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Note: The longest official one-word place name in Europe, it is also the longest name for a settlement. Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (45 letters); Short forms: Lake Chaubunagungamaug; [1] Webster Lake Lake in Webster, Massachusetts, United States: Nipmuc
In Wales, as in England and Northern Ireland, a town is any settlement which has received a charter of incorporation, more commonly known as a town charter, approved by the monarch [citation needed]. Fifty-five boroughs in Wales were given parliamentary representation in 1536, but the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 recognised only 20 Welsh ...
The long form of the name is the longest place name in the United Kingdom and one of the longest in the world at 58 characters (51 "letters" since "ch" and "ll" are digraphs, and are treated as single letters in the Welsh language).
Cardiff is the capital city of Wales and its most-populous, followed by Swansea the second most-populous. Since 2000, Welsh towns have submitted bids to be awarded city status as part of jubilees of the reigning British monarch or for other events, such as the millennium celebrations , with Newport , St Asaph and Wrexham awarded city status ...
At 58 characters it is the longest place name in the United Kingdom and second longest official one-word place name in the world. SEE MORE: Watch Naomi Watts pronounce the longest town name in Britain
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Caernarfon (/ k ər ˈ n ɑːr v ə n, k ɑːr-/; [2] [3] Welsh: [kaɨrˈnarvɔn] ⓘ) is a royal town, community and port in Gwynedd, Wales.It has a population of 9,852 (with Caeathro). [4] [5] It lies along the A487 road, on the eastern shore of the Menai Strait, opposite the island of Anglesey.
This is a list of place-names in countries outside of Wales which are named after places in Wales, or derived from the Welsh language, or are known to be named after a Welsh person. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .