Although here we are still counting down the last hours of the old year, in some parts of the world they are already enjoying the first minutes or hours of the new year. Celebrations and shooting of New Year's fireworks, as usual, were hosted by world institutions.

Due to the time difference, he was the first to be greeted at 11:00 CET by the residents of Kiritimati Atoll, also known as Christmas Island, which is part of the Pacific nation of Kiribati, which consists of three dozen islands and atolls.

The entire archipelago stretches across three time zones, so that the change of old and new years in Kiribati ends at 14.00 WIB.

As one of the first major cities in the world, Auckland in New Zealand enters the new year, where the date changes at 12:00 CET and the Sky Tower there lights up with fireworks.

With the strikes on the second afternoon, attention was focused on Sydney, Australia, which welcomed the New Year in its iconic harbor, they wrote Canberra time.

The city skyline at the Harbor Bridge and Opera House lit up the eagerly awaited fireworks as excited spectators watched.

By station BBC spectators had been flocking there since morning in hopes of finding a good place to watch the show, which took 15 months to plan and ultimately lasted a full 12 minutes.

New Year on Earth comes gradually, west of the date line. This internationally recognized line, which passes through approximately the 180th longitude, is the boundary beyond which dates must be changed.

American Samoa will be one of the last countries to enter the new year, which will happen on Monday when it will be 12:00 in the Czech Republic. At the same time, American Samoa is located only about 200 kilometers east of Samoa, which celebrates the new year as one of the first.