Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in several countries around the world. The countries that celebrate Thanksgiving include:
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United States: Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November and is a national holiday.
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Canada: Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October and is a national holiday.
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Grenada: Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on October 25 and is a national holiday. It is unrelated to the American and Canadian versions of Thanksgiving.
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Liberia: Thanksgiving is celebrated on the first Thursday of November and is a national holiday. It is celebrated in large part due to the nations founding as a colony of the American Colonization Society in 1821 by former slaves and free people of color from the United States.
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Saint Lucia: Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the first Monday in October and is a national holiday.
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Australia: Thanksgiving is celebrated on the last Thursday in November, but it is not a national holiday.
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The Netherlands: Thanksgiving is celebrated in the Dutch town of Leiden in honor of the Pilgrims that lived in the city before heading to the New World. It is not a national holiday.
Other countries have similar celebrations of gratitude and harvest festivals during autumn, including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, and the United Kingdom, but they are not officially called Thanksgiving.
