The Longest Lake Name in the World

Lake Chaubunagungamaug, usually known as “Lake Webster” is a lake in the town of Webster, Massachusetts, United States. Coordinates of the location of the lake is 42 ° 02′30 “N 71° 50′30″ W. The lake is bordered by the state of Connecticut. Lake surface area of 5.83 km².

Its full name is written as Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg Lake, 45 characters totally. The name of this lake is the longest place name in the United States, and one of the longest place name in the world. Today, most people are more often referred the lake as “Lake Webster”, but there are also people who like to show skill (including some local residents) in saying the long name in fast speech.

The lake is often called by various names, but Lake Chaubunagungamaug is officially recognized name of the government of the United States. However, local residents and also the official site of Webster’s more like using a long name.

This lake’s name comes from the local language of Nipmuck tribe which means “fishing place at the border”. This lake is a major fishing locations in the border area where a few indigenous tribes, and the location of the meeting of the path into the tribal transportation facilities around the lake. Based on these reasons, these lake is also often used as a meeting place.

Here’s the pictures of that unique lake:

longest lake name in vermont MA

The lake from top

Really a great place for fishing like its name

The logo of the lake

The Longest Bridge - Akashi-Kaikyō Bridge

The Akashi-Kaikyō Bridge, also known as the Pearl Bridge, has the longest central span of any suspension bridge, at 1,991 metres (6,532 ft). It is located in Japan and was completed in 1998. The bridge links the city of Kobe on the mainland of Honshū to Iwaya on Awaji Island by crossing the busy Akashi Strait. It carries part of the Honshū-Shikoku Highway.

The bridge has three spans. The central span is 1,991 m (6,532 ft), and the two other sections are each 960 m (3,150 ft). The bridge is 3,911 m (12,831 ft) long overall. The central span was originally only 1,990 m (6,529 ft), but the Kobe earthquake on January 17, 1995, moved the two towers sufficiently (only the towers had been erected at the time) so that it had to be increased by 1 m (3.3 ft).

The bridge was designed with a two-hinged stiffening girder system, allowing the structure to withstand winds of 286 kilometres per hour (178 mph), earthquakes measuring to 8.5 on the Richter scale, and harsh sea currents. The bridge also contains pendulums that are designed to operate at the resonance frequency of the bridge to damp forces. The two main supporting towers rise 298 m (978 ft) above sea level, and the bridge can expand because of heating up to 2 metres (7 ft) over the course of a day. Each anchorage required 350,000 tonnes (340,000 LT; 390,000 ST) of concrete. The steel cables have 300,000 kilometres (190,000 mi) of wire: each cable is 112 centimetres (44 in) in diameter and contains 36,830 strands of wire.

World's Longest Sausage: 6647-feet (2026-meter)

Kobasicijada is an international sausage festival organized annually in the village of Turija, near Srbobran, Serbia. 26 festivals had been held as of 5 - 7 February, 2010; it is one of the biggest and most popular village festivals in Serbia. The festival is attended by tens of thousands of people every year.

ORGANISERS of an annual sausage festival in the Serbian village of Turija today said they had made the world's longest sausage.

Twelve butchers used the meat of 30 pigs, 40 kilos of paprika, 50 kilos of salt, two kilos of pepper and five kilos of garlic to make a sausage 2026 metres long, the Tanjug news agency reported.

They had been preparing the sausage for four days, but "unfortunately, the representatives of the Guinness Book of World Records did not come to register the new world record for the longest sausage", the agency said.

If you are a fan of sausage this is the opportunity to try, on one place, sausages prepared in various ways (fresh, smoked, baked, boiled) and to attend to create the world's longest sausage.

Every day from 8am to 5pm, sale of fresh, dried and roasted sausages and other meat products.

World's LONGEST officially Place Names

A little village in Wales boasts the longest place name at 58 letters:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

But New Zealand makes the same claim with a hill containing 92 letters:

Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiw
henuaakitanarahu

But after some further digging we found the winner to be Bangkok. OK, so that's only 7 letters, but the official ceremonial name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon for short meaning 'City of Angels'.

The full name of Bangkok has many variations in spelling but we found what is believed to be the official spelling coming in at 163 letters:

Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnopparatraj
athaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathitsakkattiyavisa
nukamprasit




The translation here is pretty much the unabridged history of the city rather than a word.

krungthep mahanakhon
The land of angels, the great city of

amorn rattanakosin
immortality, various of devine gems,

mahintara yudthaya mahadilok pohp
the great angelic land unconquerable,

noparat rajathanee bureerom
land of nine noble gems, the royal city, the pleasant capital,

udomrajniwes mahasatarn
place of the grand royal palace,

amorn pimarn avaltarnsatit
forever land of angels and reincarnated spirits,

sakatattiya visanukram prasit
predestined and created by the highest devas.



Via the BBC

Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit, meaning the 'City of Angels', is known to the locals as Krungthep Mahanakhon. The rest of the world knows it as Bangkok, Thailand. However, it is not recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the longest place name as it is not used on a daily basis by the locals.

The place with the longest name in common usage is a 252 metre high hill in Central Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Taumata whaka tangi hanga koauau o tamatea turi pukakapi ki maunga horo nuku poka i whenua kitana tahu translates as the 'place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as land-eater, played his flute to his loved one'. This is the place name recognised by the Guinness Book of Records. It is sometimes written without the spaces as one long word.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch currently has the prestige of having the UK's longest place name.



Llanfairpwllgwyngyll (long form Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch), also spelt Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll and commonly known as Llanfair PG or Llanfairpwll, is a village and community on the island of Angelesy in Wales , situated on the Menai Strait next to Menai Bridge and across the strait from Bangor.













Officials have agreed to correct spelling errors in road signs pointing to a central Massachusetts lake with a 45-letter name.

Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg in Webster has one of the world’s longest place names. It’s been spelled many different ways over the years. Some locals have given up and simply call it Lake Webster.

But after researching historical spelling combinations, the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester said local Chamber of Commerce officials agreed that some signs were wrong. There was an “o” at letter 20 where a “u” should have been, and an “h” at letter 38 where an “n” should go.