Bangkok, capital of Thailand
Bangkok’s official name has 168 letters. The abbreviation is a little shorter, only 111: krungthephphr amahanak honbowonratanakosi nmahinthara yuthayamah adilokphiph obnovphara draftchata niburiro mudomsantisug. Already the shortest name has only one: Y, the “place of death” in France.
The very long names are nothing unusual in the Thai language.
But the capital of the country exaggerates: its official name, which holds the “longest name of the world”, has no less than 168 Letters:
krungthepmaha nakhonamonrattanak osinmahintharaa yuthayamahad ilokphopnoppha ratratchathaniburiromu domratchaniwetma hasathanamonpiman awatansathitsakkath attiyawitsanukamprasit.
Even so, without capital letters – which do not exist in the Thai language. But without spaces, we have to add so that the word does not extract its screen.
Naturally, this name is unpronounceable, and the city has a shorter abbreviation – with just 111 characters: Krungthephphramahanak honbowonratanakosi nmaahintharayuthayamah adilokPhiphobnovphara dradchataniburiro mudomsantisugug.
But this name is still a little Large to use in certain situations, such as official documents or car enrollment, says the.
Thus, in 2022 the Thai government announced that it is acceptable that those who use the Roman alphabet refers to the capital as stole – or simply, Bangkok. Only seven letters (eleven, if we want to use the term in Portuguese, Bangkok).
The city’s official name originates from the Sacred Pali and Sanskrit languages, used in Buddhist and Hindus texts, and translates into “The city of the gods, the great city, the residence of the Emerald Buddha, the unfagarable city of Ayutthaya of the God Indra, the great capital of the world with nine precious gems, the abundant city abundant in huge real palaces that resemble the heavenly dwelling, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarm“.
The short version of the abbreviated name of the city, bundlemeans “Great City of Angels”In Thai – and, according to some interpretations, the term Bangkok dates back to the time the city, before being, was known as the Village or District (Bang) of wild plums (makok).
Of course, we cannot end this subject without leaving the video of a well -known 1980s musical success, by Murray Head: “One Night in Krungthehramahanahanahanahanahanaanak Honbowonrateanakosi NmahinThanauthayamah AdilokPhiphoBnovphaphavoboBurna DradanianIno Mudomsantisug.
The place of death is the shortest name
Several locations share the title of “city with the shortest name in the world”, and they will hardly ever lose this title: their name has Only one letter.
According to, there are examples of locations with names of only one letter in various countries around the world, including in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Apparently, unlike Thai, who has a drop for large names, Slavic languages are better with them small.
One of these locations is the village of Y, in France – That, to live up to the size of the name, is a tiny community with 90 inhabitants in the Somme district in the north of the country.
The name of the locality originates in the Y -shaped configuration of its main street (yes, the village has four more streets and a platter).
Normally, a small, strange village like this would be almost unnoticed, but, explains, due to a technical error, Y ended up drawing the attention of several genealogy enthusiasts in the late 2000s.
By tracking ancestors to the places of their death in the popular genealogy site, All paths seemed to take to y – or at least in the case of an unusual amount of them.
It seemed that the number of people who were supposed to have died there It was gigantic compared to the number of people who really had lived there.
How So many people from all over the world Did they find their ancestors in the small French commune?
The mystery was resolved When a user noticed that in the form used on the site to add new ancestors, all fields had to be filled.
The user deduced that the less attentive genealogists could not know the “place of death” of their ancestors, and, in the face of the obligation to have to put something in the field, They added only an “x” or “y”.
Now, in the case of Y, the site found in the localities database a perfect correspondence: “Y, somme, picardie, france.”
“The mystery of Y” was thus deciphered, the site corrected the failure, the users cleaned their databases – and the small village of Y was free from their morbid nickname “The place of death“.
