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Names with spaces or hyphens, by continent and country
Asia
India: Dr. Y. S. Rajashekar Reddy Andhra Cricket Association–Visakhapatnam District Cricket Association Cricket Stadium (96 letters),[33] longest place name in India.
Indonesia: The longest place name in Indonesia is the Sitaro Islands Regency, Kabupaten Kepulauan Siau Tagulandang Biaro (Siau Tagulandang Biaro Islands), with 32 characters (including spaces). This is followed by Penukal Abab Lematang Ilir Regency, with 26 characters and 23 letters.
Israel: The longest place name in Israel[3] is כעביה-טבאש-חג'אג'רה (21 letters and 2 hyphens), a local council. it is named for the three Bedouin tribes who live there, Ka'abiyye, Tabbash and Hajajre.
Malaysia: The longest place name in Malaysia is Kampung Simpang Tiga Durian Chondong, with 36 characters (including spaces).
Philippines: The longest municipality name in the Philippines is General Salipada K. Pendatun (24 characters), named after the Mindanaoan general and senator of the same name.
Sri Lanka: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (23 letters)
Thailand
- Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit (176 letters, 7 spaces) Full name of Bangkok, Thailand (Thai: กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยา มหาดิลกภพ นพรัตนราชธานีบูรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์มหาสถาน อมรพิมานอวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยวิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์, 132 letters)
- Some long Thai place names containing at least 20 letters are:
- Bang Pakong Phrom Thep Rangsan (26 letters, 4 spaces) subdistrict municipality, Bang Pakong district, Chachoengsao province (Thai: บางปะกงพรหมเทพรังสรรค์)
- Nikhom Sang Ton-eng Lam Dom Noi (25 letters, 1 hyphen, and 5 spaces) subdistrict, Sirindhorn district, Ubon Ratchathani province (Thai: นิคมสร้างตนเองลําโดมน้อย)
- Mueang Nakhon Si Thammarat (23 letters and 3 spaces) district, Nakhon Si Thammarat province (Thai: เมืองนครศรีธรรมราช)
- Mueang Prachuap Khiri Khan (23 letters and 3 spaces) district, Prachuap Khiri Khan province (Thai: เมืองประจวบคีรีขันธ์)
- Phra Borom Maha Ratchawang (23 letters and 3 spaces) subdistrict, Phra Nakhon District, Bangkok (Thai: พระบรมมหาราชวัง)
- Pak Phanang Fang Tawan Tok (22 letters and 4 spaces; lit. 'Western Pak Phanang') subdistrict, Pak Phanang district, Nakhon Si Thammarat province (Thai: ปากพนังฝั่งตะวันตก)
- Khlong Nakhon Nueang Khet (22 letters and 3 spaces) subdistrict, Mueang Chachoengsao district, Chachoengsao province (Thai: คลองนครเนื่องเขต)
- Mueang Nakhon Ratchasima (22 letters and 2 spaces) district, Nakhon Ratchasima province (Thai: เมืองนครราชสีมา)
- Pak Phanang Fang Tawan Ok (21 letters and 4 spaces; lit. 'Eastern Pak Phanang') subdistrict, Pak Phanang district, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province (Thai: ปากพนังฝั่งตะวันออก)
- Pak Khlong Phasi Charoen (21 letters and 3 spaces) subdistrict, Phasi Charoen district, Bangkok (Thai: ปากคลองภาษีเจริญ)
- Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (21 letters and 3 spaces) province, district, and city municipality (Thai: พระนครศรีอยุธยา)
- Mueang Ubon Ratchathani (21 letters and 2 spaces) district, Ubon Ratchathani province (Thai: เมืองอุบลราชธานี)
- Khlong Udom Chonlachon (20 letters and 2 spaces) subdistrict, Mueang Chachoengsao district, Chachoengsao province (Thai: คลองอุดมชลจร)
- Mueang Samut Songkhram (20 letter and 2 spaces) district, Samut Songkhram province (Thai: เมืองสมุทรสงคราม)
- Thung Kratat Phatthana (20 letters and 2 spaces) subdistrict, Nong Ki district, Buriram province (Thai: ทุ่งกระตาดพัฒนา)
North America
Canada
- Local service district of Lethbridge, Morley's Siding, Brooklyn, Charleston, Jamestown, Portland, Winter Brook and Sweet Bay (80 letters, 87 non-space characters), Newfoundland and Labrador
- United Townships of Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Eyre and Clyde (61 letters, 68 non-space characters), usually shortened to Dysart, et al., Ontario
Mexico
- The longest place name in Mexico is San Pedro y San Pablo Tequixtepec (28 letters).
- The municipality with the longest name in Mexico is Dolores Hidalgo Cuna de la Independencia Nacional (49 characters).[34]
United States
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts (27 letters)
- State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1636–2020) (42 letters)
- Some long U.S. place names appearing in the Geographic Names Information System are:[35]
- Winchester-on-the-Severn, Maryland, and Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas (21 letters, longest hyphenated place names in the U.S.)
- Rancho Santa Margarita, California
- Oxon Hill-Glassmanor, Maryland
- Dalworthington Gardens, Texas
- Little Harbor on the Hillsboro, Florida
- Pops Hammock Seminole Village, Florida
- Friendly Village of Crooked Creek, Georgia
- Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts
- Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida
- The Village of Lakewood, Illinois
- Little Diamond Island Landing, Maine
- Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Orchard Point at Piney Orchard, Maryland
- Point Field Landing on the Severn, Maryland
- Riverside Village of Church Creek, Maryland
- Monmouth Heights at Manalapan, New Jersey
- Staffordville Public Landing, New Jersey
- Holly View Forest-Highland Park, North Carolina
- The Village of Indian Hill, Ohio
- Washington Court House, Ohio
- Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota, Pennsylvania
- The Landing at Plantation Point, South Carolina
- Kinney and Gourlays Improved City Plat, Utah
- Little Cottonwood Creek Valley, Utah
- Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota
- South Chicago Heights, Illinois
- Grand View-on-Hudson, New York
- Lake Norman of Catawba, North Carolina
- The original name of Los Angeles, California, in 1781, was "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula"; in English this means "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of Angels of the Porciúncula River".[36]
- The full, legal name of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is "La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís" ('the Royal Town of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi'). The full name is in both the seal and the flag of the city.
