Search giant Google dedicated a doodle to mark the new year's day 2020. The doodle shows Froggy-The Weather Frog looking at the rising sun as India and the world enter a new year and decade. The doodle is a hopeful start to a decade that provides opportunities and challenges galore to the world searching for answers. Happy New Year 2020 Greetings & HNY Wishes Images: WhatsApp Stickers, SMS, Facebook Quotes, GIF Greetings and Photos to Send on New Year’s Eve.

Froggy also features in all daily weather updates posted by the search engine giant. The year 2019 also marks the end of a decade. The year 2020 will also be a leap year. Kiribati is the first country to celebrate New Year. It is located Kiribati is an island nation in the central Pacific Ocean. Meanwhile, the last country to mark the onset of New Year is Baker Island. Happy New Year 2020 Wishes: WhatsApp Stickers, Facebook Greetings, GIF Images, SMS And Messages to Wish Family and Friends.

New Year's eve, preceding the new year celebrations, is one of the most-awaited festive events across the world. People cutting across the religious, social and economic divide gather on this occasion. On the intervening night of December 31 and January 1, societies in the developed nations as well as the third world, resort to heart-warming celebrations.

In conservative Christian societies, special prayers are also held as the New Year marks the first day of the Gregorian calendar. The day also marks the culmination of the holiday season in the West, which begins with Christmas, followed by Hanukkah celebrations and ends with the New Year's eve party.

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