 Santaworld | |
| Location | Gesunda Mountain, Sweden |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 60°52′46″N14°31′04″E / 60.8794°N 14.5178°E |
| Status | Operating |
| Opened | 8 December 1984 |
| Website | www |
Santaworld (Swedish : Tomteland) is a Santa Claus-based theme park on the Gesunda Mountain south of Mora, Sweden. It was opened on 8 December 1984. [1]
It featured prominently in the music video to Shakin' Stevens's 1985 single "Merry Christmas Everyone".
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, across from Estonia. Finland covers an area of 338,455 square kilometres (130,678 sq mi) with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish and Swedish are the official languages, Swedish being the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes.
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The krona is the official currency of the Kingdom of Sweden. Both the ISO code "SEK" and currency sign "kr" are in common use; the former precedes or follows the value, the latter usually follows it but, especially in the past, it sometimes preceded the value. In English, the currency is sometimes referred to as the Swedish crown, as krona means "crown" in Swedish. The Swedish krona was the ninth-most traded currency in the world by value in April 2016.
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Swedes are an ethnic group native to the Nordic region, primarily their nation state of Sweden, who share a common ancestry, culture, history and language. They mostly inhabit Sweden and the other Nordic countries, in particular Finland where they are an officially recognized minority, with a substantial diaspora in other countries, especially the United States.
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