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Main Street, USA Archived 2010-11-23 at the Wayback Machine from the Denver Westword; Eat, Drink and Be Merry on East Colfax; ColfaxAvenue.org - Historical Guide to the longest, wickedest street in America. Colfax Avenue Museum - Historic and one-of-a-kind artifacts related to Schuyler Colfax and the street that bears his name, Colfax Avenue.
The longest place names in Poland are Sobienie Kiełczewskie Pierwsze and Przedmieście Szczebrzeszyńskie, with 30 letters (including spaces). The longest place name in the Netherlands is Westerhaar-Vriezenveensewijk (28 characters, including a hyphen). The longest street name is Laan van de landinrichtingscommissie Duiven-Westervoort in Duiven.
The bayou is flanked by Louisiana Highway 1 on the west and Louisiana Highway 308 on the east, and is known as "the longest Main Street in the world." [5] It flows through parts of Ascension, Assumption, and Lafourche parishes. Today, approximately 300,000 Louisiana residents drink water drawn from the bayou. [6]
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Sepulveda Boulevard was formerly the longest street in the city and county of Los Angeles, with the Los Angeles Times reporting in 2006 that it was around 42.8 miles (68.9 km) in length. [1] The City of El Segundo has since renamed their portion SR 1 Pacific Coast Highway.
A palindromic place is a city or town whose name can be read the same forwards or backwards. An example of this would be Navan in Ireland. Some of the entries on this list are only palindromic if the next administrative division they are a part of is also included in the name, such as Adaven, Nevada.
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 ...
It is the longest street in Boston and remains one of the longest streets in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. [1] Due to various municipal annexations with the city of Boston, the name Washington Street now exists six or more times within the jurisdiction(s) of the City of Boston.