The Kingdom of Thailand is located in the very center of Southeast Asia and resembles an elephant's head in shape, and its area is comparable to the territory of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.

Great Siam, never conquered in its 7 century history, in 1932 changed the absolute monarchy to a constitutional one, and soon changed its name: the Thai word "Tay"(which means "free") amalgamated with the English word "Land"(translated as "land") and Thailand appeared - land of the free.

The longest name of the capital city in the world

The capital of the kingdom is Bangkok, the 17th largest city in Asia, in which, like in the resorts of the kingdom, it is always warm, the temperature does not drop below 22 degrees. Even during the rainy season, Bangkok is bathed in sunshine, and the showers here pass as quickly as they begin. Even 100 years ago, having visited Bangkok, travelers told that they saw the Venice of the East, and today Bangkok and its attractions are more like New York with the same skyscrapers, traffic jams and noisy streets.

Here you can meet people of any nationality, but the most smiling of all are Thais: it is not for nothing that Thailand is called the land of smiles in the world.

Bangkok is a huge city, which today is home to almost 15 million people ( as of 2012). But the Thais themselves do not call it Bangkok, for them it is Krung Thep, which means "City of Angels" in Thai. The name of the capital of Thailand is entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest name of the capital of the state in the world and consists of 30 words. Any Thai on the street without hesitation will pronounce the full name of his City of Angels (they begin to learn it along with the alphabet in the first grade of the school - approx.web):

Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintarayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Nopparat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchanivet Mahasatan Amon Piman Avatan Satit Sakkhathattiya Vitsanukam Prasit.

And it translates as follows:

Capital of angels, great city, immortal divine jewel and fortress, great land that cannot be conquered, great and prosperous kingdom, magnificent and wonderful capital of nine precious stones, the place where the greatest rulers live and is located Grand Palace, the abode of the gods, the magnificent creation of the god Vishnu.

Royal altars with photographs of the monarch and his family are everywhere. Nobody forces Thais to worship them, it comes from sincere love. For insulting the king, you can go to jail, but this would never occur to anyone. Rama IX is a role model who has earned the honor and respect of the people for its long life.

The Thais have turned their City of Angels into a modern capital, building new districts with huge shopping malls, expensive shops, luxury hotels on the top floors of skyscrapers, restaurants, of which there are thousands, and endless markets.

Absolutely everything is sold on the streets of Bangkok: clothes, souvenirs, jewelry. Moreover, trade here is in full swing both day and night, striking Europeans with penny prices. Especially cheap on such ruins are things of famous designer brands, sewn by Thai craftswomen according to their own patterns.

By the way, Thais love to bargain, and even if there is a price tag on the product, this does not mean at all that this is exactly how much you need to pay for it.

What the capital of Thailand used to be

Bangkok was once called the Venice of the East. 200 years ago, travelers who came here from Europe saw a luxurious city built on water, where beautiful temples and palaces were located along the streets. Bangkok was built according to the scheme of the former capital of Thailand - the city of Ayuttaya, that is, on the water. King Rama V, when he chose a place for the new capital, ordered to dig canals here. However, at the end of the 19th century, the kings of Thailand began to travel to Europe, saw that self-propelled carriages were in vogue and began to fill the Bangkok canals with earth to build roads.

What is left of the Venice of the East today is a few poor neighborhoods with shacks. Perhaps someday they will also be covered with earth, but in the meantime, tourists are brought here to show what the capital of Thailand and the sights of Bangkok used to be like. Many shacks attached next to other people's houses do not even have a postal address, but there are also old mansions with lush gardens, in which the intelligentsia of Bangkok lived from generation to generation. There are many monitor lizards and fish in the canals. And until now, these canals serve not only as streets, but also as a water supply system and even a sewage system.

Thai cuisine

Gourmets all over the world discovered Thai cuisine just 20-30 years ago. The culinary art of Thailand owes a lot to China and India - the food is just as spicy and cooked mainly over an open fire, but the spices and seasonings distinguish Thai cuisine. Thais love to mix things that cannot be mixed by a European: sweet with salty or bitter, spicy and sour, fish and meat. You can love it, but not right away.

