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New Zealand gets sunlight first in the world when reckoning from the standard, defined location of the International Date Line. _____________ There is some controversy over this, but the island nation of Kiribati (pronounced roughly ka-REE-bas) modified the International Date Line so that all of Kiribati falls to the west of the line. This is a very large diversion of the line, and many saw this as a rather disingenuous attempt to gain commercial advantage. As a result of this line shift, Caroline Island, the eastern-most part of Kiribati at the same longitude as Anchorage Alaska (150 degrees West), "became" the "first" place on earth to get the light of January 1 2000, considered (erroneously) by many to be the first day of the new milennium. There is no international law governing the actual location of the date line, and nations affected by it are free to define it so that all of its territory is on one side or the other. Kiribati could as easily have defined itself as being to the east of the line, and it would have been a smaller and more generally acceptable shift.
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∙ 13y agoSince the earth doesn't stop and start, one needs a scenario to answer your question.
One way to think about this question is to position yourself at the International Date Line (roughly 180° longitude) and consider that the earth measures the dawn of a new day along that line.
In this case, Russia just east of the Bering Strait is the first to be touched by the sun that day.
However, Japan names itself as the 'Land of the Rising Sun'.
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