Majority 7,300 inhabitants of the remote island of Kiritimati, in the island nation of Kiribati, located in the South Pacific Ocean, there were the first people in the world to receive it in 2024.

Residents of this island who arrived on January 1 at 4 a.m. December 31, 2023 Central Mexico time, They are followed approximately 15 minutes later by citizens of the New Zealand territory of the Chatham Islands.and in an hour it will be the turn of Tonga, Samoa and the main cities of New Zealand.

In Auckland, the first big city to traditionally celebrate the New Year The countdown to the arrival of 2024 is carried out from the Celestial Tower. in the city center, followed by fireworks over the bay of the New Zealand capital.

In an hour it’s New Year’s Eve Fiji, Tuvalu, Nauru and other Kiribati islands, as well as the Chukotka region, in the far northeast of Russia.

Although some major Australian cities such as Sydney, Melbourne or Canberra will receive 2024. at 6 a.m. this Sunday (Central Mexico time).

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Around a million people are expected to flock to Sydney Harbour, the self-proclaimed “New Year’s capital of the world”. witness the eight tons of fireworks that will light the fuse for 2024.

(according to information from EFE And Aristegui News)