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The computer game Civilization V awards the "Longest. Name. Ever." Steam achievement to players for having a city named Llanfairpwllgwyngyll. [33] In September 2015, Channel 4 News weatherman Liam Dutton went viral around the world after accurately pronouncing the name of the town in one of his weather reports. [34]
The municipality with the longest name in Brazil is Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade, with 32 characters (including spaces). The municipality with the longest name in Mexico is Dolores Hidalgo Cuna de la Independencia Nacional (49 characters). [39] The longest place name in Mexico is San Pedro y San Pablo Tequixtepec (28 letters).
It has gained a measure of fame as it is the longest place name found in any English-speaking country, and possibly the longest place name in the world, according to World Atlas. [2] The name of the hill (with 85 characters) has been listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest place name. Other versions of the name, including longer ...
No, that's not a typo, that is an actual town in northern Wales. At 58 characters it is the longest place name in the United Kingdom and second longest official one-word place name in the world.
However, this definition was raised in the Welsh Assembly in 2010 and the then Counsel General for Wales, John Griffiths, stated, 'Principality is a misnomer and that Wales should properly be referred to as a country.' [52] In 2011, ISO 3166-2:GB was updated and the term 'principality' was replaced with 'country'. [51]
It's the name of a hill in New Zealand, and it's the longest official place name in the world. We can only hope no poor child ever has to spell these bad boys in a spelling bee. Though we're sure ...
A writer in this period noted: "The River Taff runs under the walls of his honours castle and from the north part of the town to the south part where there is a fair quay and a safe harbour for shipping." [35] Cardiff became a borough in 1542 [39] and further Royal Charters were granted to it by Elizabeth I in 1600 [41] and James I in 1608. [42]
Wales has seven cities as of September 2022. Bangor is Wales' oldest cathedral city, [1] whereas St Davids is the smallest city in the United Kingdom. [1] Cardiff is the capital city of Wales and its most-populous, followed by Swansea the second most-populous.