There are eight nations in the world that have an official Thanksgiving Day. These nations are: Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Japan, Korea, Liberia, Switzerland and the United States of America.

The tradition of declaring a special day for the thanks giving is quite an ancient one. Among the most well-knows symbols of Thanksgiving, one dates back to the ancient Greece. The conrnucopia or “horn of plenty” comes from the myth of Zeus giving Amalthea (Greek nymph and his foster mother, who fed him with goat’s milk when he was an infant), one of the goat’s horns as a gesture of thanks, with the promise the it would bring a plenty of anything she wished for. The thanksgiving of the ancient Greeks took the form of an annual fall festival, during which offerings were made to Demeter, the goddess of corn. Every October the Romans held a harvest festival called Cerelia, in praise of Ceres (Demeter's Roman counterpart) which included games, parades and a feast. The Jewish harvest festival, Sukkoth, is still celebrated every autumn as it has been for 3000 years. These days the Thanksgiving is the occasion for celebrating the year's plenty with feasts and joyful gatherings.