New Year’s Eve is celebrated in Times Square in the United States.
The New Year has come to America from New Zealand. The year 2025 was celebrated with great enthusiasm all over the world. The New Year was enthusiastically welcomed with fireworks at major venues across the country and abroad.
Light shows and powerful fireworks also took place in Times Square in the United States and at the Niagara Falls in Canada. Music concerts were also organized there. When the New Year arrived, people greeted each other with hugs and kisses in Times Square.
Around 2 million people took part in New Year’s Eve celebrations on Copacabana Beach in Brazil. New Year was also celebrated with great enthusiasm in European countries. Amid heavy rain in Britain, people came out to celebrate with umbrellas. On the other hand, the new year was also welcomed in war-torn Russia and Ukraine.
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Newly elected US President Trump does his signature dance with businessman Elon Musk.
The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, celebrated the New Year at Trump’s house, ‘Mar a Lago’.
Images of New Year celebrations in countries around the world…
America
A young man celebrating in the street during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square.
People dance in celebration in Times Square.
Canada
The New Year is celebrated with the lighting of the Niagara waterfall in Canada.
Brazil
Millions of people welcomed the new year with fireworks on Copacabana beach in the capital Rio.
A fireworks display and light show were staged near the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio.
Great Britain
Photo of fireworks to welcome the New Year on the London Eye Ferris wheel.
After rain in Britain, people came out of their homes with umbrellas to celebrate the New Year.
People take to the streets carrying torches and burning barrels during the Allendale Tar Barrel festival in northern England.
France
Photo of the New Year celebration on the famous Champs-Élysées avenue located in Paris, the capital of France.
Germany
Photo of the New Year celebration at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the capital of Germany.
Spain
In Spain, people participated in a grape-eating competition at midday for luck.
Laser show on Burj Khalifa, fireworks in Sydney Harbor
A spectacular laser show and fireworks were displayed at the UAE’s famous Burj Khalifa building. Despite the cold weather, Indians enthusiastically participated in the New Year celebrations. Before India, the New Year began in countries like China, Malaysia, Singapore and New Zealand.
According to Japanese tradition, bells were rung 108 times at Buddhist temples on New Year’s Day. New Year’s celebrations were severely limited after 179 people died in a plane crash in South Korea.
Nearly a million people gathered to watch traditional fireworks displays on Sydney Harbour, Australia. At the same time, a huge fireworks display took place on the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne to mark the New Year. Auckland, New Zealand, became the first major city to reach the year 2025.
In addition, the New Year was also celebrated in Syria for the first time after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad.
Syria
Thousands of people took part in New Year’s celebrations in Damascus, the Syrian capital.
Members of the HTS rebel group also arrived in Damascus, the Syrian capital, to celebrate the new year.
United Arab Emirates
The New Year was welcomed with a spectacular laser show and fireworks at the Burj Khalifa in the United Arab Emirates.
India
Indians enthusiastically participated in the New Year celebrations. Photo of welcoming the New Year in Mumbai.
Thailand
The New Year was welcomed with fireworks in Bangkok, the Thai capital.
Indonesia
Prambanan Temple in Indonesia celebrates the New Year with fireworks.
Singapore
The New Year was welcomed with great fanfare in Marina Bay, one of the most upscale neighborhoods in Singapore.
Hong Kong
2025 welcomed with fireworks in Hong Kong.
Japan
Happy New Year message on the Metropolitan Building in Tokyo, the capital of Japan.
Worshipers ring the bell at Tokudai-ji temple in Tokyo
Australia
Sydney Opera House in Australia. Here the New Year was welcomed in this style.
View of the Sydney Opera House. British singer Robbie Williams arrived here to perform.
The photo shows the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
New Zealand
As the clock struck noon, the fireworks began after a 10-second countdown at the Sky Tower in Auckland, New Zealand.
Sunita Williams to celebrate New Year 16 times Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams and her colleagues will see the sun rise and set 16 times on the International Space Station (ISS). Sunita Williams and her team are in Earth orbit at an altitude of approximately 400 kilometers. The ISS orbits the Earth every 90 minutes. So, on the night of December 31 to January 1, they will celebrate the New Year 16 times.
