The Town with the Longest Place Name on Earth

Picture of the Welsh town with the second longest place name.


It’s stressful enough if you want to board a taxi and you are required to give your destination as TWEEBUFFELSMETEENSKOOTMORSDOODGESKIETFONTEIN, in the North West province of South Africa.


Also imagine if you were required to fill a form in school and you had to list your place of origin as LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH in Wales, United Kingdom.


Let’s make way for the inhabitants of TAUMATAWHAKATANGIHANGAKOUAUAUOTAMATEATURIPUKAKAPIKIMAUNGAHORONUKUPOKAIWHENUAKITANATAHU, in New Zealand.


Standing at 85 letters long, this town in New Zealand holds the Guinness world record for the longest official place name in the world.

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