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The Guardian: Follow all the celebrations as the clock strikes midnight and countries see out 2018 to welcome in 2019!
Happy New Year 2019: As we bid adieu to 2018, celebrations around the world have already begun to usher in 2019. In Auckland, New Zealand’s biggest city, tens of thousands gathered around Sky Tower as fireworks exploded from the top of the 328-meter (1,076-foot) structure. Across the southern hemisphere nation, thousands took to beaches and streets, becoming the first major nation in the world to usher in 2019.
New Year 2019 Sydney, Australia
The New Year has been welcomed in in Hong Kong.
New Year celebrations are working their way across other countries, including North Korea. Reuters have been streaming events in the DPRK here:
WATCH: New Year celebrations in Japan, North Korea
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WATCH: Fireworks at Austrlia's Sydney harbour
Asian cities start to ring in the new year a few hours after Sydney's dazzling fireworks display over the harbour.
Fireworks explode over Victoria Harbour during New Year celebrations in Hong Kong.
Samoa has become the first country to ring in 2019 with a traditional South Pacific knees-up. The island nation is in the midst of a huge bash with traditional dancers and jugglers throwing flames high into the air.
Thanks to Samoa and Kiribati's positions - immediately west of the International Date Line - the two Polynesian destinations, which are roughly halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand, get to be first in line to greet the coming year.
The most interesting thing about Samoan celebrations is taking a one-hour flight to American Samoa, which is on the other side of the date line, could mean celebrating the New Year twice - one day later.
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New Year 2019 Celebration Photos!
The new year fireworks light up Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Photograph: Scott Barbour\City of Sydney/Getty Images
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The Sydney Opera House in during the midnight display.
Photograph: Brett Hemmings\City of Sydney/Getty Images
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Photograph: Brett Hemmings\City of Sydney/Getty Images
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Girls prepare to welcome the New Year in Amritsar in India.
Photograph: Raminder Pal Singh/EPA
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Artists perform on stilts at a New Year festival in Bangkok, Thailand.
Photograph: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
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Skaters form a human chain in the shape of 2019 to welcome New Year,
at Ice Skating rink Lakkar Bazar in Shimla. (Express Photo by Pradeep Kumar)
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People participate in the annual New Year's dip in the harbour of Copenhagen, Denmark. (Photo: Reuters)
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Billboards welcome in the new year in New York's Times Square. (Photo: AP)
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People attend New Year's celebrations in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo: Ahn Young-joon/AP)
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People light candles at a Buddhist temple in Seoul. (Photo: Ahn Young-joon/AP)
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Fireworks light up the sky in front of the Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Photo: Yam G-Jun/AP)
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Members of the Kosatka DV winter-swimming club see out the old year in an ice hole in Russia. (Photo: Yuri Smityuk/TASS)
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Students stand in formation to show "2019" in India. (Photo: SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images)
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Fireworks explode over the Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong. (Photo: Kin Cheung/AP)
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Happy New Year 2019!