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{{short description|Fictional island in Swift's Gulliver's Travels}}
{{Infobox fictional location
| name = Luggnagg
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| caption = Map of Glubbdubdrib, Lugnagg, and other lands east of Japan (original map, Pt III, ''Gulliver's Travels'')
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| creator = [[Jonathan Swift]]
| genre = [[Satire]]
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| locations = Traldragdubb or Trildrogdrib (capital)
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| ethnic_groups = Luggnaggians
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'''Luggnagg''' is an island kingdom, one of the [[fictional country|imaginary countries]] visited by [[Lemuel Gulliver]] in the 1726 satirical novel ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' by [[Anglo-Irish]] author [[Jonathan Swift]].

==Location==
The location of Luggnagg is illustrated in both the text and the map at the beginning of part III of ''Gulliver's Travels'', though they are not consistent with each other.
According to the map, Luggnagg is southeast of [[Japan]] and southwest of [[Balnibarbi]].<ref>''Gulliver's Travels'' (GT), part III, ch I: Oxford World Classic (OWC) p140</ref>
The book's text states that Luggnagg is located about one hundred leagues southeast of Japan, but northwest of Balnibarbi and gives its position as 29°N 140°E.<ref>GT pt III, ch 7: OWC p180</ref> The page notes refer to Frederick Bracher's "Maps in Gulliver’s Travels" (1944–45),<ref>GT, Notes: OWC p333</ref> which examines the problems raised by the maps in ''Gulliver's Travels'', especially those accompanying Part III of the book.
The map also shows the port of [[Maldonada (Gulliver's Travels)|Maldonada]] in Luggnagg, and the island of [[Glubdubdrib]] to the southwest,<ref>GT pt III, ch 1: OWC p140</ref> while the text is clear those places are in Balnibarbi.<ref>GT pt III, ch 7: OWC p180</ref>

==Description==
It has two principal ports, Clumegnig on the southeast coast, which is visited by ships from Maldonada (the port city of Balnibarbi), and Glanguenstald in the southwest, which has commerce with Japan. The capital of Luggnagg is Traldragdubb (also pronounced Trildrogdrib).<ref>{{cite book |title=The Dictionary of Imaginary Places |last=Manguel |first=Alberto |author-link=Alberto Manguel |last2=Guadalupi |first2=Gianni |publisher=[[Harcourt (publisher)|Harcourt]] |location=San Diego |edition=Newly updated and expanded |year=2000 |isbn=0-15-600872-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofimag00mang_0 |url-access=registration |pages=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofimag00mang_0/page/388 388]–389}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Critical companion to Jonathan Swift: a literary reference to his life and works |last=DeGategno |first=Paul J. |author2=R. Jay Stubblefield |publisher=[[Infobase Publishing]] |edition=illustrated |year=2006 |isbn=0-8160-5093-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=so6ZNdlRfLIC |page=193}}</ref> A sample of the language of Luggnagg is found in the book, on the occasion when Gulliver has an audience with Luggnagg's king, and is described as being very ugly and clumsy for Gulliver to pronounce.

Notable among the inhabitants of Luggnagg are the [[struldbrugg]]s, unfortunates who are immortal but suffer the infirmities of old age.

==See also==
*[[Mount Penglai]], an easterly location in Chinese and Japanese mythology where the [[Eight Immortals]] lived.
*[[Fusang]], another location in the further east in Chinese mythology.

==Further reading==
* "The Allegory of Luggnagg and the Struldbruggs in 'Gulliver's Travels'" by Robert P. Fitzgerald, ''Studies in Philology'', Vol. 65, No. 4 (Jul., 1968), pp. 657-676
* "Licking the Dust in Luggnagg: Swift’s Reflections on the Legacy of King William’s Conquest of Ireland" by Anne Barbeau Gardiner, ''Swift Studies'' 8 (1993): 35-44

==References==
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==Sources==
*Jonathan Swift: ''Guliver's Travels'' Oxford World Classics (1986, reprint 2008) introduction by Claude Rawson, explanatory notes by Ian Higgins

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