of Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom
  Language: Welsh
  Translation: "Saint Mary's Church in a hollow of white hazel near the rapid whirlpool of the church of Saint Tysilio with a red cave"
  
  Notes: The longest official one-word placename in Europe.
  Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (45 letters)
  
  Short-forms:
  Lake Chaubunagungamaug (17 letters, six syllables)
  Webster Lake (11 letters)
  Location: a lake in  Webster, Massachusetts, United States
  Language: Nipmuc
  Translation: "Fishing Place at the Boundaries – Neutral Meeting Grounds"
  Notes: Believed to be the longest official one-word placename in the United States.
  Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein (44 letters)
  
  Location: a farm in the North West province of South Africa
  Language: Afrikaans
  Translation: "Two-Buffalos-With-One-Shot-Completely-Dead-Shot-Fountain"
  Notes: The longest one-word placename in Africa. Located near the place "putfontein" (pit fountain).
  Azpilicuetagaraicosaroyarenberecolarrea (39 letters).
  
  Location: Azpilkueta, Navarra, Spain.
  Language: Basque
  Translation: The low field of high pen of Azpilikueta
  Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkä (35 letters)
  
  Location: Lapland, Finland
  Language: Finnish (northern dialect)
  Translation: Unknown etymology, probably gibberish (see entry for more).
  Notes: The longest official one-word placename in Finland, and the third longest in Europe.
  Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik (31 letters)
  
  Location: a lake in Manitoba, Canada
  Language: Cree
  Translation: "where the wild trout are caught by fishing with hooks"
  Notes: The longest official one-word placename in Canada.
  Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta (28 letters)
  
  Location: a village in Andhra Pradesh, India
  Language: Telugu
  Translation: "Venkatanarasimharaju's city"
  Notes: The longest one-word placename in India.
  Bovenendvankeelafsnysleegte (27 letters)
  
  Location: a farm in the Upper Karoo in South Africa
  Language: Afrikaans
  Translation: "Upper end of throat-cut valley" ("hollow" may be better than "valley")
  Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya (26 letters)
  
  Location: a hill in South Australia, Australia
  Language: Pitjantjatjara
  Translation: "Where the devil urinates"
  Notes: The longest official one-word placename in Australia.
  Schmedeswurtherwesterdeich (26 letters)
  
  Location: a hamlet outside the village of Schmedeswurth, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
  Language: German
  Translation: "West levee of the smith's hill-village"
  Wereldtentoonstellingslaan (26 letters)
  
  Location: a lane in Ganshoren, Brussels, Belgium.
  Language: Dutch
  Translation: "World Fair Lane"
  Notes: named after Brussels world fair of 1958
  Haaldersbroekerdwarsstraat (26 letters)
  
  Location: a street in Zaandam, Netherlands.
  Language: Dutch
  Translation: "cross road in Haalderbroek"
  Bullaunancheathrairaluinn (25 letters)
  Location: a bullaun in County Galway, Ireland
  Language: Anglicisation of Irish Ballán an Cheathrair Álainn
  Translation: "Bullaun of the Four Beauties"
  Notes: Believed to be the longest official one-word Irish-derived placename in Ireland.
  Noordhollandschkanaaldijk (25 letters)
  Location: a dike in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  Language: Dutch
  Translation: "North Holland canal dike"
  Blindeliedengasthuissteeg (25 letters)
  Location: an alley in Dordrecht, Netherlands.
  Language: Dutch
  Translation: "Blind craftsmen guesthouse alley "
  Reijmerstokkerdorpsstraat (25 letters)
  Location: a street in Reij
caption: The station sign at Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, with a pronunciation guide underneath.
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