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10 of the World’s Longest Names

Published by valli in Offbeat
February 25, 2008

Can you imagine the longest name of a country? It is not UK which has the official name of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland with 48 letters. You can find 10 of the world’s longest names here.

Longest Book Title

The record of longest book title now goes to Nigel Tomm which has 3,999 letters.

The full title of the book is Selected Works of Nigel Tomm (2006/2007) (Shakespeare’s Sonnets Remixed 2006 / Shakespeare’s Hamlet Remixed 2007 / Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Remixed 2007 / Including Previously Unpublished Elvis Presley’s Love Me Tender Remix 2007) Nigel Tomm is The Winner of The Anonymous Writers Club Award 2006 for The Best Anonymous Writer / Deconstructed Poetry Award 2006 for Innovations and Teamwork in Poetry / Decadence Prize 2007 for The Lifestyle / Flashy Rococo Coco Award 2006 for Flashy Thoughts / Baby Boomers Award 2006 for The Best Marketing / Anonymous Artists Prize 2007 for The Best Anonymous Artist / Life Academy Award 2006 for Ignorance of Some Aspects of Life / Graphomania Award 2007 for Writing / Formal English Institute Award 2006 for English Grammar Improvements / House of Original Remixes Award 2006 for Creativity / WordKillers Award 2006 for Killing Some Words Sometimes in Some Books / iStyle Award 2006 for Being Unnamed Style Icon / Librarians Under Sixty Award 2007 for Staying Young / Comedy Association Award 2007 for The Best Drama / Happy Dramatists Award 2006 for The Realest Reality Show / New Forms Award 2006 for Rediscovering Something Old / Best of The Best Award 2007 for Being The Best of The Bests / Alaska Lifetime Achievement Prize 2006 for Bringing The Sun to Canada / Flaming Unisex Award 2007 for Coming to Flaming Unisex Awards / Random Books Award 2006 for Random Words Which Sometimes Sell / Happy Housekeepers Award 2007 for Being an Example to Follow / Wild Foresters Award 2006 for Saving Trees from Book Lovers / Writing Bodybuilders Award 2007 for Keeping Nice Forms / Life Coaching Without Words Award 2006 for Bringing New Life to Some Words / Writing for Writing Foundation Award 2007 for Rewriting Some Writings / Speaking Parrots Award 2007 for Some Fresh Phrases / CopyPasters Award 2007 for Recopying Shakespeare / Silent People Award 2006 for Talking about Silence / Strange Books Award 2006 for The Best Back Cover Text / I Don’t Care Award 2006 for Something We All Don’t Care / Happy Clowns Award 2006 for The Biggest Sad Smile / Nonexistence Award 2007 for Trying to Believe in Existence / MTV eBooks Award 2007 for The Best Male Reader / Bicycle Fans Award 2006 for not Writing About Bicycles / Cool Firemen Award 2006 for New Flames in Literature / Penguin Lovers Prize 2007 for Being Vegetarian / Green Grass Award 2006 for Frustrated Ecology in Hamlet Remixed / Vintage Love Award 2006 for Writing About Old School Love / New Letters Award 2006 for Some Useless Innovations / Retired Encyclopedists Award 2007 for Universality in Rewriting / Nice Web Developers Award 2007 for Fresh Look / Space Lovers Award 2006 for Exploration of Literary Cosmos / Monotony Award 2006 for The Best Performance / Homemade Video Award 2007 for The Best Home Interior / Illusory Zoo Committee Prize 2007 for The Best Animal Character / Degenerated Politicians Award 2006 for Belief in Moral Norms / F***ing Teenagers Award 2007 for The Best Kiss / Tomorrow Morning’s Fragrances Association Award 2006 for Smelling Words / London Punks Foundation Award 2007 for Ultra Cool Book with Hip Ending / Pessimistic Bankers Prize 2007 for Fresh Ideas on Pessimism / Soft-Hardcore Erotica Award 2006 for Remixed Feelings / Slow Talking Runners Award 2007 for Some Sweet Chats about Nothing / Honest Jet-Setters Prize 2006 for Being Honest to Honest People / Good Looking Pop Stars Award 2006 for The Best Interview Act / Disorientated Literary Agents Award 2006 for Trusting Nobody / Archaic Victorian Baroque Award 2007 for Crossing Borders Between Borders / Multicultural Context Prize 2006 for Multiculturalism in Books / Two Happy People Award 2007 for Mixed Palette of Happiness / Fragile Machines Prize 2007 for The Best Text on Robotic Psychology / Passionate Red Cherries Award 2006 for Dynamic Use of The Word “Cool” / Late 1950s Award 2007 for Neutrality on Some Remixed Questions / Classical Counterculture Award 2006 for Development of Remix Cult.

