Each huge metropolis and small village has its own unique name history. Some settlements were named after famous people who contributed to the development of that area. Others received names associated with the picturesque nature of the region. But there are some of the longest names of places in the world that you won’t be able to pronounce the first time.
Russian record holders
In Russia, there are several settlements with long names. These are mainly villages and towns located in the northern part of the Russian Federation. The longest name of a city in Russia is Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, located on Sakhalin Island. This city has the most letters in its name, but its population is extremely small (does not exceed ten thousand people).
Initially, there was a military post in its place. Later the city became a place of exile for dangerous criminals. Until 1926, the city with the longest name was called Alexander Post (it was named after one of the Russian emperors). Afterwards the city was designated the administrative center of the Sakhalin region, so it was renamed Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky. This name retained the original name of the settlement and added an indication of its location.
Longest town name in England
Llanwyre Pwllgwyngill is famous throughout the world. Many local residents love to argue with visiting tourists over the fact that travelers will not be able to clearly and correctly pronounce its entire name right away due to the specifics of the local language. Llanvair Pwllgwyngill is located in Wells, UK. Anyone who manages to pronounce the longest name of the city without hesitation can safely be hired as a television announcer.
But this area also has an unofficial, longer name - Llanwirepullguingillgogerihuirndrobullllantysiliogogogoch. The name itself can be translated from Welsh (the indigenous language of the local residents) as “The Church of St. Mary in the vicinity of a mighty hazel tree near the great whirlpool and the Church of St. Tisilio near the bloody cave.” This place is also famous for the fact that the sign at the only railway station is the most famous and visited place in the country.
Longest city name in the world
Bangkok is considered the record holder for the number of letters in its name (the city is even listed in the Guinness Book of Records). And immediately this version may seem implausible, because the word “Bangkok” has only seven letters. But this is only an abbreviated version, which is adopted for ease of pronunciation. The longest name of the city is: Krun Thep Mahanahon Amon Ratanakosin Mahintarayuthaya Mahadlok Phop Noparat Rachatani Burirom Udomratchaniwe Mahasatan Amon Piman Avata Sati Sakathattiya Vitsanukam Prasit.
And it can be translated from the local language something like this: “The city of heavenly angels, the majestic city, the settlement - the eternal diamond, the indestructible settlement of the majestic god Indra, the great capital in the whole world, which was endowed with nine beautiful precious stones, the happiest city, full of all kinds of blessings, the unique Royal A palace representing a divine cradle where the reborn almighty god sits, a city received by people from the great Indra and erected by the inviolable Vishnukarn.” But it is difficult to accurately interpret the meaning of the words in the name of this capital, since many of the words are outdated and are not currently used by modern Thais.
Los Angeles
Immediately behind these record holders is another city, which everyone is accustomed to calling by a shorter name. It is located in the United States of America and is better known as Los Angeles. Although the longest name of the city is pronounced like this: El Pueblo De Nustra Señora La Reina De Los Angeles De La Porcinkula.
This means "The village of the immaculate Virgin Mary, Queen of heavenly Angels, on the Porsyunkula River." Initially, this name was given to a small village, but in 1820 the area grew, becoming a small town in the state of California. At the moment, the city is the largest in terms of population in the state and the second in the country.
Santa Fe
Following Los Angeles is another American city - Santa Fe. As in previous cases, this is just a familiar abbreviated name. The true name is pronounced like this: Willa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asis. The settlement is located in the state of New Mexico. Its unusual name can be translated this way: “Royal City of the Sacred Faith of St. Francis of Assisi.” Previously, several villages were located in its place. After several unsuccessful attempts to conquer these lands, a fairly large provincial town was located here.
History in city names
The history of various cities is quite interesting, but even more interesting are their unusual, intriguing names. Such facts easily attract curious tourists from all over the world. Of course, despite the fact that the desire to travel appeared quite a long time ago, such names were not given with the aim of attracting anyone. They were given in honor of holy martyrs, famous personalities, reigning persons and other famous people and characters.
