Tonga
Tonga
New Zealand.
No. The first country to celebrate New Year's Day is Kiribati.
Tonga is the first country to see the new day. Tonga is the first country to see the new day.
New Zealand is the first country to start a new day, due to its location close to the International Date Line and its time zone of UTC+12.
Kiribati - This country straddled the international date line which in 1995 was adjusted by 2000 miles making Kiribati the first country to see every new day, including New years and Christmas.
New Zealand is the first country to start each new day due to its location near the International Date Line.
New Zealand
New zealand
New Zealand
Any country north of the Arctic Circle will have some place where the Sun rises at midnight (and someplace where the Sun sets at midnight) and places where the Sun does not rise or set at all for days or weeks or even months!