From: thomasmh@remove-this-bit.online.no   
      
   "Ed Light"  wrote in message   
   news:ZDUhe.21338$Fa1.3329@fed1read02...   
   > I wonder if anyone knows what country or area of Euope Kiki's Delivery   
   > Service is set in?   
   >   
   > A police car reads "Polis," there's "gutokipanja" on a store, and a woman   
   is   
   > named "Osono."   
   >   
   > Maybe I'd recognize it if I'd been to Europe.   
   >   
      
   According to Ghibli fan-site nausicaa.net, the city is largely based on   
   Stockholm and Visby in Sweden. I've never been to Visby, but some parts of   
   the city do indeed remind me of Stockholm.   
      
   Incidentally, "polis" is Swedish for "police", but "Gutokipänja" is   
   meaningless, though pronouncable (just), in Swedish and is probably a   
   made-up word.   
      
   http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/kiki/faq.html#koriko   
      
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   Thomas   
      
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