But the fact remains that they have survived to this day, and now many are trying to get to know these cities more deeply, to understand why such a name was given. This is quite a fascinating and amazing process that anyone can join.
The longest word in the world June 21st, 2017
The longest official name is a 305 meter high hill located in New Zealand.
Mamihlapinatapai (sometimes spelled mamihlapinatapei) is a word from the language of the Yagan (Tierra del Fuego) tribe. It is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the "most compressed word" and considered one of the most difficult words to translate.
Mamihlapinatapai means " A look between two people that expresses the desire of each that the other will initiate what both want, but neither wants to be the first».
And here's what world's longest word?
The full chemical name of the largest protein contains 189,819 letters and is considered the longest word in any language.
Titin, also known as connectin, is a giant protein consisting of 244 individually folded protein regions connected by an unstructured peptide sequence.
In addition, the titin gene contains the largest number of exons, 363, found in a single gene.
Titin plays an important role in the contraction of striated muscle tissue, but it is best known by its technical name, which is considered the longest word in any language in the world.
The name "titin" is borrowed from the Greek word "titan" (giant deity, something of large size). The chemical name starts with methionyl...and ends with...isoleucine.
The full name of the largest protein would take up a lot of space in this post, but you
If you really want to hear what the longest word in the world sounds like, you can watch the video, which takes almost 3.5 hours to fully pronounce this name.
Interestingly, you won’t even see the full chemical name of titin in dictionaries, since dictionary compilers consider the names of chemical compounds to be a verbal formula, not a word. But no matter what you call it: a word, a formula or a whole story, it is extremely long.
The longest word in the Russian language has not yet been determined for a number of reasons. Theoretically, one of these words could be the adjectiveahydropyridopyridine, consisting of 55 letters. But will such a choice of winner be fair, because in analytical, let’s say, chemistry, the names of substances can be constructed according to a certain scheme and sometimes reach downright cosmic values.
Another frequently cited example is the construction of a word by adding the prefix right-. Its quantity can be unlimited, therefore, there will be plenty of letters in such a word.
Various words that contain a numeral and denote any value are also popular - one thousand eight hundred seventy-nine centimeters, or built like eighty-four years old. To indicate the age of, for example, the Earth. So there are countless possibilities for word creation. You can combine the options for quite a long time, because, as we know, there are a lot of natural numbers. That is, you can ask yourself to express the diameter of the Earth in millimeters, and you can only imagine how many letters there will be in this newborn word. In view of this, the task of finding the longest word in the Russian language, alas, will not be crowned with success. Moreover, most of these words seem almost like monsters to the average person, and are not used at all in ordinary speech. Only on a local scale. That is, it is quite possible to find the longest word among parts of speech, for example, verbs or nouns.
Some difficulties are also created by the lack of agreement on whether different word forms can be used. So, for example, in the Guinness Book of Records in 1993, the longest word was the word X-ray electrocardiographic (33 letters), in the 2003 edition - highly considerate (35 letters). In the first case, an analogue of the word could be used - ente(42 letters). Disputes arose, naturally, due to the fact that, as we can see, in the first case the word was used in the genitive case, and in the second the spelling, for example, in the same case, would be longer by a letter. In general, the record-breaking words were never recognized, because the information is quite subjective and cannot be confirmed.
How do you like this longest abbreviation? (56 characters)
NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBORMONNIMONKO H-OTDTECHSTROMONT
Research laboratory of operations for concrete reinforcement and reinforced concrete work for the construction of prefabricated monolithic and monolithic structures of the technology department of the construction and installation department of the Academy of Construction and Architecture of the USSR. That is, you can imagine how the employees of this organization answered the question about work.
Now let's talk about the very best of their kind.
Longest adjective with a hyphen: agricultural engineering (38 letters).
The longest nouns with a hyphen are: uprooter-bulldozer-loader and animate-inanimate (31 letters).
The longest noun without a hyphen: water-mud-peat-paraffin treatment (29 letters).
