
The first place to see Sunrise each day.
Samoa is on the same side as Australia and New Zealand.
America Samoa is on the ‘other side’ with Hawaii and the rest of the United States.
Have you traveled somewhere and changed your clocks because you crossed in to another time zone?
Imagine, instead of moving the time just one hour or two, you also changed the day.
On a cruise ship, we change the time, officially, at 2 am. So we went to sleep on a Friday and woke up on Sunday!
It is because of this invisible line made by humans called the International Date Line that American Samoa has the first Sunrise each day, and Samoa the last.

the last place to see Sunrise each day.
The countries are approximately 140 miles and 24 hours apart.