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## Voting

### System

Each country awards a set of 1 - 7 points, followed by 8, 10 and 12 points for their top 3 favourite songs

### Winner

 Japan"Kimino Mikata" by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

After their win in Tegucigalpa, Sweden's capital Stockholm hosted the 7th edition of OrbisVision.

42 countries have confirmed their participation.

The contest consisted of 3 shows, two semi-finals and a Grand Final.

The winner was Japan with the song "Kimino Mikata" by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. This is the first time Japan has won the contest and also the first time an Asian country has won.

## Location

### Host city

Stockholm is Sweden's capital and largest city, with nearly a million inhabitants in the city proper, and 2.3 million within Stockholm County.

The inner city is made up of 14 islands across Lake Mälaren and three streams into the brackish Baltic Sea, with the Stockholm archipelago with some 24,000 islands, islets and skerries.

Over 30% of the city area is made up of waterways, and another 30% is made up of green areas. Air and water are said to be the freshest of any European capital. Stockholm hosts the Nobel Prize ceremony and has around 70 museums.

Due to the post-glacial rebound, Stockholm is slowly rising from the sea. Mälaren was a bay of the Baltic Sea throughout the Viking Age of the 9th and 10th centuries; today's Stockholm was the waterway for the first Swedish cities; Birka, Uppsala, and Sigtuna.

As Sigtuna was sacked by pirates in AD 1187, the Swedes needed to fortify the strait.

    As the rising land cut off Mälaren from the sea in the 13th century, Stockholm became an important trading post. The city is said to be founded by Birger jarl (*jarl* is a title corresponding to British *earl*), who had a fortress built on an island later known as Gamla Stan.
The first known written records that mention Stockholm date from 1252; this is the considered year of foundation. In the 15th century Stockholm replaced Uppsala as the effective capital. Stockholm was an associate of the Hanseatic League, and since its liberation from Denmark by King Gustavus Vasa in 1523, Stockholm has remained Sweden's most important center of commerce, although Gothenburg later became the largest international port.

    During the 17th century, Stockholm was the base of the Swedish Empire, with a land area twice the country's current size, nearly encircling the Baltic Sea.

Much of the inner city plan was laid out in the 19th century, and the inner city still contains buildings from all ages since the 15th century.

Like the rest of Sweden, Stockholm was largely untouched by the World Wars, but, particularly between 1955 and 1975, hundreds of old buildings in Norrmalm were demolished in a large-scale modernization process, emulating similar projects in other European cities.

Since 1901, Stockholm has hosted the annual Nobel Prize ceremony for all categories except the peace prize, which is handed out in Oslo.

In the 20th century, metropolitan Stockholm sprawled out across most of Stockholm County, with the development of the Stockholm Metro, famous for its contemporary art. 1950s suburbs such as Vällingby became a model for suburban development in other cities.

While most of the attractions are in the inner city, a majority of the citizens live in the suburbs.

Otherwise a safe and calm city, Stockholm is also known for the term *Stockholm Syndrome*, which was coined to describe a hostage's sympathy for a captor during a bank robbery in Norrmalm in 1973.

### Venue

After Sweden's win in Tegucigalpa, SVT confirmed the capital Stockholm will host the 7th edition with the Avicii Arena becoming the host venue of the contest.

**Avicii Arena**, originally known as **Stockholm Globe Arena** and previously as **Ericsson Globe**, but commonly referred to in Swedish simply as **Globen**, is an indoor arena located in Stockholm Globe City, Johanneshov district of Stockholm, Sweden. It was first opened on 19th February 1989.

The arena represents the Sun in the Sweden Solar System, the world's largest scale model of the Solar System. It's the largest hemispherical building on Earth and took two and a half years to build. Its main uses are for ice hockey, concerts and other indoor sports.

The arena hosted the finals of Melodifestivalen from 1989 until 2012 and hosted the first 3 heats of the 2022 edition. It was chosen by SVT to host the 2000 and 2016 editions of the Eurovision Song Contest. It also hosted the 2021 World Figure Skating Championships and will host some matches of the 2023 World Men's Handball Championship, which Sweden is co-hosting with Poland.

It was renamed to its current name in 2021 in honour of the late Swedish DJ Tim Bergling, better known as Avicii, who tragically committed suicide in Muscat, Oman in 2018.

## Participating countries

### Semi-final 1

Norway, Brazil and the United Kingdom will vote in this semi-final. Qualifiers are marked in blue.

### Semi-final 2

Ireland, Canada and Sweden will vote in this semi-final. Qualifiers are marked in blue.