The world is already welcoming the New Year !!!

Where the new year comes first in the world...

+0.00 - The Republic of Kiribati is an island of a Pacific state located in Micronesia and Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean.

+0.15 - Chatham Island (New Zealand), located away from the main islands, the Chatham archipelago, celebrates the New Year second — it has a special time zone.

+1.00 — After that, the New Year comes to New Zealand. At the same time, he is also met by polar explorers at the stations of the South Pole in Antarctica.

+2.00 - Residents of the Russian Far East (Anadyr, Kamchatka), inhabitants of the Fiji Islands and some other Pacific islands (Nauru, Tuvalu, etc.) celebrate next.

+2.30 — Norfolk Island (Australia).

+3.00 - Part of Eastern Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra) and some Pacific islands (Vanuatu, Micronesia, etc.).

+3.30 - South Australia (Adelaide).

+4.00 — The state of Queensland in Australia (Brisbane), part of Russia (Vladivostok), some islands of Papua New Guinea and the Mariana Islands.

+4.30 — Northern Territories of Australia (Darwin).

+5.00 - Japan and Korea.

+6.00 — in China, but most of the inhabitants of the Celestial Empire do not celebrate December 31 (the majority of Chinese celebrate the change of the year according to the lunar calendar), part of Southeast Asia and the western territories of Australia.

+7.00 — Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia.

+7.30 — Myanmar.

+8.00 - Bangladesh, Sri Lanka (the majority of residents celebrate Thai New Year — Songkran) and part of Russia (Novosibirsk, Omsk).

+8.15 - Nepal.

+8.30 - India.

+9.00 - Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and part of Russia (Yekaterinburg, Ufa).

+9.30 — Afghanistan (Afghans do not celebrate December 31, as they recognize only the Muslim New Year).

+10.00 - Armenia, Azerbaijan, part of Russia (Samara), some islands in the Indian Ocean.

+10.30 — Iran (the majority of residents do not celebrate on the 31st of December, as only recognize the Muslim new year).

+11.00 — Part of the Middle East and Gulf countries, Africa, part of Russia (Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Crimea).

+12: 00 noon, Eastern Europe (Romania, Greece, Ukraine, etc.), Turkey, Israel, Finland, Africa.

+13.00 - Western and Central Europe (Belgium, Italy, France, Hungary, Sweden, etc.), part of Africa.

+14.00 - Meridian Zero (Greenwich), Great Britain, Portugal, Greenland, Canary Islands, part of Africa.

+15.00 - Azores.

+16.00 - Brazil (New Year residents of Rio de Janeiro celebrate with elements of paganism - go to the ocean and bring gifts to the goddess of the sea Yemaya).

+17.00 - Argentina and the eastern part of South America.

+17.30 — Newfoundland Island (Canada).

+18.00 - Eastern Canada, many Caribbean islands, part of South America.

+19.00 - Canada (Ottawa) and the USA (Washington, New York), the western part of South America.

+20.00 - Central parts of Canada and the USA (Chicago, Houston), Mexico and most Latin American countries.

+21.00 — Canada (Edmonton, calgary) and the USA (Denver, Phoenix, salt lake city).

+22.00 — Western Canada (Vancouver), and US West coast (Los Angeles, San Francisco).

+23.00 — Alaska (USA).

+23.30 — the Marquesas Islands, as part of French Polynesia.

+24.00 - Hawaiian Islands (USA), Tahiti and Cook Islands.

+25.00 - Residents of the state of Samoa are the last to celebrate the New Year.

Please note that despite the change of the calendar year, not all countries celebrate New Year's holidays, for a huge number of inhabitants of the planet, if not for the majority, the New Year comes according to its own calendars and is traditionally celebrated at a completely different time. For example, in China, a billion people celebrate Chinese New Year in the interval between January 17 and February 19, during the new moon, and January 1 is almost an ordinary calendar day for them!