What train station has the longest name in the UK?
At 58 letters, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is officially the longest train station name in the UK. In fact, it's the longest place name in Europe, and only second in the world to an 85-letter town name in New Zealand.
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TAKE a deep breath and say it with me: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. No, I didn't just drop something on the keyboard, that is the actual name of a train station in Anglesey, serving the village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll.
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The longest English word is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is forty-five letters long and refers to a type of lung disease. If you're including technical words, the longest English word— and longest word in the world—is this word, a chemical name for a protein that is 189,819 letters long.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (llan-vire-pooll-gwin-gill-gore-ger-ih-queern-drorb-ooll-llandy-silio-gore-gore-goch), usually shortened to Llanfair-pwll or Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, is a Welsh word that translates roughly as St Mary's Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel near a Rapid ...