ThemeParkTraveller
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Not that the story called out a specific Scandinavian country, but it's assumed to be Denmark as well. Hans Christian Andersen is Danish, and in the harbor at Copenhagen there is a statue of the Little Mermaid, created by Danish sculptor Edvard Eriksen in 1913 to celebrate the story.
Hans Christian Andersen also made an appearance in the animated TV series, where he meets Ariel and is inspired to write the story of The Little Mermaid.