The Most Mind-Boggling Lengths Around the World

Our world is always rocked by unusual phenomena.

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Bra

The Japanese company manufactured the longest bra in September, 1990. The bra has an under-burst measurement of 24m (78ft 8 in) and 28m (91ft 10in) for its bust measurement.

Tunnel


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The Seikan Tunnel (as shown above) between Japan's Honshu and Hokkaido Islands is currently considered as the world's longest tunnel with its measurement of 53, 850m in length. However, by 2010, with the opening of the tunnel called Gotthard Base in Switzerland, Seikan Tunnel will be placed the second as it is 3,222m shorter than the Gotthard Base (57,072m).

Coastline


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Canada has the longest coastline measured 152,100 miles in length. In contrary to Canada, the Monaco has the shortest coastline (3.5miles).

Wave


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The Araguari Pororoca in Amazon generates the longest wave on earth. Its tidal bore generates wave up to a maximum of 12ft high that lasts for over half an hour. Nevertheless, surfing through this world's longest wave is risky, frightening and dangerous. The Tupi-Guarani Indians themselves have once expressed their fear by calling it “poroc poroc”, or in English translates as “great destructive noise”. It is recorded that this wave is powerful enough to tear off the entire trees from the river bank, local houses and even it can destroy living things on earth. The wave can be heard 30 minutes before its arrival. Though it is notorious for its frightening and dangerous tidal phenomenon, it still tempts the surfers to ride on it as its massive wave lets them to stay on their boards for a relatively long hour.

Moustache


Photo credit: Rajesh Rajan, UMS, Muscat, Oman

Mohammed Rashid is a Turkish who has an incredibly long moustache measured 1.6m (5ft 3in ) long. He is currently considered as the man with the longest moustacle in the world. In Turkey, the moustache symbolises one's personality as its saying goes, “You can always tell a man's connection with its moustache.”

Snake


Photo credit: Stephen J Fleay

This is a python found living in a tourism park in central Java which was the longest and heaviest snake ever capture in Indonesia in 2004. Its weight was 447kg while its length was 14.85m. More details on long snake, please read here.

Places

El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciúncula


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This is the earlier name given to LA (Los Angeles), the North America's second largest city when its first settlement was established in 1781. It translates in English as “The Town of Our Lady the Queen of Angels of the Little Portion.” Officially, this 55-letter place name was later named as “El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles.”

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikim- aungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu


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This is a Maori name for a hill, 305m high, near Porangahau, Hawkes Bay, found in New Zealand which has officially entered the Guinness Book of Records. This 85-letter-long place name is a combination of the words taumata (brow of a hill), whakatangihanga (music making), koauau (flute), o (of), tamatea (name of a famous chief), turi pukaka (bony knees), piki maunga (climbing a mountain), horo (slip), nuku (move), pokai whenua (widely travelled), ki (to), tana (his), tahu (beloved). Therefore, it means: the summit of the hill, where Tamatea, the man with the big knees who slid down, climbed up and swallowed mountains, known as land eater, played on his flute to his loved one. Nowadays, it has been abbreviated to Taumata. Visitors climb the hill with their four-wheel-drive vehicles and they are tempted to the Duke of Edinburg Hotel to buy a “Collectors' Longest Place Name Bottle of Hawkes Bay Chardonnay or Cab Merlot.”

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogo- gogoch


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This is a 58-letter-name that is given to a town in North Wales which is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. In English it means "Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of Saint Tysilio near the red cave." The local pronounce it as “thlan vire puth” and called it as “Llanfairpwll.” According to Wales resources, this world-famous station and village was created by a local humorist in the early of 19th century. It is said that the station of Llanfairpwll or L56h was first opened on Anglesey Island in 1848 and closed for twenty years (1973 - 1993). Later, it was re-opened in 1994.

Chargogagogmanchargogagogcharbunagungamog

This is a name given to a town in Wales. It means: the Mawddach station and its dragon teeth at the Northern Penrhyn Road on the golden beach of Cardigan bay.

Gorsafawddachaidraigodanheddogleddolonpenrhynareurdr-aethceredigion

This is the longest name found in the United States, and it is given to name Lake Webster in Massachusetts. Alternatively, it could be spelled as Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchabunagungamaugg, Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamogg, and Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamogg.

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Comments (8)
#1 by Balzac
Aug 24, 2008
Thank you for the tour.
#2 by Claris
Aug 24, 2008
nice article, thanks for sharing
#3 by IcyCucky
Aug 24, 2008
This will be another hot hit, Chan! Very informative..
#4 by Lauren Axelrod
Aug 24, 2008
Interesting. Good article
#5 by nobert soloria bermosa
Aug 24, 2008
that was really long,thanks
#6 by Judy Sheldon
Aug 24, 2008
Fascinating article. You must have went to long lengths to create it. lol
#7 by Alexa Gatesq
Aug 24, 2008
very interesting!
#8 by Lostash
Aug 26, 2008
Aren't names great!
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