School of Thai cuisine "Amita" is a legendary place and probably the only one of its kind, because here you can really learn how to cook several Thai dishes and, most importantly, remember how it is done. Here you will be taught how to cook four dishes that can change the European perception of Thai cuisine for the better: hot, cold appetizer, side dish and salad for dessert. The hardest part is, of course, the hotter - chicken curry in coconut milk. First, they show you the whole cooking process, explaining what and in what order to put, which ingredients can be changed to taste, for example, the amount of hot curry, green peppers and beans, and which are not - coconut milk, fish sauce and cane sugar. After cooking, you can taste it all, and then cook it yourself. The lesson will cost you 3000 baht (about 3000 rubles).

A lot of food is sold on the streets of the capital. Rolling trolleys are always equipped with cooking zones. Thais love hot food, eating up to 6 meals a day. During a meal, it is completely pointless to distract them, because food is the main thing in the life of a Thai, because it is during a meal that communication takes place. Most often, Thai food looks extremely unappetizing to our foreign eyes, but contrary to popular belief, Thais eat not only grasshoppers, crickets and other insects, although this is true. Thai cuisine is exquisite, of course not on street stalls, but more on that below.

"Ancient city"

One of the attractions of Thailand, located 45 km from Bangkok, is Muang Boran Park, which means “ Ancient city". On an area of ​​350 hectares, the Thais have recreated 116 of their most revered and famous architectural monuments, created in the Kingdom of Siam over the past 800 years. Palaces and temples are made on a scale of 1: 2

The ancient city is attractive because having visited it, you can get an idea of ​​the architecture of the whole country. The territory of the park is huge, so it is better to move around it on an electric car - this way you can see more. The cost of a tour by electric car is 1400 baht, and by a shared tram - 300.

Floating market

80 km from the capital is the largest floating market in Thailand "Kanonam kun tunkin", which translates from Thai as "flower market", because once along the coast there were not trade rows, but flower fields. Here you can buy anything you want and very cheap, from fruits and vegetables to home furnishings.

Be sure to watch your hands so as not to pinch your fingers with neighboring boats.

The market wakes up at 6 in the morning and the fishmongers are the first to appear on the canals, and by 10 they are no longer here - perishable goods give way to vegetables, fruits, souvenirs, clothes and all sorts of things that are attractive to tourists and useless for the Thais themselves)

Locals come here mainly for food and sometimes for hats, which are here for every taste: Vietnamese, Thai, colonial era.

Tourists are always delighted with the floating market: drinking coconut milk while sitting in a boat is a rare pleasure, and taking a boat costs only 100 baht per hour. There is no need for a guide in the market, and his main rule is very simple - bargain. And to the last, because the price can be dropped even 5 times, because for tourists it is specially overstated. When buying fruit, bargaining is not accepted. Food, fruits, vegetables here are mainly bought by local Thais and all this is really very cheap, especially what seems exotic to us and is not sold in Russia!

Bangkok from the ship

Only from the water can you see how Bangkok really lives. You can sail on a boat past the shacks that have remained here since the mid-50s of the twentieth century, in front of which there are modern 50-storey skyscrapers with a completely different life. Walking along the canals of Bangkok for tourists is akin to exotic: there are very few blocks on the water left, and if they used to be the center of the city, now they are considered the outskirts.

The City of Angels is one of those who do not sleep at night, until 12 at night you can shop, listen to music in street bars, and whoever wants something special should see Bangkok at night from the ship. The pleasure steamers are always filled to capacity - this is much more interesting than going to a regular restaurant, especially in crowded places of tourists, including large shopping centers, in hotels and even in theaters, dinner is no less important than the performance. Thais do not impose their food at all - the buffet consists of Thai, European, Indian and Japanese cuisine, which is especially loved by tourists from Russia.

