New Year festival: Quick Facts

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New Year celebration in Times Square

Assyrian Christian celebrants in traditional clothing march outdoors, carrying Assyrian flags, with a drummer and a man playing a wind instrument during Aketo New Year in Dohuk, Iraq.

A woman in a pink headscarf sits beside a haft-sin table set with symbolic items for Nowruz in a tiled garden area near a fountain in Tehran, Iran.

Traditional Ugadi festive arrangement with a bowl of pachadi, mango, banana, spices, flowers, and leaves, symbolizing the flavors of life for the Telugu New Year in India.

Two Jewish men wearing yarmulkes and tallitot, one blowing a shofar and the other holding a prayer book, praying during Rosh Hashana in Uman, Ukraine.

Traditions of the Chinese New Year

Celebrating Songkran, Thailand's Water Festival

Group of people celebrating the New Year with streamers.

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