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10 Most Stupid Guinness World Records
Saturday, July 31, 2010 20:24 3 Comments
#1 The longest place name in the World
The longest place name contains 58 letters
A little village in Wales boasts the longest place name at 58 letters:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
But New Zealand makes the same claim with a hill containing 92 letters:
Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiw
henuaakitanarahu
But after some further digging we found the winner to be Bangkok. OK, so that’s only 7 letters, but the official ceremonial name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon for short meaning ‘City of Angels’.
The full name of Bangkok has many variations in spelling but we found what is believed to be the official spelling coming in at 163 letters:
Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnopparatraj
athaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathitsakkattiyavisa
nukamprasit
The translation here is pretty much the unabridged history of the city rather than a word.
