New Year's celebrations in Sydney (Photo: Reuters)
Every year, the entrance of the new civil year is celebrated around the world, with the entrance time changing in each time zone.
Which countries will welcome 2023 first and which will start the celebrations after them all?
It is generally believed that the first to celebrate the arrival of the New Year are the inhabitants of Australia, but there are those who precede them, and these are the inhabitants of Christmas Island and a chain of other islands, most of them uninhabited, located in the center of the Pacific Ocean.
In these islands, the new year will come in at 12:00 noon on Saturday, according to Israel time.
This, despite the fact that Christmas Island lies just south of Hawaii - where the New Year begins a day later.
New Year's Eve celebrations in Tel Aviv (Photo: Reuven Castro)
An hour later - 13:00 Israel time - the tiny island of Tonga in the Pacific Ocean will usher in the new year, along with New Zealand and Samoa.
Just two hours later, Sydney in eastern Australia will also celebrate the arrival of 2023. The
last to celebrate the beginning of the year are Baker Island and Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean, both uninhabited, where 2023 will begin at 14:00 on Sunday according to Israel time.
Two hours earlier this year will come together in the Hawaiian Islands, and two hours earlier, at 10:00 Israel time, this year will come together in the state of California in the western United States.
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