The first country in the world to receive the new year, is....

We are accustomed to seeing firework transmissions in various countries at different times on 31 December.

The first place in the world to receive the new day is somewhere in the Antarctica, so it's the first place to receive the new year. But as the bears do not celebrate, that's not what interests us!

The first populated country to receive the new year is called Kiribati, and is a country made up of several islands in the Pacific Ocean.

But the first to have media coverage is the new Zealand soon followed by Australia, Japan, South Korea and North Korea