Longest adjective without a hyphen: electrophotosemiconductor (28 letters). These data are kindly provided by the spelling dictionary of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The grammatical dictionary of A.A. Zaliznyak, published in 2003, believes that: the longest (in letters) common noun lexeme in dictionary form is the adjective private entrepreneur (25 letters; word forms in -ogo and -imi - 26 letters).
The longest verbs are to re-examine, to substantiate and to internationalize (all - 24 letters; the participles formed from them with the ending -uyuschie and the gerunds ending -ovavshisya - 25 letters each). The first time I couldn’t even immediately imagine the meaning of the second word...
The longest nouns are misanthropy and eminence (24 letters each; word forms in -ami - 26 letters each)
The longest animate nouns are eleventh-grader (20 letters) and clerk (21 letters), word forms in -ami are 22 and 23 letters, respectively.
The longest adverb recorded by the dictionary is unsatisfactory (19 letters). We should not forget that the overwhelming majority of qualitative adjectives ending in -y and -iy form adverbs in -о, -е or -и, which are not always recorded in the dictionary.
The longest interjection included in the dictionary is the slightly rude fizkult-hello (14 letters).
The word accordingly (14 letters) is also the longest preposition. The longest particle is exclusively a letter shorter.
But in addition to long, little-known and highly specialized words, there are also champions in literature, for example, the word for good consideration, which Nikolai Leskov used in the story “Hare Remise”. The most interesting thing is that no one knows the true meaning, it is quite likely that the author himself invented it . But probably everyone can imagine its meaning.
Our language hides a lot of interesting things, and I think the number of record-breaking words does not in any way affect the power and beauty of our Russian speech. While collecting information for this article, I learned an incredible number of interesting things. And for some reason I remembered that when I was seven years old I thought that the word electrosynchrophasotron was, well, the longest one, and Staroportofrankovskaya Street was generally something out of science fiction. Beliefs change...And most importantly, language is not something static, and is daily replenished with neologisms; he lives, is reborn, and it is unknown how long the champion word can become. Although, judging by the current desire of young people to shorten the word beyond recognition, it is still unknown who will win...
And when I was studying at the institute, there was a student in our group who considered his last name to be the longest in Russia - Skorobogatko - 13 letters, who has more?
The Kingdom of Thailand is located in the very center of Southeast Asia and its outline resembles the head of an elephant, and its area is comparable to the territory of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
Great Siam, never conquered in its 7-century history, changed its absolute monarchy to a constitutional one in 1932, and soon changed its name: the Thai word "tai"(meaning "free") was combined with the English word "land"(translated as “land”) and Thailand appeared - land of the free.
Longest capital name in the world
The capital of the kingdom is Bangkok, the 17th largest city in Asia, which, like the resorts of the kingdom, is always warm, the temperature does not drop below 22 degrees. Even during the rainy season, Bangkok is filled with sunshine, and the showers here pass as quickly as they begin. Even 100 years ago, having visited Bangkok, travelers said that they had seen the Venice of the East, and today Bangkok and its attractions are more like New York with the same skyscrapers, traffic jams and noisy streets.
Here you can meet people of any nationality, but the most smiling of all are the Thais: it is not for nothing that the world calls Thailand the land of smiles.
Bangkok is a huge city where almost 15 million people live today ( according to 2012 data). But the Thais themselves do not call it Bangkok, for them it is Krung Thep, which translated from Thai means “City of Angels”. The name of the capital of Thailand is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest name of the capital of a state in the world and consists of 30 words. Any Thai person on the street will pronounce the full name of his City of Angels without hesitation (they begin to teach it along with the alphabet in the first grade of school - website note):
Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintarayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Nopparat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Avatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Vitsanukam Prasit.
And it translates like this:
The capital of the angels, the great city, the immortal divine jewel and fortress, the great land that cannot be conquered, the great and prosperous kingdom, the magnificent and wonderful capital of the nine precious stones, the place where the greatest rulers live and the great palace is located, the abode of the gods, the magnificent creation of the god Vishnu.
