Shangri-la
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Camelot, Cockaigne, Eden, Elysium, empyrean, fantasyland, heaven, lotusland, never-never land, New Jerusalem, nirvana, paradise, promised land, utopia, Zion (also Sion)
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The first known use of Shangri-la was in 1937
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