The countries that celebrate New Year's Eve first are Samoa and Christmas Island, which is also called Kiribati. Baker Island, Howard Island and other outlying U.S. islands celebrate the new year last.

The order in which countries celebrate the new year is determined by the International Date Line. The International Date Line is located at 180 degrees longitude and is situated on the exact opposite side of the earth as the Prime Meridian. The International Date Line divides the current day from the previous day. Countries located to the west of the International Date Line are a day behind countries situated to the east of the International Date Line.

New Year Start Dates Around the World

Across the world, there are 39 different time zones in use. From the first country to the last, it takes a total of 26 hours for all nations to ring in the new year. Based on their proximity to the International Date Line, the islands of Samoa and Kiribati are the first places in the world to welcome the new year. Within these islands, the cities of Kiritimati, Salelologa and Apia are the first cities in the world to celebrate New Year's. Next to welcome the new year are the Chatham Islands and New Zealand. Parts of Russia celebrate the holiday next, followed by Australia in several stages, with the exception of Western Australia, which follows Japan, South Korea and four other countries. North Korea is the next location to welcome the new year, followed by many countries in Southeast Asia. Nepal, India and Pakistan follow in the chain of countries celebrating the start of the new year. Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran and eight other countries follow.

Russia and 22 other countries start the new year 11 hours after Samoa and Kiribati. Greece and 31 other countries start the new year 12 hours after Samoa. The other countries that celebrate New Year's within the first 24-hour time period are Argentina, parts of Brazil, Newfoundland, parts of Canada and 29 other countries, including countries in South America. Between midnight and 4:00 a.m. the next day, many parts of the United States celebrate the new year. French Polynesia, American Samoa and a number of outlying U.S. islands are the last places in the world to start the new year.


These countries are also already in 2019

1) New Zealand



2) Australia



3) Fiji islands


Note : The below images are the present time of the above countries as at the time of compiling this post

Source : Google

10 hours to go here in nigeria

bamvik:
10 hours to go here in nigeria

we still dey 1902 for naija o

the date might be modern but the state of the nation is prehistoric

Samoa is actually the first country to see the new year.

BIAFRA

2019 is just an hour away over here in Biafra land..

Daura counting down

FreshBoss007:



we still dey 1902 for naija o


the date might be modern but the state of the nation is prehistoric

Stone age things

God is great. Nigeria will get into 2019 in few hours, let us pray that evil men and women who are holding this nation at ransome are removed in 2019.

Our elections year, our opportunity to correct our mistakes.

May 2019 wipe out tears from the eyes of Nigerians

Amen.

I still hang on to my dream of touring the world!

happy new year to you all

EVILFOREST:
BIAFRA

Ey?

loo

China, india

Jibrin from sudan is already in may29th 2019

Ok

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LOL. You funny.

9ja Still Dey Early 60's abeg

Malaysia
Indonesia
Philippine
India
Pakistan
Bangladesh

EVILFOREST:
BIAFRA

Biafuro you mean

4) India

7figuresalary:
2019 is just an hour away over here in Biafra land..

From which village?

New zealand and australia are almost dsame

Happy New Year from Far East

Congrats.Count down already ongoing here in Nigeria.

Still get to see it before trump, the leader of the free world.

W

Biafra Republic