Royal altars with photographs of the monarch and his family are everywhere. Nobody forces Thais to worship them; it comes from sincere love. You can go to jail for insulting the king, but such a thing would never occur to anyone. Rama IX is a role model who has earned the honor and respect of the people during his long life.
The Thais turned their City of Angels into a modern capital, building new areas with huge shopping centers, expensive shops, luxury hotels on the top floors of skyscrapers, thousands of restaurants, and endless markets.
On the streets of Bangkok they sell absolutely everything: clothes, souvenirs, jewelry. Moreover, trade here is in full swing day and night, surprising Europeans with cheap prices. Particularly cheap at such stores are items from well-known designer brands, sewn by Thai craftswomen using their own patterns.
By the way, Thais love to bargain, and even if there is a price tag on a product, this does not mean that that is exactly what you need to pay for it.
What was the capital of Thailand like before?
Bangkok was once called the Venice of the East. 200 years ago, travelers who came here from Europe saw a luxurious city built on the water, where beautiful temples and palaces lined the streets. Bangkok was built according to the design of the former capital of Thailand - the city of Ayutthaya, i.e. on the water. King Rama V, when he chose a place for the new capital, ordered canals to be dug here. However, at the end of the 19th century, the kings of Thailand began to travel to Europe, saw that self-propelled carriages were in vogue and began to fill the canals of Bangkok with earth to build roads.
What remains today of the Venice of the East is a few poor neighborhoods with shacks. Perhaps someday they will also be covered with earth, but for now tourists are brought here to show what the capital of Thailand and the sights of Bangkok used to be like. Many of the shacks built next to other people's houses do not even have a postal address, but there are also old mansions with lush gardens where Bangkok's intelligentsia lived for generations. There are many monitor lizards and fish in the canals. And to this day, these canals serve not only as streets, but also as water supply and even sewage systems.
Thai cuisine
Gourmets around the world discovered Thai cuisine only 20-30 years ago. The culinary art of Thailand owes a lot to China and India - the food is just as spicy and is cooked mainly over an open fire, but Thai cuisine is distinguished by spices and seasonings. Thais love to mix things that cannot be mixed for European tastes: sweet and salty or bitter, hot and sour, fish and meat. You can fall in love with it, but not right away.
The Amita Thai Cuisine School is a legendary place and probably the only one of its kind, because here you can really learn how to cook several Thai dishes and, most importantly, remember how it’s done. Here you will be taught how to cook four dishes that can change Europeans' perception of Thai cuisine for the better: a hot dish, a cold appetizer, a side dish and a salad for dessert. The most difficult part, of course, is the hot one - chicken curry in coconut milk. First, they show you the whole cooking process, explaining what needs to be put in and in what order, which ingredients can be changed to taste, for example, the amount of hot curry, green pepper and beans, and which ones not - coconut milk, fish sauce and cane sugar. After cooking, you can try it all, and then cook it yourself. The lesson will cost you 3,000 baht (approximately 3,000 rubles).
A lot of food is sold on the streets of the capital. Wheeled carts are always equipped with hotplates. Thais love hot food, eating up to 6 meals a day. During a meal, it is completely pointless to distract them, because food is the main thing in the life of a Thai, because it is during food that communication takes place. Most often, Thai food looks extremely unappetizing to our foreign eyes, but contrary to popular belief, Thais eat not only grasshoppers, crickets and other insects, although this is true. Thai cuisine is exquisite, of course not on street stalls, but more on that below.
"Ancient city"
One of the attractions of Thailand, located 45 km from Bangkok, is Muang Boran Park, which means “Ancient City” in Thai. On an area of 350 hectares, the Thais have recreated 116 of their most revered and famous architectural monuments created in the Kingdom of Siam over the past 800 years. Palaces and temples are made on a scale of 1:2
The ancient city is attractive because once you visit it, you can get an idea of the architecture of the entire country. The territory of the park is huge, so it is better to move around it in an electric car - this way you can see more. The cost of an excursion on an electric car is 1,400 baht, and on a general tram - 300.
floating market
80 km from the capital is the largest floating market in Thailand, “Canonam Kun Tunkin”, which is translated from Thai as “flower market”, because once upon a time there were not shopping arcades along the banks, but flower fields. Here you can buy anything you want and very cheaply, from fruits and vegetables to home furnishings.
