Toponymy
85 Letters
Taumatawhakatangihanga...
Located in southern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, this 305-meter hill holds the Guinness World Record for the longest official place name in an English-speaking realm.
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Record-Holding Spans, Names & Formations
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Toponymy
85 Letters
Engineering Feat
164.8 km / 102.4 mi
Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge
Carrying the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway across the Yangtze River Delta, this monolithic viaduct spans over 100 miles of open wetlands, lakes, and rice paddies.
Coastal Geography
254 km / 158 mi
Praia do Cassino Beach
Stretching from Rio Grande in Brazil all the way to the border of Uruguay, this uninterrupted strip of white sea sand forms the world's longest unbroken beachline.
Transit Corridor
9,289 km / 5,772 mi
The Trans-Siberian Railway
Traversing 8 time zones and two continents, the legendary rail ribbon connects Moscow to Vladivostok in a single unbroken steel arterial track built over 25 arduous years.
Subterranean Transit
57.1 km / 35.5 mi
Gotthard Base Tunnel
Boring beneath 2,300 meters of the Swiss Alps, this dual single-track railway tube is the world's longest and deepest subterranean transit passage, revolutionizing trans-European logistics.
Aviation Corridor
15,348 km / 9,537 mi
Singapore to New York (SIN–JFK)
Traversing polar paths and oceanic airspaces for over 18 hours and 40 minutes non-stop, flight SQ24/SQ23 holds the official record for the world's longest commercial scheduled non-stop air route.