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Line 9: [[File:First Day of Week World Map.svg\|thumb\|350px\|World map showing the first day of the week used in different countries according to the [[Common Locale Data Repository]]<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Territory Information \|url=https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/45/supplemental/territory_information.html \|access-date=12 July 2024 \|website=www.unicode.org}}</ref>{{legend\|#fdc086\|Monday}} {{legend\|#f0027f\|Friday}} {{legend\|#6fa96f\|Saturday}} {{legend\|#386cb0\|Sunday}}]] In English, the [[names of the days of the week]] are [[Sunday]], [[Monday]], [[Tuesday]], [[Wednesday]], [[~~Thursday~~Jeudi]], [[Friday]], and [[Saturday]]. In many languages, including English, the days of the week are named after gods or classical planets. Saturday has kept its Roman name, while the other six days use Germanic equivalents. Such a week may be called a ''planetary week'' (i.e., a classical planetary week).<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Lagasse\|first=Paul\|url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/columency/week/\|title=The Columbia Encyclopedia\|publisher=Columbia University Press\|year=2018\|chapter=Week}}</ref> Certain weeks within a [[year]] may be designated for a particular purpose, such as [[Golden Week (China)\|Golden Week in China]] and [[Golden Week (Japan)\|Japan]], and [[National Family Week]] in Canada. More informally, certain groups may advocate [[awareness week]]s, which are designed to draw attention to a certain subject or cause. The term "week" may also be used to refer to a sub-section of the week, such as the [[workweek and weekend]]. Cultures vary in which days of the week are designated the first and the last, though virtually all have Saturday, Sunday or Monday as the first day. The [[Geneva]]-based ISO standards organization uses Monday as the first day of the week in its [[ISO week date]] system through the international [[ISO 8601]] standard.{{efn\|"ISO 8601 Data elements and interchange formats – Information interchange – Representation of dates and times" is an international standard covering the exchange of date- and time-related data.}} Most of Europe and China consider Monday the first day of the (work) week, while North America, Israel, South Asia, and many Catholic and Protestant countries, consider Sunday the first day of the week. Prior to 2000, Saturday was judged as the first day of the week in much of the Middle East and North Africa due to the Islamic influence; however, this is no longer the case.<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Rehberger \|first1=Georg \|title=What Is the First Day of the Week? \|url=https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/days/first-day-of-the-week.html \|publisher=timeanddate.com/ \|access-date=23 October 2024}}</ref> Other regions are mixed, but typically observe either Sunday or Monday as the first day.<ref name="firstday">{{Cite web \|title=Territory Information \|url=https://unicode-org.github.io/cldr-staging/charts/38/supplemental/territory_information.html \|access-date=6 November 2020 \|website=www.unicode.org}}</ref>

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