- Truth or Consequences is a spa city and the county seat of Sierra County, New Mexico, United States.
- Bellefontaine Neighbors, Missouri (22 letters) has the longest name of any incorporated place in the United States.
South America
Argentina
- Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre, Buenos Aires (40 letters)
- The longest city name in Argentina is San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca (30 letters).
Brazil: The municipality with the longest name in Brazil is Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade, with 32 characters (including spaces).
Uruguay: Muy Fiel y Reconquistadora Ciudad de San Felipe y Santiago de Montevideo (60 letters)
Venezuela: Santiago de León de Caracas (23 letters)
Europe
Austria: The longest place name in Austria is Sankt Marienkirchen bei Schärding (30 characters) and Pfaffenschlag bei Waidhofen an der Thaya (40 characters).
Belgium: The longest hyphenated name of a settlement in Belgium is Chaussée-Notre-Dame-Louvignies (27 letters).
Croatia: The longest name of a settlement in Croatia is Gornje Mrzlo Polje Mrežničko (25 letters). The English translation is Upper cold field near Mrežnica.
Czech Republic: The longest municipality name in the Czech Republic is the name of Nová Ves u Nového Města na Moravě (33 characters, English translation: "New Village in near of New Town in Moravia).
Finland: The longest place name in Finland is Semmonen niemi, jossa käärme koiraa pisti, in the municipality of Perho (36 characters, including a comma). The English translation is That cape where a snake bit the dog.
France
- The longest names for communes in France are Saint-Remy-en-Bouzemont-Saint-Genest-et-Isson, Marne (45 characters including hyphens), Saint-Germain-de-Tallevende-la-Lande-Vaumont, Calvados (44 characters), and Beaujeu-Saint-Vallier-Pierrejux-et-Quitteur, Haute-Saône (43 characters).
- The longest department name in France is Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (23 characters, including hyphens).
Germany: The longest single place name in Germany is Hellschen-Heringsand-Unterschaar in Schleswig-Holstein (32 characters). In the standard official naming scheme, however, villages are disambiguated by prefixing them with the name of the municipality they are part of. The longest official place name is therefore Michelbach an der Bilz-Gschlachtenbretzingen (40 characters).
Hungary: The longest street name in Hungary is Ferihegyi repülőtérre vezető út. It means "Road leading to the airport at Ferihegy" (28 characters)
Italy: The longest place names in Italy are Pino sulla Sponda del Lago Maggiore and San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore, with 30 letters, or it is Cortaccia sulla Strada del Vino - Kurtatsch an der Weinstraße considering the official name both in Italian and German.
Poland: The longest place names in Poland are Sobienie Kiełczewskie Pierwsze and Przedmieście Szczebrzeszyńskie, with 30 letters (including spaces).
Netherlands: The longest place name in the Netherlands is Westerhaar-Vriezenveensewijk (28 characters, including a hyphen). The longest street name is Laan van de landinrichtingscommissie Duiven-Westervoort in Duiven.[37][38][39]
Russia
- The longest name of a settlement in Russia with spaces (not counting official names of municipalities) is (in ISO 9) "posyolok Central'noj usad'by` sovkhoza imeni 40-letiya Velikogo Oktyabrya" (Russian: посёлок Центральной усадьбы совхоза имени 40-летия Великого Октября, 50 letters (if not counting the word posyolok/посёлок, which is a generic name for a settlement), and 2 digits, which would give another 6 letters). The English translation is a settlement of The Central Farmstead of the Sovkhoz named after the 40-years Anniversary of the Great October.
- The longest hyphenated name of a settlement in Russia is Kremenchug-Konstantinovskoye (Кременчуг-Константиновское, 25 letters). The English translation is (new) Kremenchug named after Konstantin (a first settler).
- Putevaya Usadba 9 km zheleznoy dorogi Luostari–Nikel (Russian: Путевая Усадьба 9 км железной дороги Луостари–Никель) is a rural locality in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It is located within the Arctic Circle. In English, the name translates to Track Homestead 9 km of Luostari-Nikel railway
Spain: The longest place name in Spain is Colinas del Campo de Martín Moro Toledano de Castilla y León, in the province of León (50 characters).
United Kingdom: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (48 letters, longest official name of a country)
- Longest names for Great Britain localities (using the Index of Place Names)[40] and NI (using the OSNI Place Names dataset)[29] include:
- England:
- North Leverton with Habblesthorpe (32 characters)
- Sulhamstead Bannister Upper End (31 characters)
- The longest hyphenated name in England is the 29-letter-long name Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe, the name of a tiny village in North Yorkshire.
- Scotland:
- Ceann a Tuath Loch Baghasdail (29 characters)
- Eastertown of Auchleuchries (27 characters)
- Wales:
- Ynys Llanfihangel-y-traethau (28 characters)
- Llanvihangel-Ystern-Llewern (27 characters)
- Northern Ireland
- Victoria Bridge (15 characters)
- England:
- Longest names for Great Britain localities (using the Index of Place Names)[40] and NI (using the OSNI Place Names dataset)[29] include:
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