- In Greek, St. Nicholas is known as Hagios Nikolaos, Bishop of Myra (in the present day Turkey )

- In China , he is called Shengdan Laoren.

- In England , his name is Father Christmas , where he has a longer coat and a longer beard.

- In France , he's known as Pere Noel.

- In Germany , children get presents from Christindl, the Christ Child.

- Nowadays the Joulupukki of Finland resembles the American Santa Claus.

- In Brazil and Peru , Santa Claus is called Papa Noel.

- In Italy Babbo Natale, which means Father Christmas, is Santa.

- In Morocco he is known as Black Peter

- In Japan , Santa Clause is called Santa Clause or just "Santa". Children often call him "Santa no ojisan," which means "Uncle Santa."

- In Sweden Jultomten visits the evening before Christmas day, pulling a big bag of julklappar (Christmas presents) in the deep snow.

- In the Netherlands , he is called Kerstman.

- In Russia , he is called Grandfather Frost that is "ded moroz" (the second "o" has its accent and the last "z" is pronouned as "s".)

- He is also called Kris Kringle - which comes from the German term "the Christ Child" (Christ Kind).

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