The world's longest place name has 85 letters — see if you can pronounce it (2024)

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What does Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu mean in English? ›

Near Porangahau in Hawke's Bay is an unassuming hill known as "Taumata whakatangi hangakoauau o tamatea turi pukakapiki maunga horo nuku pokai whenua kitanatahu", which translates into English as "the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as 'landeater', ...

It's Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu. This 1,000-foot hill near the township Porangahau holds the Guinness World Record for longest place name with 85 characters.

The longest officially recognized place name in an English-speaking country is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters), which is a hill in New Zealand. The name is in the Māori language.

Here are seven of the longest place names in the world, from New Zealand to Finland to India. Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, New Zealand. This is one of the longest place names in the world, with 85 letters.

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl… isoleucine is the chemical name for the protein of “titin” also known as “connectin.” The largest known protein that consists of 26, 926 amino acids is made up of 189, 819 letters and can take about three hours to pronounce.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

It's a technical word referring to the lung disease more commonly known as silicosis. Despite being in the dictionary, the word was originally made up by the president of the National Puzzlers' League.

The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and takes 3 hours to pronounce. This is a technical term for the chemical composition of titin. Titin is the largest known protein responsible for maintaining the passive elasticity of the muscles.

L-o-n-g-e-s-t words on earth: 1: THE WORD (Long version of Titin)(189,819 letters) 2:Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. 3:Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (kind of ironic, it means fear of long words) 4:Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (I've been knowing how to say this for YEARS)

As we saw at the start of our hunt, according to a lot of sources the longest word is the technical name for the protein titin. It is the same across all languages and has nearly 200,000 letters. Here's a snippet of the first 1,000 characters!

What is the shortest word? ›

Answer and Explanation: The three shortest words in the English language are I, a, and o although the word o is only usually used in poetry and song lyrics as a contraction or other words. Other than single-letter words there are numerous 2-letter words in English such as on, if and many others.

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl… The chemical name for the protein titin, which spans over 189 thousand letters, is often argued to be the longest word in the world. Its absurd length is due to the fact that proteins are named by combining the names of all of the individual amino acids used to form them.

The longest personal name is 747 characters long, and belongs to Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (b. 4 August 1914, Germany) who passed away on 24 October 1997, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Language: English. In most English dictionaries, the word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest one you are going to find at a whopping 45 letters long. This word refers to a lung disease caused by silica dust.

The longest word entered in most standard English dictionaries is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis with 45 letters.

The second longest place name in the world clocks in at 58 letters. You'll find the village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch on the island of Ynys Môn (known as Anglesey in English), off the coast of Wales.