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This is probably going to be the most exciting New Years you’ll ever experience. In 2 days, we’ll be entering into a new year, a new century and a new millennium! This won’t happen again for another 1000 years, something your great, great, great, great grandchildren might witness. But lucky for us, we get to see this amazing change.

However, depending on where you live, you’ll be experiencing the change of the New Year at a different time than other people around the world. Let’s take a look at when other people will be toasting the New Year. Get out your globe or atlas to find these places around the world.

The times we list are the times it will be for places in the Pacific Standard Time zone like California. So, if we put 4 am, it means it will be 4 am in California when these places bring in the New Year.

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4 am the first people will ring in 2000 in Petropavlosk, New Zealand, Fiji and Guam

6 am Vladiovstak, Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania will celebrate

1 pm Moscow, Iraq, Kenya, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia

3 pm France, Holland, Denmark, Libya, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Italy

4 pm England, Ireland, Portugal, Scotland, Ghana, Iceland, Greenwich*

9 pm New York, Miami, Columbia, Peru, Montreal, Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica

10 pm Mexico City, Chicago, Winnipeg, Costa Rica, Galapagos Islands

11 pm Boise, Mazatlan, Calgary

12 am Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Guadalupe

1 am Marquesas Islands, Alaska

2 am Hawaii, Aleutian Islands

3 am Midway Island, Roosevelt Island, Western Samoa