WOW...........New Zealand celebrates New Year as country enters 2020

New Zealand is one of the first countries to observe the New Year, on January 1. New Year’s Day and the Day after the New Year are public holidays throughout the country.

New Zealand has welcomed in the new year - and decade - in spectacular style across the country, including a huge fireworks display in Auckland.

Revellers gathered in force and colour in our biggest cities - including Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin - and summer hotspots such as Coromandel, Raglan, Gisborne, Taupo, Nelson, Queenstown and Wanaka.

In Auckland, thousands gathered at vantage points to see the fireworks alight from the Sky Tower and where, for the first time, lasers and animations accompanied the display to take New Zealand into 2020.

New Year celebrations were in full swing at Federal St in Auckland's CBD, as the fireworks exploded from the Sky Tower.

Others gathered at Silo Park, Bastion Pt and Mt Eden while on the North Shore, Bayswater Marina, Devonport's Mt Victoria and Queens Parade offered brilliant vantage points, along with Harbour View Beach Reserve on the Te Atatū Peninsula.

A new decade has officially arrived as Australia and Japan celebrate New Year 2020 alongside a host of other countries across the world.
The south Pacific island nation Samoa was the first to mark the new year at 10am GMT, followed by New Zealand at 11am GMT.

The country welcomed the New Year with fireworks over the Auckland Sky Tower.
China, North Korea, Singapore, Dubai, South Korea and Japan also celebrated the New Year while parts of Russia and Indonesia have also entered the new decade.

As people in the UK tuck into their breakfast, the clock has already struck midnight on the other side of the world. New Zealand has officially entered 2020, becoming the second place in the world to enter the new decade. New Year’s Eve parties have been in full swing across the South Pacific, where Samoa welcomed in the new year at 10am GMT In New Zealand, which is 13 hours ahead, celebrations are underway across the county with fireworks and street parades taking place in major cities. Pictures show partygoers gathered in Auckland as they await the final count down. It comes after a tough year for the country which faced a number of tragedies in 2019.

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