Santa Claus

Santa Claus — America's Christmas home town — is a village of 2,600 people in . The town is a destination for Christmas-related activities.
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  • Type: Village with 2,590 residents
  • Description: town in Carter, Clay, and Harrison townships in Spencer County, Indiana, United States
  • Also known as: “Santa Claus, IN”, “Santa Claus, Indiana”, “Santa Fe”, “Santa Fe, IN”, “Santa Fen, Indiana”, and “Santaclaus”
  • Postal code: 47579

Places of Interest

Highlights include Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari and Thunderbird.

Theme park
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Holiday World & Splashin' Safari, originally known as Santa Claus Land, is a theme park and water park located in Santa Claus, . The park opened in 1946 and features rides, live entertainment, and games.

Roller coaster
is a steel roller coaster located in the section of in Santa Claus, Indiana. Designed by Bolliger & Mabillard, the ride opened to the public on April 25, 2015, as the eighth Wing Coaster in existence and the fourth in the United States.

Roller coaster
Photo: Jeremy Thompson, CC BY 2.0.
is a wooden roller coaster in 's Halloween section in Santa Claus, . It was designed and built in 1994 by the now-defunct Custom Coasters International, with the help of Dennis McNulty and Larry Bill.

Santa Claus

Latitude
38.1184° or 38° 7′ 6″ north
Longitude
-86.9204° or 86° 55′ 13″ west
Population
2,590
Elevation
472 feet (144 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US SC6
Open location code
86CM439H+9V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9261321874
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
4264457
Wiki­data ID
Q1856420
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Santa Claus” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سانتا كلوز”
  • Armenian: “Սանտա Կլաուս”
  • Basque: “Santa Claus”
  • Catalan: “Santa Claus”
  • Cebuano: “Santa Claus”
  • Chechen: “Санта-Клаус”
  • Chinese: “Santa Claus”
  • Chinese: “聖克勞斯”
  • Chinese: “聖塔克勞斯”
  • Czech: “Santa Claus”
  • Dagbani: “Santa Claus”
  • Danish: “Santa Claus”
  • Dutch: “Santa Claus”
  • French: “Santa Claus”
  • German: “Santa Claus”
  • Gilaki: “سانتا کلاوس (اينديانا)”
  • Gilaki: “سانتا کلاوس”
  • Haitian: “Santa Claus, Indiana”
  • Haitian: “Santa Claus”
  • Hebrew: “סנטה פן”
  • Hebrew: “סנטה קלאוס”
  • Hungarian: “Santa Claus”
  • Italian: “Santa Claus”
  • Japanese: “サンタクロース (インディアナ州)”
  • Japanese: “サンタクロース”
  • Ladin: “Santa Claus”
  • Mazanderani: “سانتا کلائوس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Santa Claus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Santa Claus”
  • Norwegian: “Santa Claus”
  • Polish: “Santa Claus”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Claus”
  • Russian: “Санта Клаус, Индиана”
  • Russian: “Санта Клаус”
  • Serbian: “Santa Claus”
  • Serbian: “Санта Клоз”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Santa Claus, Indiana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Santa Claus”
  • Slovak: “Santa Claus”
  • Spanish: “Santa Claus, Indiana”
  • Spanish: “Santa Claus”
  • Swedish: “Santa Claus, Indiana”
  • Swedish: “Santa Claus”
  • Tatar: “Санта-Клаус”
  • Ukrainian: “Санта-Клаус”
  • Uzbek: “Santa Claus”
  • Volapük: “Santa Claus”

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