Where should Santa Claus live if prices at the North Pole get too high?
Kyrghystan wants him. They have named a mountain after him. They say it is geographically more central for Santa than the North Pole. Earlier this month, Passport noted that a Swedish consulting firm had calculated that Santa Claus should begin his worldwide toy-delivery journey in the mountains of northern Kyrgyzstan—at latitude (N) 40.40°, longitude (E) 74.24°, to be exact—to maximize efficiency of distribution and minimize strain on his reindeer. Authorities in Kyrgyzstan have become quite excited by the prospect that Father Christmas might be relocating from the North Pole (now claimed by the Russians anyway) to their Central Asia country.