Be sure to watch your hands so as not to get your fingers pinched by nearby boats.
The market wakes up at 6 in the morning and the first to appear on the canals are fish merchants, and by 10 they are no longer here - perishable goods give way to vegetables, fruits, souvenirs, clothes and all sorts of things that are attractive to tourists and useless to the Thais themselves)
Locals come here mainly for food and sometimes for hats, which are here for every taste: Vietnamese, Thai, colonial era.
Tourists are always delighted with the floating market: drinking coconut milk while sitting on a boat is a rare pleasure, and renting a boat costs only 100 baht per hour. There is no need for a guide at the market, and its main rule is very simple - bargain. And to the last, because the price can be reduced even 5 times, because for tourists it is specially inflated. When buying fruit, it is not customary to bargain. Food, fruits, and vegetables are mainly bought here by local Thais and all this is really very cheap, especially what seems exotic to us and is not sold in Russia!
Bangkok from the ship
Only from the water can you see how Bangkok truly lives. You can sail on a boat past the shacks that have remained here since the mid-50s of the 20th century, opposite which stand modern skyscrapers of 50 floors with a completely different life. A walk along the canals of Bangkok is akin to exotic for tourists: there are very few blocks left on the water, and if they used to be the center of the city, they are now considered the outskirts.
The City of Angels is one of those that doesn’t sleep at night, you can shop until 12 at night, listen to music in street bars, and if you want something special, it’s time to see Bangkok at night from aboard a ship. Pleasure boats are always filled to capacity - this is much more interesting than going to a regular restaurant, especially in places where tourists gather, including large shopping centers, hotels and even theaters, dinner is no less important than a performance. The Thais do not impose their food at all - the buffet consists of Thai, European, Indian and Japanese cuisine, especially loved by tourists from Russia.
Only from a cruise boat at dawn at 6 a.m. or after sunset (in Bangkok it sets at 6 p.m. all year round), you can see Wat Arun, the Temple of the Dawn, in its glory. His stupa is still the tallest in Thailand - almost 80 meters. The tiers of Wat Arun symbolize the multiplicity of worlds, in the existence of which the Thais, of course, believe, and these worlds, apparently, are more beautiful than even the magnificent creation of the god Vishnu - the City of Angels, known to us as Bangkok.
In the world there are a great many long, strange, sometimes even incomprehensible names of villages and cities, rivers and lakes, mountains and plains, and just names. All these names are generated by the human mind and imagination, the limits of which, as we know, do not exist. As an example of a flight of fancy and imagination, consider the names of some cities in the world and Russia.
In the world
On the east coast of the Chao Phray River, near its mouth, is one of the largest cities in Thailand with a population of five million. This is the capital of Thailand, Bangkok. However, the real name of this city sounds slightly different - Krung Tep, or City of Angels.
This city name, in terms of its length, is not impressive. The thing is that we use a name that is more concise and easier to pronounce. The historical name of Bangkok is completely different. In its native language it consists of 30 words and when translated it sounds something like this: “The City of Angels, impregnable and greatest, which is the residence of the emerald Buddha, the greatest of the capitals of the world, blessed with 9 centuries-old stones, decorated with majestic royal palaces, beautiful as a paradise. , ruled by the confidant of God, a city bestowed by Indra and rebuilt by Wissanukam."
Once upon a time, Bangkok was called the Venice of the East. This name was given to the city by ancient travelers who visited it about two hundred years ago. The name was not chosen by chance; at that time the city stood on the river bank, literally in the water. Soon, King Ram V ordered canals to be dug for drainage. This is how “water” streets appeared, making it look like Venice.
