No country has a 58-letter name, but a village in Wales (part of the United Kingdom), called Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, has a 58-letter place name, used as a famous tourist attraction. While it's the longest place name in Europe and the UK, it's actually only 51 letters in Welsh, as some letter combinations count as single letters.
Literally translated, the long form of the name means: "[The] church of [St.] Mary (Llanfair) [of the] pool (pwll) of the white hazels (gwyn gyll) near to [lit. "over against"] (go ger) the fierce whirlpool (y chwyrn drobwll) [and] the church of [St.] Tysilio (Llantysilio) of the red cave (gogo[f] goch)".
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Originally the town had a shorter, easier to pronounce name: Llanfairpwllgwyngyll. In the 1880s, in a joking attempt to attract tourists, a tailor added the rest of the syllables, bringing the total length to 58 letters, including four letter L's in a row.
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