Every country in the world and the exact order they celebrate New Years When the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve we officially enter a new year, and leave the last one behind us.
For many of us, time zones can be confusing - and it's actually not as simple as you might think to establish the order in which each country celebrates New Year - this is because of something called the International Date Line, which was established in 1884 and aimed to make international travel less complicated.
According to World Population Review, the list below is as cohesive an order as we can get about where New Year's Eve is celebrated, from first to last - however, it's important to note that according to the website, many of these countries jointly share position with this around them.
While in the UK, anyone watching the bells on TV will have likely noticed that many other countries have reached the milestone before us - and a lot of countries have yet to meet the new year when we do.
Not only that, but countries can also decide their own times - so some countries have multiple local times, and some use only one official time - like China, which sticks to Beijing's clock across the country despite how unbelievably vast it is.