Only from a cruise boat at dawn at 6 am or after sunset (in Bangkok it sets at 6 pm all year round), you can see the temple of Wat Arun in this glory - the temple of dawn. Its stupa is still the tallest in Thailand - almost 80 meters. The tiers of Wat Arun symbolize the plurality of worlds, in the existence of which the Thais certainly believe, and these worlds, apparently, are more beautiful than even the magnificent creation of the god Vishnu - the City of Angels, known to us as Bangkok.

If some cities have strange and sometimes very funny names, then we'll talk about others. Before you pronounce the names of the following cities, you need to draw as much air as possible into your lungs. And some of them can hardly be pronounced in one breath.

So here are the next top 5 longest titles. And we'll start in descending order.

This is the name of a city located in the north of Scotland. It can be translated as follows "The Church of St. Mary, located in a hazel grove, near the rapid whirlpool near the red cave." Logical and easy, right?

This is not a city, but a lake. However, we decided to include it on our list. It is located in the United States. This name can be translated as "Englishman fishing, near the border with Manchaug"

3rd place - United Townships of Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Eyre and Clyde

This small town that stands out for its name is located in Canada. It seems that the officials were never able to decide on its final name, and it remained in the discussion phase.

This city with a wonderful name is located in New Zealand. In the Maori language, we can translate it as "The place where Tamatea, a man with big knees, who slid, then climbed and swallowed mountains, eater of earth, played here the flute for his beloved." It sounds more like a short story than a city name.

1st place - Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit

This is the unimaginable long name of a city in Thailand. We translate it very simply - Bangkok!

Each huge metropolis and small village has its own unique name history. Some settlements were named after famous people who contributed to the development of that area. Others are named after the picturesque nature of the region. But there are the longest names of places in the world, which cannot be pronounced the first time.

Russian record holders

In Russia, there are several settlements with long names. These are mainly villages and settlements located in the northern part of the territory of the Russian Federation. The longest city name in Russia is Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, located on the island of Sakhalin. This city has the very letters in its name, but at the same time its population is extremely small (no more than ten thousand people).

Initially, there was a military post in its place. Later the city became a place of exile for dangerous criminals. Until 1926, the city with the longest name was called the Alexander Post (it was so named in honor of one of the Russian emperors). After that, the city was designated the administrative center of the Sakhalin region, therefore it was renamed into Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky. The original name of the settlement was preserved in this name, and an indication of its location was added.

Longest city name in England

Llanwire Pullgwingill is known all over the world. Many locals love to arrange disputes with visiting tourists about the fact that travelers will not be able to clearly and correctly pronounce its name entirely at once due to the specifics of the local language. Llanwire Pullgwingill is located in Wells, UK. Anyone who manages to pronounce the longest name of the city without hesitation can be safely received as an announcer on television.

But this area also has an unofficial, longer name - Llanweirpullguingillgogerihuirndrobulllantisiliogogogh. The name itself can be translated from Welsh (the native language of local residents) as "Church of the Holy Mary in the vicinity of the mighty hazel near the great whirlpool and the church of the sacred Tisilio near the bloody cave." Also, this place is famous for the fact that the sign at the only railway station is the most famous and visited place in the country.

The longest city name in the world

Bangkok is considered the record holder for the number of letters in its name (the city is even marked in the Guinness Book of Records). And immediately such a version may seem implausible, because the word "Bangkok" has only seven letters. But this is only an abbreviated version, which is adopted for the convenience of pronunciation. The longest name of the city is: Krun Thep Mahanakhon Amon Ratanakosin Mahintarayuthaya Mahadlok Phop Noparat Ratchatani Burirom Udomratchanive Mahasatan Amon Piman Avata Sati Sakathattiya Vitsanukam Prasit.