On the occasion of New Year, learn about the science of different eras in different countries and 6 strange customs to celebrate New Year… Being located in the easternmost part of the world, New Year is celebrated first in New Year Zeeland. In New Zealand, New Year comes 7.5 hours before India, while in America, New Year comes 9.5 hours later. So the New Year’s journey continues for 19 hours around the world.
The year changes as the Earth completes one revolution around the Sun. At the same time, when it rotates completely on its axis, there are days and nights. Due to the continuous rotation of the Earth on its axis, there is morning in some places, afternoon in some places, and night in some places. This is the reason why almost every country in the world has been divided into different time zones.
Why were there need for time zones? The clock was invented in the 16th century, but until the 18th century it was set according to the position of the sun. When the sun was above us, the clock struck twelve.
At first there was no problem due to different schedules in different countries, but later people started moving from one country to another within a few hours by train. Due to different schedules in different countries, people found it difficult to follow train schedules. For example, if a person left the station at 8 a.m., after 5 a.m. they would still have some time left in the country where they arrived.
In such a situation, Canadian Railways engineer Sir Sanford Fleming was the first to solve this problem. In fact, in 1876 he missed his train due to a different schedule. For this reason, he came up with the idea of creating different time zones in different regions of the world.
He talked about dividing the world into 24 time zones. The Earth rotates 360 degrees every 24 hours. This means 15 degrees every hour, which was considered the distance of one time zone. This created 24 equidistant periods across the world. The value of one degree is 4 minutes. This means that if your country is 60 degrees away from GMT, then 60X4 = 240 minutes, that is, there will be a difference of 4 hours in the time zone.
However, even after creating the time zones, the problem remained of who should be considered the center of the world when dividing the 24 time zones. To decide this, the International Prime Meridian Conference was convened in 1884. In this, Greenwich in England was chosen as the prime meridian. It was placed at 0 degrees on the map.
India’s time is 5.5 hours ahead of Britain’s. Currently, the entire world’s time zone is GMT, i.e. Greenwich Mean Time. In countries east of Greenwich, the time is ahead of Great Britain and behind if it is to the west. Just as India is five and a half hours ahead of Great Britain’s time, America, located to the west of Great Britain, is five hours behind Great Britain’s time. -Brittany.
The countries of the Oceanic continent are the most easterly of Great Britain. This includes New Zealand, Australia and Kiribati. This is why the New Year will be celebrated first in these countries. We’ll start with New Zealand, as it’s further east.
Where first it will be 12 o’clock and the new year will be welcomed. When the new year begins in New Zealand, it will be 4:30 p.m. on December 31 in India. This means that New Year will enter India 7.5 hours later than New Zealand, while it will take 19 hours to reach America. It will be there at 10:30 am on January 1 and 12:00 pm on December 31 according to Indian time.
Why was Greenwich chosen as GMT? Astronomical phenomena have long been studied in Greenwich. So Britain made this place the center of the time zone. At that time, Britain was the most powerful country in the world. It was also far ahead in trade and controlled most of the world’s territory. Most ships involved in maritime trade used British time.
Why doesn’t China celebrate the New Year with the world? China is one of those countries in the world where the New Year is not celebrated on January 1st. In fact, China is one of those countries that follows the lunisolar calendar instead of the solar calendar.
The lunisolar calendar has 12 months and each month is considered complete when the Moon makes one revolution around the Earth. The Moon completes one revolution around the Earth in 29 days and a few hours.
In China, New Year is celebrated on the 30th day of the 12th month. He is called Danian Sanshi in China. This year, the New Year will be celebrated in China on January 29. Meanwhile, people give each other red colored cards. Additionally, during this time, ancestor worship and family dinner, as well as dragon and lion dance are also held.
Not only China, but major countries like Vietnam, South Korea, North Korea and Mongolia also celebrate this holiday with different traditions.
Strange ways to celebrate the New Year around the world
As soon as midnight strikes on December 31, the whole world welcomes the New Year, but have you ever wondered why the year begins on January 1? The reason for this is considered to be the dictator of the Roman Empire, Julius Caesar.
Caesar made changes to the calendar 2066 years ago to teach corrupt rulers a lesson. After that, the whole world started celebrating the New Year on January 1st.
After all, what happened that Caesar had to change the calendar, when was the New Year first celebrated?