The longest African country name is Democratic Republic of the Congo at 28 letters.
Answer and Explanation: The longest English country name belongs to the United Kingdom, or The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with 56 characters.
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH, WALES. This village on the Ynys Môn island off the north-west coast of Wales has 58 letters. It is the place with the second-longest name in the world.
The longest personal name is 747 characters long, and belongs to Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (b.
There is a ten-way tie for the shortest name of a country. Ten countries have names with only four letters. The countries with the shortest names are: Chad, Cuba, Fiji, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Mali, Oman, Peru, and Togo.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (Llanfair PG for short) is a small, quiet town on the island of Anglesey off the northwest coast of North Wales, famous for having the longest place name in Europe. Apart from its name, it is similar to other nearby villages.
According to Guinness World Records, the longest word in the world is in Sanskrit. And it is 195 characters long.
The following are countries starting with Z: Zambia. Zimbabwe.
Drum roll, please: Turns out, no countries in the world start with the letters W or X. (By the way, almost every country in the world is named after these four things.) Some might be quick to point out that Wales, which is considered a country, starts with the letter W.
Wang is a patronymic (ancestral) name that means “king” in Mandarin, and it's shared by more than 92 million people in China, making it the most popular last name in the world.
According to 'The Teutonic Name-system, Applied to the Family Names of France, England and Germany' by Robert Ferguson — January 1, 1864, the oldest surname on record is HATT. There is a document quoted from the MSS.
The royal title of Prince Philip, the husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, is as long as 133 words. Some of the titles and honours have been earned by the Prince, while some were gifted to him and other titles are a combination of the two.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the name of the 3,000-resident village in the southeast of the island. Translated into English it means: The Church of Mary in the Hollow of the White Hazel near the Fierce Whirlpool and the Church of Tysilio by the Red Cave.
But if you visit the North Island of New Zealand, there's one word that no local will give you a hard time about mispronouncing. In fact, they often shorten it themselves. Ready? It's Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
According to the report, the Netherlands is still the world's tallest nation with the average height in the country for men 183.78 cm, or 6 foot, and 170.36 cm, or 5 foot 7 inches for women.
1. Timor-Leste — 155.47cm (5 feet 1.28 inches) People on the Southeast Asian island of Timor are an average 155.47cm (5 feet 1.28 inches) tall. The average Timorese man is 159.79cm (5 feet 2.90 inches) tall.
The United Kingdom Has Quite A Long Formal Name
The formal country name for the United Kingdom is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The UK is currently the country with the longest name in the world. Technically speaking, the UK is a nation-state.
Oldest Female Name in History
Per Oldest.org, Neithhotep is the earliest named woman in history. A queen consort of Pharoah Narmer in Ancient Egypt, Neithhotep had her name recorded between circa 3150 and 3125 BCE.
Nick Stoeberl from Salinas, California, USA has the world's longest tongue (male) measuring 10.1 cm (3.97 in). According to the records site, it's so long that it can hold five ring doughnuts! “I've always sort of known I've had a long tongue, just like you would know if your hand was bigger.
Biblical accounts
And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.