And it can be translated from the local language something like this: “The city of heavenly angels, a majestic city, a settlement - an eternal diamond, an indestructible settlement of the majestic god Indra, a great capital in the whole world, which was endowed with nine beautiful precious stones, the happiest city full of all kinds of benefits, the unique Royal The palace, which is a divine cradle, where the reborn almighty god sits, the city received by people from the great Indra and erected by the inviolable Vishnukarn. " But it is difficult to accurately interpret the meaning of the words in the name of this capital, since many words are outdated, and at the moment are not used by modern Thais.

Los Angeles

Immediately behind these champions is another city, which everyone is used to calling by a shorter name. It is located in the United States of America and is better known as Los Angeles. Although the longest name of the city is pronounced like this: El Pueblo De Nustra Senora La Reina De Los Angeles De La Porcincula.

This means "The settlement of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, Queen of Heavenly Angels, on the Porsyunkula River." Initially, this name was given to a small village, but in 1820 the area expanded, becoming a small town in the state of California. At the moment, the city is the largest in terms of population in the state and the second in the country.

Santa fe

Following Los Angeles is another American city - Santa Fe. As in the previous cases, this is just a familiar abbreviated name. The real name is pronounced like this: Willa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asis. The settlement is located in the state of New Mexico. Its unusual name can be translated as follows: "The Royal City of the Sacred Faith of St. Francis of Assisi". Previously, several villages were located in its place. After several unsuccessful attempts to conquer these lands, a fairly large provincial town was located here.

History in city names

The history of various cities is quite interesting, but their unusual, intriguing names are even more interesting. Such facts easily attract curious tourists from all over the world. Of course, despite the fact that the craving for travel appeared a long time ago, such names were not given in order to attract someone. They were given in honor of holy martyrs, famous personalities, royalty and other famous people and characters.

But the fact remains, they have survived to this day, and now many are trying to get to know these cities more deeply, to understand why such a name was given. This is quite a fun and amazing process that anyone can join.

In the world there are a great many long, strange, sometimes even incomprehensible names of villages and cities, rivers and lakes, mountains and plains, and just names. All these names are generated by the human mind and fantasy, the limits of which, as you know, do not exist. As an example of a flight of fantasy and imagination, consider the names of some cities in the world and in Russia.

In the world

On the east coast of the Chao Phrai River, near its mouth, there is one of the largest cities in Thailand with a population of five million. This is the capital of Thailand, the city of Bangkok. However, the real name of this city sounds a little different - Krung-Tep, or the City of Angels.

This name of the city, in terms of its length, is not impressive. The thing is that we use a more concise and easy-to-pronounce name. The historical name of Bangkok is completely different. In its native language, it consists of 30 words and in translation it sounds like this: “City of Angels, inaccessible and greatest, which is the residence of the emerald Buddha, the greatest of the capitals of the world, blessed with 9 century stones, decorated with majestic royal palaces, as beautiful as a heavenly place ruled by the confidant of God, the city given by Indra and rebuilt by Vissanukam. "

Once upon a time, Bangkok was called the Venice of the East. This name was given to the city by ancient travelers who visited it about two hundred years ago. The name was not chosen by chance, the city at that time stood on the coast of the river, literally in the water. Soon, King Ram V ordered the digging of drainage channels. This is how “watery” streets appeared, making it look like Venice.

In the 19th century, these canals were covered with earth and turned into roads. The motive for such changes was the fashion for self-propelled carriages, which dominated in those days in Europe. The fashion was adopted by the Thai kings, who had the opportunity to visit this country and see, and then adopt, a fashionable innovation.

To this day, only a few quarters have survived from the Venice of the East, most of which are inhabited by the poor, living literally in shacks. Many of the shacks are extensions to other houses and do not even have their own postal address. However, here you can still see the mansions, surrounded by lush gardens, in which the descendants of noble people still live. The streets of the quarter are represented by canals, as they were many years ago. They still serve as a water supply system and even a sewerage system. This ancient part of Bangkok is now of historical and cultural value and is included in tourist routes.