Longest Name of a Place

The place which has longest name is Bangkok with 163 letters. The official name and spelling of Bangkok is

Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthaya
mahadilokphopnopparatrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmaha
satharnamornphimarnavatarnsathitsakkattiyavisanukamprasit

Longest name of the state: The state with longest name is Rhode Island, the Ocean State in America. The official name of this state is The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. It has 45 letters. It is the smallest state.

Longest Name of A Country

Libya has the longest name with 63 letters. It is Al Jumahiriyah al Arabiyah al Libiyah ash Shabiyah al Ishtirakiyah al Uzma.

Longest Name Of An Animal

Soldier fly has the longest scientific name with 42 letters. It is Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides.

Longest Movie Title: The longest movie title is Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D. It has 41 words and 168 letters. This movie was released in 1991.

Longest Name of a Fish

Longnose butterflyfish has the longest name with 23 letters. It is lauwiliwilinukunukuoioi.

Longest Album Title

The second album by singer-songwriter Fiona Apple released by Epic Records in 1999 has the longest title with 355 letters.

The name of the album is When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He’ll Win the Whole Thing “Fore He Enters the Ring There”s No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won’t Matter, Cuz You’ll Know That You’re Right.

Longest Name of a Person

This credit goes to a German immigrant to Philadelphia, who has every letter of the alphabet represented in his name. His name is Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvim John Kenneth Loyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor Willian Xerxes Yancy Zeus.

Longest Name of a Hill

The hill which has longest name is near Porangahau in New Zealand with 92 letters. Its name is Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu.

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18 Comments

  1. IcyCucky
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:48 am

    This is really interesting, Valli.

  2. Anne Lyken-Garner
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:01 am

    Why on earth would parents want to give their child so many names.

  3. valli
    Posted February 26, 2008 at 6:59 am

    Thank you, Icy.

    Anne, I too wonder about it and anyways thanks for your comment.

  4. Dee Huff
    Posted February 28, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    I can’t help feeling for the book and the album that they must have set out to make a world record long name. Nobody could possibly remember it all when asking for either in a shop, could they?

  5. valli
    Posted February 29, 2008 at 2:56 am

    You are right,Dee. LOL.

  6. Alexa Gates
    Posted February 29, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    wow… these people have no life… Who can come up with all of these long names!

  7. RRF
    Posted April 8, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    I always thought the humuhumunukunukuapua’a was the longest fish name…
    Off by 2 I guess

  8. leena
    Posted May 8, 2008 at 2:44 am

    good man!! atleast they have an extra edge

  9. stray
    Posted August 1, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    lol the longest name has every letter in the alphabet

  10. anonymous
    Posted November 8, 2008 at 6:37 pm

    world’s longest name? thats pretty cool. My friend, her middle names are May Tootsie Elma Shana Laya Lollipop. and then there’s her first name and her last name… so she has the longest name of anyone that i actually know. :)

  11. Posted December 10, 2008 at 8:05 am

    That’s insane!!!!

  12. Cory Stuteville
    Posted March 1, 2009 at 10:38 am

    The name of Premonition’s album has 110 words and has the record for longest album title (18 words longer than Fiona Apple’s). Premonition’s album (2007) is called:
    Look into a crystal ball and see that its kind of like a fairy tale between the tides of time and the gates of dawn…as and as the dust and the ashes come falling down like rain, you can still hear the sound of music, forever drifting through the winds of Eden.

  13. cp3
    Posted March 24, 2009 at 10:44 pm

    these ppl have no life

  14. sheniah!
    Posted April 21, 2009 at 9:14 pm

    my great danes name is abracadabra shake n bake rosavette thunder zuce appolo!

  15. awesome4stuff
    Posted April 25, 2009 at 4:13 pm

    wow. that name is long. who would ever name a person that!!! I mean come on seriously. well if it calls for moms got to do what a mom’s got to do then okay.

  16. awesome4stuff
    Posted April 25, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    and by the way i did and also thought that the fish with the longest name is humuhumunukunukuapua’a

  17. #1_Twilight_Fan
    Posted April 29, 2009 at 10:13 pm

    Ha check out the book title, and the name, how does he remember that?!

  18. qwerty
    Posted May 18, 2009 at 8:06 am

    freaky names
    dont you think so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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