Kiribati
| “ | It's "ki-ruh-bass", not "ki-ri-ba-ti". | ” |
Kiribati is a Pacific island country and the first to ring in the new year. It is said you can easily jaunt from London to Paris to Poland and onto... Banana? All that within a day, and it's in one of Kiribati's islands, Kiritimati.
Diplomatic relations
Kiribati is close friends with Cuba because of Cuban doctors who helped reduce the infant mortality rate by 80%.