# What's the longest placename you've visited? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 4, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-placename-youve-visited/601808 "2011-11-04T02:08:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-placename-youve-visited/601808/21 "2011-11-06T18:54:37Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > I think that’s the only reason 99% of people go there. Probably true. For us, it was a ~20-minute rest stop on a coach tour in northern Wales. ---
**Author:** ![kjckjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@kjckjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjckjc)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-placename-youve-visited/601808/22 "2011-11-06T20:31:06Z")
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg > [@Motorgirl](#): > > I’ve been. Husband grew up there. Not IN it, but on the shore. I have been there, thought it was called Lake Webster at the time. And course not IN it silly, you grow up on your side, I grow up on my side and nobody grows up in the middle! ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-placename-youve-visited/601808/23 "2011-11-06T20:43:22Z")
And I thought my time in [Thiruvananthapuram](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiruvananthapuram) in India was notable. Just [listen](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Thiruvananthapuram-pronunciation.ogg) to it! That said, it’s the name of a major city and is said in it’s full form relatively often (although people often default to it’s old name of Trivandrum). I think that’s a different beast than an obscure hill that people rarely refer to unless they are talking about that hill with a long name. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-placename-youve-visited/601808/24 "2011-11-06T21:53:43Z")
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in England, Achnasheen in Scotland, Mont-Saint-Michel in Europe and Ho Chi Minh City (if the ‘City’ counts) worldwide. Or long story short, Bangkok. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-placename-youve-visited/601808/25 "2011-11-06T22:35:49Z")
> [@kjckjc](#): > > Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg > I have been there, thought it was called Lake Webster at the time. And course not IN it silly, you grow up on your side, I grow up on my side and nobody grows up in the middle! It’s still called Webster Lake. Probably Webster elementary school teachers are the main people who still use the original name, and probably only once per year. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-placename-youve-visited/601808/26 "2011-11-06T23:14:29Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Are you kidding? I’ve never even been to Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, and that’s local. I’ve been there. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-placename-youve-visited/601808/27 "2011-11-06T23:31:42Z")
El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula, California ---
**Author:** ![silk1976](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@silk1976](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silk1976)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-placename-youve-visited/601808/28 "2011-11-07T21:54:09Z")
> [@congodwarf](#): > > It’s still called Webster Lake. Probably Webster elementary school teachers are the main people who still use the original name, and probably only once per year. 😃 I’m from W Mass, and my 6th grade social studies teacher made us learn how to say it. To this day I roll the name off my tongue and people look at me like ‘WTF?!’ Every year there are a couple sprint triathlons where the swim is in the lake - so I’ve swum in it. It’s a lake - a nice lake, but still a lake. Most notable thing is its name. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-placename-youve-visited/601808/29 "2011-11-08T00:10:21Z")
Nothing too fancy - I’ve been to the side of Eyjafjallajökull and I walked on Svínafellsjökull. The same day I bathed in Seljavallalaug. As single words, they have a lot of letters. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-placename-youve-visited/601808/30 "2011-11-08T00:21:57Z")
There are a significant number of counties in the mid-Atlantic area of the us that are at least three words. VA: James City County (been there) Prince William County (been there) Prince George County (haven’t been there) Prince Edward County (haven’t been there) MD: Anne Arundel County (been there) Prince George’s County (been there) Queen Anne’s County (been there) ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-placename-youve-visited/601808/31 "2011-11-08T00:29:58Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > There are a significant number of counties in the mid-Atlantic area of the us that are at least three words. That’s nothing: there’s a state with a name that’s seven words – State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations – though I haven’t been there. I have, however, lived in a four-word county – West Riding of Yorkshire – and currently live in a five-word state – State of New South Wales. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-placename-youve-visited/601808.md?page=1)