2642: The Village of Å: Places with Only One Letter Mar 12, 2022

A town in Wales changed its name to have the longest place-name in Europe , but there are many places vying for the spot as the shortest. The French township of Y, over a dozen villages across Norway and Sweden each called Å meaning 'brook', as well as Ö in Sweden meaning 'island'. There are a number of other place names or names of geographic features, especially rivers, with only one letter, each of which is a vowel, though none of these are major settlements and one does have to stretch the definition of a place name in some cases to include them. It is certainly rare.