In the 19th century, these canals were filled with earth and turned into roads. The motivation for such changes was the fashion for self-propelled carriages, which dominated Europe at that time. The fashion was adopted by the Thai kings, who had the opportunity to visit this country and see, and then adopt, a fashionable innovation.
To this day, only a few neighborhoods have survived from the Venice of the East, most of which are inhabited by poor people living literally in shacks. Many of the shacks are attached to other houses and do not even have their own street address. However, here you can still see mansions surrounded by lush gardens, in which the descendants of noble people live to this day. The streets of the quarter are represented by canals, just like many years ago. They still serve as water supply and even sewage systems to this day. This ancient part of Bangkok is now of historical and cultural value and is included in tourist routes.
Modern Bangkok is a successfully developing city with a population of about 9 million people. Every year, thousands of tourists arrive at Bangkok's two major airports, Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang, to explore its attractions. Bangkok is growing and developing rapidly, becoming a modern metropolis, but it manages to preserve traditional Asian culture. The city is rich in museums, ancient and newly built Buddha temples.
In Russia
Russia is also rich in cities with long names. Moreover, in our country there are long names of cities, consisting of the same number of letters and even words, so choosing a record holder for the length of a city name is almost impossible. It would be more appropriate to compare the length of the names of settlements rather than cities or villages.
The record-breaking long name belongs to a small village located in the Zaraisky district of the Moscow region. This is about Central estate of the state farm named after the 40th anniversary of the Great October Revolution. The village is part of the Mashonovskoye rural settlement. Now it is home to about 1,000 people.
It appeared in 1933 and was the Central estate of a state farm engaged in breeding pigs. At that time it was called Kaganovich, but in 1957 it was renamed. Nowadays, the village has a secondary school, a House of Culture, a kindergarten, a post office, a library and an outpatient clinic, but the pig farm no longer exists there.
The longest name of a settlement consists of 27 characters and belongs to the village of Kremenchug-Konstantinovskoye. The village is located in Kabardino-Balkaria. Founded in 1885 by so-called settlers, originally from the Kremenchug province. They went to the Caucasus in search of better living conditions. In the town of Kabarda, from a local prince named Inalov, they rented land on which they subsequently settled. The new settlers settled in separate hamlets, giving each a name derived from the name of the place from which they came. These names stuck and still exist, now as the names of the village districts.
The modern name, Kremenchug-Konstantinovskoe, appeared after the farms were united into a single settlement. Its name was based on the name of the farm of the first settlers - Kremenchug and the name of the settler founder - Konstantin. Local residents have an unofficial short name for the village, Krem-Konstantinovka, or even shorter - Kremka.
There are two more villages in Russia that have record-breaking names. These are Verkhnenovokutlumbetyevo, which is in the Orenburg region, and Starokozmodemyanovskoye, located in the Tambov region. The names of these villages have exactly 23 letters and no hyphen.
If some cities have strange and sometimes very funny names, then we will talk about others. Before pronouncing the names of the following cities, you need to draw as much air into your lungs as possible. And some of them can hardly be said in one breath.
So here are the next top 5 longest titles. And we'll start in descending order.
This is the name of a city located in the north of Scotland. It can be translated as follows: “The Church of St. Mary, located in the hazel tree, near the rapid whirlpool near the red cave.” Logical and easy, right?
This is not a city, but a lake. However, we decided to include it on our list. It is located in the United States. This title can be translated as "Englishman fishing, near the border with Manchaug"
3rd place – United Townships of Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Eyre and Clyde
This small town, which stands out so much by its name, is located in Canada. It seems that officials were never able to decide on its final name, and it remained in the discussion phase.
This city with a wonderful name is located in New Zealand. In the Maori language we can translate it as "The place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, then rose and swallowed the mountains, the eater of the earth, played the flute here for his beloved." It sounds more like a short story than the name of a city.
1st place – Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit
This is an unimaginably long name of a city in Thailand. We translate it very simply - Bangkok!
