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Top 5 Longest Place Names In The U.S.

Can you say Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (pronounced Char-gog-a-gog-man-chug-a-gog-chu-bun-a-gung-a-mahg)? It's a Native American name for a Massachusetts lake. It means, "You fish on your side; I'll fish on mine; no one fishes in the middle." The biggest mouthfuls on the map:

1. El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de la Porciuncula, California

2. Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, Massachusetts

3. La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asis, New Mexico

4. Nunathloogagamiutbingoi Dunes, Alaska

5. Winchester on the Severn, Maryland

Source: The Top 10 of Everything 1998, by Russell Ash (DK Publishing, Inc.)

  April 24, 1998 Vol.3 No.24


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