New year celebrations are likely to be a bit more muted this year amid concerns over the spread of the Omicron Covid variant.
London’s famous fireworks have already been cancelled for the second year in a row.
While celebrations may not be back to pre-pandemic scales, there is no doubt many people across the world will still be ringing in 2022 with a sense of cheer and hopefulness.
But just who will get to see in 2022 first?
The first country – or countries – in the world to mark New Year will actually be the small Pacific Island nations of Tonga, Samoa and Kiribati/Christmas Island.
They’ll be ringing in the new year at 10am GMT, sparking off a day’s worth of celebrations around the globe.
Next in line will be New Zealand, who’ll say hello to 2022 at around 10.15am GMT.
There will be toned down fireworks across the world this year (Picture: Getty)
As it stands the UK will be one of the last countries to celebrate the New Year – and we’ll do so at the same time as Ireland, Iceland, Ghana and Portugal, and an hour later than most of Europe.
However, that won’t be the end of New Year celebrations, as North and South America will be the final part of the world to see 2022.
The last place which will welcome the New Year will be Baker Island and Howland Island, two unoccupied US Islands in the Pacific – but the last occupied territory to celebrate January 1 will be American Samoa at 11am GMT tomorrow morning.
Ref: https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/31/2022-what-is-the-first-country-to-celebrate-the-new-year-15776774
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