Modern Bangkok is a successfully developing city with a population of about 9 million people. Every year, thousands of tourists arrive at Bangkok's two major airports, Suvarnabhumi and Don Muang, who want to experience its sights. Bangkok is growing and developing rapidly, becoming a modern metropolis, but it manages to preserve traditional Asian culture. The city is rich in museums, old and newly erected Buddha temples.

In Russia

Russia is also rich in cities with long names. Moreover, in our country there are long names of cities, consisting of the same number of letters and even words, so it is almost impossible to choose a record holder for the length of a city name. It would be more appropriate to compare the lengths of names not of cities or villages, but of settlements.

The record-breaking long name belongs to a small village located in the Zaraysky District of the Moscow Region. This is about Central estate of the state farm named after the 40th anniversary of the Great October Revolution... The settlement is part of the Mashonovsky rural settlement. Now it is home to about 1,000 people.

It appeared in 1933 and was the central estate of a state farm engaged in pig breeding. At that time it bore the name of Kaganovich, but in 1957 it was renamed. Nowadays, the village has a secondary school, a House of Culture, a kindergarten, a post office, a library and an outpatient clinic, but the pig farm no longer exists there.

The longest name of the settlement consists of 27 characters and belongs to the village of Kremenchug-Konstantinovskoe. The village is located in Kabardino-Balkaria. Founded in 1885 by the so-called settlers, originally from the Kremenchug province. They went to the Caucasus in search of better living conditions. In the town of Kabarda, from a local prince named Inalov, they rented land, on which they subsequently settled. The new settlers settled in separate farmsteads, giving each a name derived from the name of the place from which they came. These names have stuck and still exist, now as the names of the areas of the village.

The modern name, Kremenchug-Konstantinovskoe, appeared after the farms were united into a single settlement. Its name was based on the name of the farm of the first settlers - Kremenchug and the name of the settler founder - Constantine. Local residents have an unofficial short name for the village, Krem-Konstantinovka, or even shorter - Kremka.

There are two more villages in Russia with record-long names. These are Verkhnenovokutlumbetyevo, which is in the Orenburg region and Starokozmodemyanovskoe, located in the Tambov region. The names of these villages have exactly 23 letters and there is no hyphen.

The World's Longest Word June 21st, 2017

The longest official name is a 305 meter high hill located in New Zealand.

Mamihlapinatapai (sometimes written mamihlapinatapei) is a word from the language of the Yagan tribe (Tierra del Fuego). It is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the "most concise word" and considered one of the most difficult words to translate.

Mamihlapinatapai means " A look between two people, which expresses the desire of each that the other will initiate what both want, but neither wants to be the first».

But what the longest word in the world?

The full chemical name for the largest protein contains 189,819 letters and is considered the longest word in any language.

Titin, also known as connectin, is a giant protein made up of 244 individually folded protein regions connected by an unstructured sequence of peptides.

In addition, the titin gene contains the largest number of exons, 363, found in one gene.

Titin plays an important role in the contraction of striated muscle tissue, but it is best known for its technical name, which is considered the longest word in any language in the world.

The name "titin" is borrowed from the Greek word "titan" (giant deity, something of a large size). The chemical name starts with methionyl ... and ends with ... isoleucine.

The full name of the largest protein would take up a lot of space in this post, but you

If you really want to hear what the longest word in the world sounds like, you can watch the video, which takes almost 3.5 hours to fully pronounce the name.

It is interesting that you will not even see the full chemical name of titin in dictionaries, since the compilers of dictionaries consider the names of chemical compounds to be a verbal formula, and not a word. But no matter how you call it: a word, a formula or a whole story, it is extremely long.

The longest word in the Russian language has not yet been determined for a number of reasons. Theoretically, one of these words can be the adjectiveahydropyridopyridine, consisting of 55 letters. But will such a choice of the winner be fair, because in analytical, say, chemistry, the names of substances can be built according to a certain scheme and sometimes reach downright cosmic values.

Also, a frequently cited example is the construction of a word by adding the prefix pra-. Its number can be unlimited, therefore, there will be plenty of letters in such a word.

