Wo wird Weihnachten gefeiert und wo nicht
Von vladgrinch
Wo wird Weihnachten gefeiert und wo nicht
Von vladgrinch
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What’s the deal with January 6th and 7th?
Also worth noting that much of latin america does most of their christmas celebration on december 24th, and christmas day is just kids playing with their toys and adults nursing their hangovers
Uruguay changed the name of Christmas to „Day of the family“ or whatever but it’s celebrated nationally. This is not correct.
Seems odd that Christmas is not shown as a holiday in Uruguay. Looks like it is celebrated and is a day off there… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observance_of_Christmas_by_country?wprov=sfti1#Uruguay
I see that the creators of the map forgot that a decent chunk of europe celebrates on the 24th and not the 25th and thus should have a different colour
In Uruguay, December 25th is a national holiday, but it is not officially called Christmas. It is called „Family Day“ after the separation of church and state at the start of the 20th century. All religious holiday changed the name officially, but culturally does not make difference
Fun fact: England once banned Christmas. This led to a riot. The authorities response led to deaths, including that of a child named Christmas.
So England killed Christmas on Christmas day.
Pakistan has national holiday on 25 Dec. Map is incorrect
In the UK and most Commonwealth nations it is a public holiday on the 25th and 26th.
Italy has public holiday in December 25th and January 6th, not sure why it’s not striped yellow
In Spain the 25th of December and the 6th of January are public holidays
Christmas is NOT a holiday in Thailand.
I have worked on this day for both private and government enterprises
which ones have banned it?
7th is no longer a holiday in Ukraine.
6th of January is also bank holiday in Spain (Epifanía)
Germany here, the 26th is also a national public holiday, January 6th only in some states.
A lot of countries in Europe celebrate 24th, Sweden for example. Today is a holiday because its the day after christmas for us. Map is not exactly right.
We did Christmas on the 24th in Norway
In the Nordic countries (and probably others) Christmas is celebrated on the 24th, not the 25th.
The DPRK is surprising.
Of course Christmas is banned in Northern Korea..
When Saudi Arabia and Iran don’t ban it but **checks notes**… Tajikistan does?? WHAT
Man why is this sub full of people sharing inaccurate maps? Just from a quick glance there are two mistakes: UK has a public holiday tomorrow, boxing day. And 25th is a public holiday in Pakistan (for both Christmas and Jinnah’s birth anniversary)
You know there are colors other than green, yes?
In Italy it’s holiday 25 and 26 of December, and also 1 and 6 of January.
When I visited Ukraine everyone I knew celebrated January 7. I’m sure there are those that celebrated December 25th. But everyone I knew it was January 7.
This was before the war. And I’ve heard i it’s changing. More people are celebrating on the 25th in Ukraine now. Not sure how true that is. Just what someone told me.
No mention of December 26th? Christmas lasts 2 days, not just one.
Taiwan flipped this year (sort of). December 25th is celebrated as “Constitution Day”.
In Taiwan Dec. 25 is a public holiday since this year. Although the holiday is nominally the Constitution Day, it was set at Christmas on purpose.
In Sweden, December 24-26 are public holidays.
in spain the 6th of january is holiday too
Map is incorrect or at the least misleading. From what I noticed myself and from comments. Probably alot more wrong as such…
Celebrates but missing (likely due to governments changing official name of day but indeed it is christmas): Uruguay, Mozambique, and Pakistan
Doesn’t actually enforce national holiday: Thailand
Please bear in mind that all churches celebrate on the 25th December it’s just that Julian 25th December is January 7th in Gregorian calendar.
(Note: some Orthodox Christian churches (Greek, Romanian Bulgarian.. use [revised Julian ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Julian_calendar) and celebrate on the 25th as well… Funnily enough even tho a Serbian scientist made it, Serbian Orthodox church refuses to use it.)
We have it off as a public holiday in Taiwan starting this year. But it’s not called Christmas. It’s called Constitution Day. But December 25 is now a public holiday
Ummm… Christmas is a 2 day Holiday (25th and 26th) for Christians in Pakistan, the first day being the birthday of the founder of the country and is a national holiday for that reason.
Surprised it’s a holiday in Indonesia it being a Muslim country.
Interestingly, banned in Somalia.
Surprised it’s a holiday in Indonesia it being a muslim country.
Another one of your maps is incorrect. SHOCKER.
It is actually a holiday in Pakistan.
Japan banned Christmas eh?
North Korea tracks, obviously. But Somalia and Tajikistan are not the countries where I would expect it to be banned.
Wrong about Pakistan, it’s a public holiday
Japan surprises me. Thought Christmas was…big in Japan.
[Thailand is wrong.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Thailand)
Poland is 24th-26th
We always had in Poland 25th and 26th. And from this year is also 24th. So 24, 25 and 26 is free.
Serbia is just wrong. 25 Dec. is not a public holiday. Christmas is on 7. Jan, which is a public holiday.
It starts on 24th in nordics.
Also, ‚where is it celebrated‘ becomes a misleading title when we’re only counting public holidays. Traditions can exist without state recognition. China has christmas stuff going on, just not as big or widespread as in other places.