See photos from Auckland, New Zealand, where adults and children are happily ushering in 2023 with fireworks and cheers.
However, they are not the very first to celebrate a new year. It is namely the Line Islands in the Pacific Ocean, which partly belong to Kiribati but also to the United States.
26 hours after them, the New Year is celebrated in the American Baker-Howland Islands, and they are thus last out.
In the player above: The celebration from Auckland