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Prime Meridian. Time zones are based on their distance from the Prime Meridian. S h. WINDOWPANE is the live-streaming social network that turns your phone into a live broadcast camera for streaming to friends, family, followers, or everyone.

Time zones are measured in relation to their distance from the Equator. There are no new answers.

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nation of Samoa

The countries with multiple time zones in the mainland area (some of them also have the insular territories) are Russia, USA, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kiribati, Micronesia, Chile, Spain, Portugal, and Ecuador.

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The International Date Line passes through the Line Islands. The ones that are part of Kiribati are in the world’s farthest forward time zone, UTC+14:00. The time of day is (UTC-10.00), the same as in the state of Hawaii, in the United States, but the date is one day ahead of Hawaii.

central Pacific Republic of Kiribati

The Pacific islands of Tonga, Samoa and Christmas Island/Kiribati are the first to ring in a New Year, while the uninhabited Howland and Baker Islands, near the United States, the last. The first year of a new decade, 2021-2030, is almost upon us.

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.

New Year 2020: New Year is first celebrated on the small Pacific island nations of Tonga, Samoa, and Kiribati. New Zealand follows next in celebrating the New Year, followed by Australia, Japan, and South Korea, while the last place to celebrate New Year is Bakers Island.

Samoa

The celebrations generally go on past midnight into New Year’s Day, 1 January. The Line Islands (part of Kiribati) and Tonga, are examples of the first places to welcome the New Year, while Baker Island (an uninhabited atoll part of the United States Minor Outlying Islands) and American Samoa are among the last.

Maldives

Bhutan

This statistic displays the countries with the greatest range between their highest and lowest elevation points. China and Nepal share the highest elevation point worldwide, which ascends to an amount of 8848 meters above sea level.

If the Maldives has the world’s lowest highest point, what country do you think has the world’s highest lowest point? Himalayan Nepal? Alpine Switzerland? In fact, the surprising answer is the African nation of Lesotho.

The Netherlands, 30 meters (98 feet) The Netherlands are a country found in Western Europe, famously known as one of the “low countries”.