Although each country waits its turn to celebrate the arrival of the New YearWe know that there are very remote places that celebrate it when we have not even woken up on December 31 in Mexico City.
That’s right, because those places are 20 hours apart, with a very different time zone that at times makes us think that they live a bit in the future with respect to us.
Geographers, physicists and experts in time measurement ordered the global chronometer by drawing imaginary boundaries between the North and South Poles, and making calculations of the passage of each parallel on the date change lines, that is, when midnight indicates the I pass from one day to the next. In this way, when the planet revolves around this strip, the date is changed.
Christmas island
To take into account, in Oceania are the two sites that welcome the new year first. These are the islands of Kiritimati (also known as Christmas Island) and Samoa. The Economist.net.
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The island of Kiritimati is a coral sanctuary, with 388 square kilometers, which in 2015 had just 6,456 inhabitants. This portion of land occupies 70% of Kiribati, a country made up of 3 archipelagos.
Kiritimati is located 232 kilometers north of the equator, 2,160 kilometers from Honolulu (Hawaii) and 5,360 kilometers from San Francisco, California.
It is followed by the island of Samoa, another Polynesian nation made up of 12 islands, of which 4 are inhabited. “When the clock marks the beginning of January 1 and the arrival of the New Year in Samoa and Kiritimati, in Mexico City, it is 4 in the morning on December 31,” the media quoted.
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It means that since dawn in our country, the New Year’s party has already traveled through many countries of the world and we only have to wait our turn adjusting to the local time.
Cascade of celebrations
Fifteen minutes following Samoa and Kiritimati, the New Year arrives in the Chatam Islands, belonging to New Zealand. “A part of Australia, which includes Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, celebrates 2 hours later, when it is 7 am on December 31 in Mexico City.”
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But just as there are the first places to celebrate the beginning of 2022, the last places that see it arrive are also identified. They are Niue and American Samoa.
Niue is a country with less than 2,000 inhabitants, while American Samoa is inhabited by 55,641 people. According to the review, there is a small distance between the first and last countries that receive the New Year, this is due to the international line of the date change that separates them one day in terms of their time zone.
Niue is only a 3 hour flight from Auckland, New Zealand. However, he receives the New Year practically a day later. A flight from Faleolo (Samoa) to Pago Pago (American Samoa) takes only 25 minutes, but the time difference is also a full day ”.
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