Wikipedia:Dugnadskontor/Finne og sjekke kuriosa/Liste over verdens lengste stedsnavn

Dette er liste over de lengste stedsnavnene i verden.

• Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu er maorinavnet på en 305 meter høy ås nær Porangahu, sør for Waipukurau i sørlige Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Navnet blir ofte feilaktig betegnet som det verdens lengste stedsnavnet. Navnet betyr «Bakketoppen hvor Tamatea, kjent som 'land-slukeren', mannen med store knær, steg ned fra, klatret opp på, og slukte fjell, mens han spilte nesefløyte for sin elskede.»

• Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit (thai: กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยามหาดิลกภพ นพรัตน์ราชธานี บุรีรมย์อุดมราชนิเวศน์มหาสถาน อมรพิมานอวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยะวิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์). Ofte forkortet til Krung Thep. Bedre kjent som Thailands hovedstad, Bangkok. Er offisiellt verdens lengste stedsnavn. Navnet betyr Englenes by, den store byen, den evige juvelen, den uovervinnelige byen til Indra, den store hovedstaden i verden med ni verdifulle juveler, den lykkelige byen, byen med et stort kongelig palass som ligner himlene der de gjenfødte gudene hersker, en by gitt av Indra og bygd av Vishnukarn.

This is a list of long place names of officially recognized place names.

Single word names

Full name: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateahaumaitawhitiurehaeaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (105 letters)
Short-forms: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu (57 letters)
Location: A hill on 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.

The station sign at "Llanfairpwllgwyngyll"

Full name: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (58 letters)
Short-forms: Llanfairpwllgwyngyll (20 letters)
Location: a town in Gwynedd, Wales
Language: Welsh
Translation: "Saint Mary's Church in a hollow of white hazel near the swirling whirlpool of the church of Saint Tysilio with a red cave"
Notes: The longest official one-word placename in Wales.

Full name: Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (45 letters)
Short-forms: Lake Chaubunagungamaug (17 letters)
Location: a lake in Massachusetts, United States
Language: Nimpuc
Translation: "Fishing Place at the Boundaries -- Neutral Meeting Grounds"
Notes: Believed to be the longest official one-word placename in the United States.

Full name: Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkä (35 letters)
Short-forms:
Location: Lapland, Finland
Language:
Translation:
Notes: The longest official one-word placename in Finland.

Full name: Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik (31 letters)
Short-forms:
Location: a lake in Manitoba and Nunavut, Canada
Language: Inuktitut
Translation:
Notes: The longest official one-word placename in Canada.

Full name: Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya (26 letters)
Short-forms:
Location: a hill in Sør-Australia, Australia
Language: Pitjantjatjara
Translation: "Where the devil urinates"
Notes: The longest official one-word placename in Australia.

Full name: Gasselterboerveenschemond (25 letters)
Short-forms:
Location: a hamlet in Drenthe, Netherlands
Language: Dutch
Translation:
Notes: The longest official one-word placename in the Netherlands.

Full name: Kuchistiniwamiskahikan (22 letters)
Short-forms:
Location: an island in Quebec, Canada
Language:
Translation:
Notes: The longest official one-word placename in Quebec.

Full name: Muckanaghederdauhaulia (22 letters)
Short-forms:
Location: a townland in County Galway, Ireland
Language: anglicisation of Irish Muiceanach idir Dhá Sháile
Translation: "Pig-marsh between two saltwaters"
Notes: The longest official Irish-derived placename in Ireland.

Full name: Newtownmountkennedy (19 letters)
Short-forms:
Location: a village in County Wicklow, Ireland
Language: English
Translation:
Notes: the longest official English-derived placename in Ireland.

Full name: Thiruvananthapuram (18 letters)
Short-forms:
Location: a city in Kerala, India
Language: Malayalam
Translation: "Abode of Lord Ananta"
Notes:

Names with spaces or hyphen

• Bangkok: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit
• Some long U.S. place names appearing in the Geographic Names Information System are:
  • Winchester-on-the-Severn (21 letters) in Maryland, the longest hyphenated placename in the U.S.
  • Little Harbor on the Hillsboro, FL
  • Pops Hammock Seminole Village, FL
  • Friendly Village of Crooked Creek, GA
  • Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
  • Little Diamond Island Landing, ME
  • 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 Landing at Plantation Point, SC
  • Big Thicket Creekmore Village, TX
  • Kinney and Gourlays Improved City Plat, UT
  • Little Cottonwood Creek Valley, UT
  • West Virginia Central Junction, WV
  • Marine on Saint Croix, MN
• The longest place name in Spain is Villarcayo de Merindad de Castilla la Vieja, in the province of Burgos
• The longest place name in Germany is the hamlet of Klein-Niederdreiochsenheimerskirchburg ob der Lahn.
• 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).

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