Wales
This horizontal card is a little bit hard to read, but it says:
The name was created up in the 1860s and is the longest village name in Great Britain and is pronounced (at least as the back of the card claims):
LLAN-FAIR-PWLL-GWYN-GYLL-GO-GER-YCH0BROB-WLL-LLAN-TY-SILIO-GO-GO-GOCH
Which, as the sender, my friend Bryony from Wales, accurately mentions...is pretty much useless unless you actually know Welsh! The name means: "Saint Mary's Church in a hollow of white hazel near the swirling whirlpool of the church of Saint Tysilio with a red cave"
Believe it or not, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch with it's 58 characters is not the longest single-word official place name in the world. That distinction goes to Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, which is the name of a hill in New Zealand in the Moari language. The word contains 97 characters and translates to "The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one"
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