Various words are also popular, containing a numeral and denoting any value - one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine centimeters, or built on the type of eighty-four. To indicate the age of, for example, Earth. So there are countless opportunities for word creation. You can combine options for a long time, because, as we know, there are a lot of natural numbers. That is, you can ask yourself about the expression of the Earth's diameter in millimeters, and you can only imagine how many letters there will be in this newborn word. In view of this, the task of finding the longest word in the Russian language, alas, will not be crowned with success. Moreover, most of these words seem almost a monster to the layman, and are not used at all in ordinary speech. Is that on a local scale. That is, it is quite possible to find the longest word among the parts of speech, for example, verbs or nouns.

Some difficulties are created by the lack of agreement on whether different word forms can be used. So, for example, in the Guinness Book of Records in 1993, the longest word was the word X-ray electrocardiographic (33 letters), in the 2003 edition - exceedingly discerning (35 letters). In the first case, the analogue of the word could also be used - ente(42 letters). Disputes arose, naturally, due to the fact that, as we can see, in the first case the word was used in the genitive case, and in the second version of the spelling, for example, in the same case, it would be longer by a letter. In general, the words-record holders have not been honored to be recognized, because the information is rather subjective and cannot be confirmed.

How do you like this longest abbreviation? (56 characters)

NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBORMONHKO H-OTDTECHSTROMONT

Research laboratory of operations for concrete reinforcement and reinforced concrete works for the construction of prefabricated monolithic and monolithic structures of the technology department of the construction and installation department of the Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the USSR. That is, you can imagine how the employees of this organization answered the question about work.

Now let's talk about the best of its kind.

Longest hyphenated adjective: agricultural engineering (38 letters).
The longest nouns with a hyphen are: grubber-bulldozer-loader and animate-inanimate (31 letters).
The longest noun without a hyphen: water mud therapy, paraffin therapy (29 letters).
Longest adjective without a hyphen: Electrophotosemiconductor (28 letters). These data are kindly provided by the spelling dictionary of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The grammar dictionary by A.A. Zaliznyak, published in 2003, believes that: the longest (in letters) common noun in the dictionary form is the adjective private business (25 letters; word forms in -s and -ims - 26 letters).

The longest verbs are to be reexamined, substantialized and internationalized. (All - 24 letters; the participles formed from them with the ending -ending and the gerunds starting with -25 letters each). From the first time I could not even immediately imagine the meaning of the second word ...

The longest nouns are misanthropy and superiority (24 letters each; word forms in -ami - 26 letters each)
The longest animate nouns are the eleventh grader (20 letters) and the clerk (21 letters), word forms in -ami - 22 and 23 letters, respectively.

The longest adverb recorded by the dictionary is unsatisfactory (19 letters). Do not forget that from the overwhelming majority of qualitative adjectives in -y and -s, adverbs in -o, -e or -i are formed, which are not always fixed by the dictionary.

The longest interjection included in the dictionary is a slightly gross hi-hi (14 letters).

The word, respectively (14 letters) is at the same time the longest preposition. The longest particle is only one letter shorter.

But in addition to long, little-known and highly specialized words, there are also champions in literature, for example, the word for the discerning, which Nikolai Leskov used in the story "Rabbit Shack." ... But, probably, everyone can imagine its meaning for himself.

Our language hides many more interesting things, and I think the number of record-breaking words does not in any way affect the power and beauty of our Russian speech. Gathering information for this article, I learned an incredible many interesting things. And for some reason I remembered that at the age of seven I thought that the word electrosynthrophasotron was, well, the longest, and Staroportofrankovskaya Street was generally something of a fantasy. Beliefs change ... And most importantly, language is not something static, and is replenished with neologisms every day; he lives, is reborn, and it is not known how long the word champion can become. Although, judging by the current desire of the young to shorten the word beyond recognition, it is not yet known who will win ...

And when I was studying at the institute, in our group there was a student who considered his last name to be the longest in Russia - Skorobogatko - 13 letters, who has more?