New Zealand, an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean has welcomed the New Year 2023. The country is already 45 minutes old into 2023 at the time of filing this report.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports New Zealand is among the early nations to hold its New Year’s Eve celebrations and welcome in 2023.
New Zealand welcomed the 2023 New Year at 10.15 am GMT with a light show over the Auckland Harbour Bridge and a fireworks display from the Auckland Sky Tower.
TNG reports that the New Year will be ushered in at different times across the globe. Australia, especially, will join New Zealand as one of the first nations to ring in the New Year.
Meanwhile, the small Pacific island nations of Tonga, Samoa and Kiribati/Christmas Island are actually the first nations of the world to mark the New Year at 10 am GMT.
Howland and Baker Islands, which are unoccupied territories of the United States, will be the last places on Earth to celebrate the New Year.
However, the last occupied territory to celebrate January 1 will be American Samoa at 11 am GMT tomorrow morning.