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It takes a day to start a new year.
At 12:00 on December 31, Kiev time, the New Year 2022 came to planet Earth . The inhabitants of the Line Islands in the Pacific Ocean, as well as part of Kiribati in Polynesia, met him first.
It takes a day for the whole planet to start a new year. Every hour, and sometimes every half hour, the New Year comes in different countries – from East to West. The last to be met on January 1 at 13:00 by the inhabitants of Samoa – an island country in Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean.