Here’s the full list:
- Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (58 characters) – Wales: Translation: “The church of St Mary at the pool of the white hazels near the fierce whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave.”
- Saint-Remy-en-Bouzemont-Saint-Genest-et-Isson (45 characters) – France.
- Azpilkuetagaraycosaroyarenberecolarrea (39 characters) – Spain.
- Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkä (35 characters) – Finland. Translation: “The bog on which the storage hut standing on a single pillar and belonging to ‘Paul’, the son of ‘Peter’, the son of ‘Andrew’, stands/stood on”
- San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore (30 charters) – Italy.
- Schmedeswurtherwesterdeich (26 characters) – Germany. Translation: “West levee of the smith’s hill-village”.
- Gasselternijveenschemond (24 characters) – Netherlands. Translation: “Delta of Gasselt’s (surname) new bog”.
- Staronizhestebliyevskaya (24 characters) – Russia. Translation: “The old settlement named after Nizhne-Stebliyevskiy kurin (of Zaporizhian Sich)”
- Svalbarðsstrandarhreppur (23 characters) – Iceland. Translation: “Cool Edge’s Shore’s Municipality”.
- Kvernbergsundsødegården (23 characters) – Norway. Translation: “The Deserted Farm of The Mill Mountain Strait”
- Muckanaghederdauhaulia (22 characters) – Ireland. Translation: “Piggery between two briny places”
- Jászfelsőszentgyörgy (20 characters) – Hungary. Translation: “Upper St. George in Jászság”
- Siemieniakowszczyzna (20 characters) – Poland. Translation: “Ground of Siemieniak”
- Freixo de Espada à Cinta (20 characters) – Portugal.
Do you know of any longer names?
Dick Baumgartel says
Gillyossenfefferkatzenellenbogenbythesea. Why was this missed?
dave nowakowski (only 14 letters) says
I remember first hearing about Lanfair when I was in grade school years ago. You should have heard the nins trying to pronounce 56-letter name, so somebody shortened it quite a bit for us.
dave nowakowski says
should be nuns not nins.
Sheldon A Wiebe says
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the hometown of Tom Jones, who opened the first episode of his weekly variety show by saying, “Hi! I’m Tom Jones from the Welsh town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Next week our guests will be…”