Order of the countries entering New Year 2015

Ever wondered how time zones work on earth? Not all the countries on earth enter the New Year together. When the country on the farthest time zone enters new year, the country at the beginning of the time zone is still waiting for the sun to come up on the 31st Dec.

I was just reading stuff online and so I thought of making a list of places which will enter the New Year 2015 in order. The list is below.

01. FIRST to enter New Year 2015 Samoa (Apia), Kiribati- Christmas Isl, Kiritimati Samoa (Apia) or Kiritimati, are the first places on earth to enter the new year.	UTC+14
02. SECOND to enter New Year 2015 Chatham Islands- New Zealand	UTC+13:45
03. THIRD to enter New Year 2015 New Zealand- Wellington, Tokelau, Fiji, Tonga, Antarctica-South Pole, McMurdo, Skott stations; Kiribati- Phoenix Islands; Russian ship Akademik Shokalskiy (UTC+13)	UTC+13
04. Russia- Chukotka, Kamchatka, Russia- Magadan ; Nauru, Tuvalu, Marshall Isl., Wallis and Futuna, Kiribati- Tarawa	UTC+12
05. Norfolk Island (Kingston)- Australia	UTC+11:30
06. Australia- Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Hobart; Solomon Isl., New Caledonia, Micronesia- Pohnpei, Vanuatu;Russia- Vladivostok , Khabarovsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Yuzhno-Kurilsk, Birobidzhan, Komsomolsk-na-Amure;	UTC+11
07. Australia- Adelaide	UTC+10:30
08. Guam; Russia- Chita , Yakutsk, Blagoveschensk, Mirnyi, Tiksi ; Australia- Brisbane; Papua New Guinea, Northern Mariana Isl.	UTC+10
09. Australia- Darwin, Alice Springs	UTC+09:30
10. Japan- Tokyo, South Korea, North Korea; Russia-Irkutsk , Bratsk, Ulan-Ude ; Palau, Indonesia- Jayapura, Ambon; East Timor	UTC+09
11. Eucla- Western Australia	UTC+08:45
12. China- Beijing, Shanghai, Macau, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia-Bali, Mongolia, Brunei Darussalam, Russia-Krasnoyarsk , Abakan, Kyzyl ; Australia- Perth, more ...	UTC+08
13. Thailand- Bangkok, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia- Java, Sumatra; Australia- Christmas Isl., Russia- Novosibirsk , Omsk, Tomsk, Barnaul, Kemerovo;	UTC+07
14. Myanmar (Burma)- Yangon, Cocos Island (Keeling Islands - Australia)	UTC+06:30
15. Russia- Yekaterinburg , Chelyabinsk, Perm, Ufa, Kurgan, Orengurg, Tyumen; Bangladesh- Dhaka; Bhutan; British Indian Ocean Territory- Chagos- Diego Garcia, Kazakhstan- Almaty, Astana, Kyrgystan	UTC+06
16. Nepal- Kathmandu	UTC+05:45
17. India- New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata; Sri Lanka	UTC+05:30
18. Pakistan- Islamabad, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan-Aqtau, Aqtobe, Maldives, Kerguelen Isl.(Fr.)	UTC+05
19. Afghanistan- Kabul, Kandahar	UTC+04:30
20. Russia- Moscow , St.Petersburg, Novgorod, Smolensk, Pskov, Vladimir, Penza, Volgograd, Samara, Izhevsk;United Arab Emirates- Dubai, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Seychelles, Reunion- France, Oman, Mauritius	UTC+04
21. Iran- Tehran, Isfahan	UTC+03:30
22. Iraq- Baghdad; Russia- Kaliningrad ; Belarus- Minsk ; Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Yemen, Qatar, Madagascar, Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Comoros, Uganda, more ...	UTC+03
23. Ukraine- Kiev, Jordan , Greece, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Israel, Gaza Strip, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Turkey, Libya , South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda, Namibia, Mozambique more ...	UTC+02
24. France-Paris, Germany, Serbia, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Malta, Monaco, Sweden, Switzerland, Gibraltar, Czech Republic, Denmark, Algeria, Angola, Austria, Belgium, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Croatia, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tunisia, Vatican City, more ...	UTC+01
25. United Kingdom-London, Portugal, Ireland, Iceland, Canary Isl., Morocco, Cote d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Saint Helena, Western Sahara, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, more ...	UTC
26. Cape Verde- Praia, Azores (Port.), Greenland- Ittoqqortoormiit	UTC-01
27. Brazil- Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazilia; Fernando de Noronha; Uruguay, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	UTC-02
28. Chile-Santiago, Argentina- Buenos Aires, Ushuaia; Brazil- Recife; Salvador-Brazil; Paraguay, Suriname, French Guiana, Greenland- Nuuk, U.K.- Falkland Isl.	UTC-03
29. Canada- Newfoundland and Labrador (St. John's)	UTC-03:30
30. Canada - Nova Scotia (Halifax), New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island; Barbados, Bermuda (U.K.), Netherlands Antilles, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, Manaus- Brazil, Bolivia, more ...	UTC-04
31. Venezuela - Caracas	UTC-04:30
32. USA- New York, Washington D.C., Miami, Boston, Atlanta, Detroit, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Virginia Beach; Canada- Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec; Cuba-Havana, Peru; Acre-Brazil ; Colombia, Bahamas, Jamaica, Ecuador, Panama, more ...	UTC-05
33. USA- Chicago, New Orleans, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Oklahoma City, Houston, Dallas, Milwaukee; Canada- Winnipeg, Regina; Mexico- Mexico City, Acapulco, Veracruz; Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Belize, Costa Rica, more ...	UTC-06
34. USA- Denver, Albuquerque, El Paso, Salt Lake City, Santa Fe, Phoenix, Tucson; Canada- Calgary, Edmonton, Aklavik, Yellowknife; Mexico- Chihuahua, Mazatlan, more ...	UTC-07
35. USA- Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, San Jose, Las Vegas, Portland-OR; Canada- Vancouver, Whitehorse; Mexico- Tijuana, Mexicali; U.K. - Pitcairn	UTC-08
36. USA- Anchorage, Fairbanks, Nome, Unalaska, Juneau; French Polynesia- Gambier Islands	UTC-09
37. French Polynesia- Marquesas Islands (Nuku Hiva, Hiva Oa)	UTC-09:30
38. USA- Hawaii (Honolulu), Adak-Aleutian Isl.; Cook Islands (Rarotonga), French Polynesia-Tahiti (Papeete)	UTC-10
39. LAST to enter New Year 2015 And the last places to enter the new year are - American Samoa- Pago Pago, Niue (Alofi), Midway Islands, Jarvis Isl., Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll	UTC-11

 

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