The longest city names in the world. The longest city name - try to pronounce it! Long name of the capital

Every huge metropolis and small village has its own unique story titles. Some settlements were named after famous people who contributed to the development of that area. Others received names related to picturesque nature region. But there are the most long titles 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 territory 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 dangerous criminals. Until 1926, the city with the longest name was called Alexander Post (it was named after one of the Russian emperors). After the city was appointed administrative center Sakhalin region, therefore it was renamed Aleksandrovsk-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 local residents) as "Church holy 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 on 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, a majestic city, a settlement - an eternal diamond, an indestructible settlement of the majestic god Indra, great capital all over the world, which was gifted with nine beautiful precious stones, the happiest city, full of all kinds of blessings, the unique Royal Palace, which is a divine cradle where the reborn almighty god sits, the 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 words are outdated, and this moment are not 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: El Pueblo De Nustra Señora La Reina De Los Angeles De La Porcincula.

It means "Village" 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. His 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

Story 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 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 tribe ( Tierra del Fuego). 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 most a large number of There are 363 exons found in one 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 big 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 constructed according to the type eighty-four. 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?

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 east coast of the Chao Phray River, near its mouth, is one of largest cities 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 Bangkok now represents historical and cultural value and is included in tourist routes.

Modern Bangkok - successful developing city with a population of about 9 million people. Every year at two major airports Bangkok, Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang attract thousands of tourists who want 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 in the village there is high school, House of Culture, kindergarten, post office, library and 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 locality. 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.

There are a huge number of different interesting places, which amaze with their beauty and remain in the heart for a long time, and some of them are also famous for their name, since they can easily pass for a tongue twister. Some of them include only one word, many consist of many, the most important thing is that such a name is very difficult to pronounce the first time. Here is a list of the longest and most difficult of them to pronounce; let's try to pronounce them out loud together.

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This country has a city whose name has 168 letters and is one of the longest (or maybe the longest) names in the world. This is the ceremonial name of the capital of Thailand - Bangkok: Krun Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Nopparat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Aman Piman Avatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Vitsanukam Prasit. Unfortunately, not everyone can pronounce it, so airports use a shortened version that sounds like Krung Thep. All these words have a certain meaning, which characterize this place as a city of angels, great city, precious city, impregnable city of God Indra, great capital of the world, endowed with nine precious stones, happy city, abounding Royal Palace, which resembles the divine abode where the incarnation of god reigns, the city worshiping Indra, built by Vishnukarn. Oh, what a name, you must agree! You can break your tongue! By the way, since you are already in Thailand, it would be a sin not to visit Bangkok - one of.

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So, before you are 85 letters combined into one word: Taumatavhakataprikimaungahoronukupokaiivhenuakitanatahu. This name proclaims one place in New Zealand as “the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, slid and climbed, swallowing the mountains around, which are known as the lands of the cannibals, and played the flute to be loved. This name is listed in the Book of Records as the longest word-name in the world. By the way, you have nothing to fear in this country, because New Zealand included in .

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This word can be called downright modest, compared to the previous one. It has “only” 58 letters, and the place itself is located on the island of Anglesey in Wales. In fact, the authenticity of this name has not been proven, Llanwyrepullgwingyllgogerihuirndrobulllantisiliogogoh. It is believed that at first the name had about 20 letters, and one tailor decided to deceive everyone and in the 19th century added another 38 letters on top. Whether it’s a hoax or not, it doesn’t matter, this place is famous for its name, which is quite logical and understandable.

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Pekvachanamaikosquasquaypinwanik is the name of a lake in Canada, and the longest of any official word in the country. Translated, this means a lake in which trout are caught on a hook.

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Meallan Liath Coire Mhic Dhubhghail- this is one of the most most beautiful places in Scotland, which also has the longest in this country. This is very big mountain with many peaks, lakes and kars (glaciers in the highlands). Many people go there on excursions, which certainly teases and attracts everyone who is passionate about this type of entertainment. And don't forget to visit one of.

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A lake with a very “simple” name Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg You can easily meet in Webster, MA. This is supposed to be one of the longest official names in the United States of America. Its name translates as “everyone fishes from his own side, and no one claims to be in the middle.” It is the second largest fresh body of water in the state and is also known as Lake Webster.

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Next on our list is the name of a farm in South Africa that reads like Twibuffelsmetinycutmorsdudgeskitfontein. This is the longest name in Afrikaans - state language this place. And the “name” itself means “spring, when two buffalos are killed with one shot.”

Perhaps someone has been to these places? Or do you just live near the places I listed or something similar that is not on my list? I would be very interested to learn new facts about the longest names in the world!