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Rovaniemi
[raw-vah-nye-mee]
noun
a city in N Finland, near the Arctic Circle.
Example Sentences
It's not just Rovaniemi that's been gripped by scorching temperatures.
"It's super-hot here – 30C is killing me. I came to escape the heat," says Silvia, a tourist from Prague visiting Santa's holiday village in Rovaniemi.
It doesn't help that days in Rovaniemi are currently 20 hours a day, so the sun is still shining until well after 23:00 – keeping temperatures up for longer.
While Santa's workshop in the city of Rovaniemi is adapting with cheerful resilience, the unusually warm temperatures in the Arctic are a serious matter – and scientists are pointing at climate change as the culprit.
By 25 July, the heatwave in Rovaniemi will have lasted 15 days.
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