About 80,000 people attended the annual Hogmanay party in Edinburgh, where the crowd erupted in cheers as the clock struck midnight.
An estimated 250,000 people watched the eight-minute firework display at the London Eye, which was set to music for the first time.
Events were held in various other cities, including Glasgow and Cardiff whilst in Edinburgh the Hogmanay festival lasts four days and got under way on Thursday with a torchlight procession.
Around the world, it was the tiny Pacific island nation of Kiribati that was the first to welcome in the new year at 1000 GMT. Celebrations across Asia and Australasia followed, New Zealand - the first major country to see in 2011.
In Hong Kong, hundreds of thousands of people gathered along Victoria Harbour to watch fireworks explode from the roofs of the city's most prominent buildings.
At the Zojoji temple in central Tokyo, Japan, monks chanted as visitors packed in to count down until midnight. Thousands released a mass of silver balloons carrying notes with their hopes for the future.
And in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, fireworks formed the shape of a dragon spiralling up the tallest skyscraper during the country's biggest-ever display - which cost $2m (£1.3m), and marked the beginning of year 100 on the Taiwan calendar.
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