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Public holidays in Germany can be declared by law either by the Federal German authorities or by the Länder for their respective jurisdictions. The constitution requires that there must be some public holidays. At present the only federal holiday is German Unity Day (Unity Treaty, Art. 2 sect. 2); all the other holidays, even those celebrated all over Germany, are prescribed by state ...
Public holidays in Canada[a] known as statutory holidays, stat holidays, or simply stats (French: jours fériés), consist of a variety of cultural, nationalistic, and religious holidays that are legislated in Canada at the federal or provincial and territorial levels.
Below are lists of public holidays by countries.Current countries
The European Union does not set public holidays for its member states. However the European Commission does set public holidays for the employees of the institutions of the European Union. The holidays will typically cover the following dates of significance and movable feasts: [1]
Civic Holiday (French: congé civique) is a public holiday in Canada celebrated on the first Monday in August. [1] Though the first Monday of August is celebrated in most of Canada as a public holiday, [2] it is only officially known as "Civic Holiday" in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, where it is a territorial statutory holiday. In other provinces and municipalities, the holiday is ...
Christmas in Germany (3 C, 54 P) E Public holidays in East Germany (2 P) Pages in category "Public holidays in Germany" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
In some countries, the public holidays are strictly bound to the calendar dates, so if they happen on Saturday or Sunday, they are "lost" for that year. As a result, the average number of paid extra free days can be lower than the table shows.
The following table is a list of countries by number of public holidays excluding non-regular special holidays. Nepal has the highest number of public holidays in the world with 35 annually.