Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkä
thumb|Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsi-baari in Salla, Finland. Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkä is a bog region in Savukoski, Lapland in Finland. Its name is 35 letters long and is the longest place name in Finland, and also the third longest, if names with spaces or hyphens are included, in Europe. It has also been the longest official place name in the European Union since 31 January 2020, when Brexit was completed, as the record was previously held by Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, a village in Wales, United Kingdom.
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thumb|Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsi-baari in Salla, Finland. Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkä is a bog region in Savukoski, Lapland in Finland. Its name is 35 letters long and is the longest place name in Finland, and also the third longest, if names with spaces or hyphens are included, in Europe. It has also been the longest official place name in the European Union since 31 January 2020, when Brexit was completed, as the record was previously held by Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, a village in Wales, United Kingdom.
==Placename and toponymy== thumb|Elevated storage facility, :en:Siida (museum)|Siida museum, Inari, Finland. thumb|The coat of arms of the municipality of Savukoski, Finland. According to Finnish linguist Taarna Valtonen, the name can be decomposed as:
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