New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve is the holiday before New Year's Day, on December 31, the last day of the current year.
Today, Western countries usually celebrate this day with a party which ends with a group countdown to midnight. Party hats, noisemakers, fire crackers and drinking champagne are fairly common during this holiday.
Many towns also have firework shows or other noisy ways to start the new year. Places like Berlin, Chicago, Edinburgh, Los Angeles, London, New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Toronto, and Tokyo are well known for their New Year's Eve celebrations.
New Year's Eve is also a work holiday in some countries, such as Australia, Argentina, Brazil, France, Mexico, the Philippines, and Venezuela.
New Year's Eve Media
Casablanca fireworks display
Countries where the main celebrations of the New Year are on a day other than 1 January
New year celebration in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Fireworks display in Hong Kong to ring in 2010.
Tokyo Tower on New Year's Eve, 2012
Fireworks in George Town, Penang on 1 January 2018
Fireworks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Fireworks display in Manila Bay in front of the SM Mall of Asia
A midnight fireworks show in Marina Bay, Singapore, welcoming 2012.
(video) Celebrations in 2014
Midnight at Red Square in 2012.
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