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Santa Claus Village (Finnish: Joulupukin Pajakylä) is an amusement park in Rovaniemi in the Lapland region of Finland. It was opened in 1985. It was opened in 1985. [ 1 ]
During the last deglaciation ice in Lapland retreated from the north-east, east and southeast so that the lower course of the Tornio was the last part of Finland to be deglaciated 10,100 years ago. [26] Present-day periglacial conditions in Lapland are reflected in the existence of numerous palsas, permafrost landforms developed on peat. [19]
The city has a number of hotels and restaurants located both in the centre and on the outskirts of the town, hosting over 481,000 visitors in 2013. [35] Tourism can be seen and heard in the city's streetscape, at the Arctic Circle and at Rovaniemi Airport , one of Finland's busiest airports in terms of passenger numbers. [ 36 ]
Oulu is the second largest monolingual Finnish-speaking municipality in Finland after Tampere. There are 497 Swedish speakers in Oulu, or 0.2% of the population. [45] The number of Sámi speakers, Finland's third official language, is 155 inhabitants. As English and Swedish are compulsory school subjects, functional bilingualism or ...
Dominick Arduin (1961–2004) was a Frenchwoman who disappeared in her attempt to ski to the North Pole. In 1988 Arduin moved to Finland . For 15 years she worked as a guide in Finnish Lapland and received dual citizenship.
Upon launching the world's first GSM network in 1991, [5] operator Radiolinja (later merged with Elisa) issued short phone numbers in the format 050 XXXX and 050 XXXXX to their employees and shareholders until the early 2000s. New shareholders purchasing 5000 FIM (about 1101 EUR in 2021 [6]) or more worth of shares could request a number.
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The hotel is part of the private Lapland Hotels chain. Due to Lapland Hotels' wish, a law change is being prepared, after which it could build a hotel six times larger than before in the Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park. A civic movement was founded to oppose the project in 2008, [7] but permission was granted for the hotel extension in 2009. [8]