In addition to being long, the town name of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, is plenty quirky, too. Formerly called Hot Springs, New Mexico, the town was re-named in 1950 as part of a publicity ...

The longest named town in the U.K. is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a ...

Dutton didn’t miss a beat, though, pronouncing the town’s 58-letter name like a pro. Clearly his 10 years reading the weather has helped, not to mention that he learned to speak Welsh as a kid.

> Longest city name: Russian Mission > Population: 410 Russian Mission, Alaska is a small town of just a few hundred people in the southwestern part of the state.

Llanfairpwll-gwyngyllgogerychwyrndrob-wllllantysiliogogogoch is actually the name of a town. Yes, it's 58 letters long, though you can also call it Llanfairpwll, or Llanfair PG for short.

Even if you can figure out how to pronounce this town's name, we bet you won't want to. At 58 letters long (or 53 letters, depending on whether you count the double-L as a single character as ...

The Welsh town of Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch has the longest name of any place in the UK and Channel 4 weatherman Liam Dutton nailed the pronunciation.

The longest official place name in the world, the 85-letter Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, is the name of a lovely little hill in New ...