Here’s the Order of Countries at the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony

(Bloomberg)—After the opening ceremony on the Tokyo Olympics final summer season, NBC, the official broadcaster of the occasion within the U.S., reported some viewers have been “confused” on the order by which the groups entered.
That’s as a result of the collaborating groups didn’t enter based on the English alphabetical order, however by the order set within the Japanese language. That meant Iceland entered second after Greece, which all the time comes first in what’s often known as the Parade of Nations because it’s the historic founding nation of the Olympics.
Issues get rather more difficult on the coming winter video games in China, nonetheless, because the Chinese language language doesn’t have an alphabet. As a substitute, indexing within the language for the opening ceremony is finished based on stroke order, which arranges phrases based mostly on what number of strokes the primary character of the phrase has, after which the order by which the strokes are written—the straight horizontal stroke comes earlier than the straight vertical stroke, for instance.
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Within the 2008 Beijing Olympics, that meant Guinea and Guinea Bissau entered after Greece, as the primary character of their simplified Chinese language (the system utilized in mainland China) names have simply two strokes. Turkey adopted in fourth place, as the primary character in its title in Chinese language has three strokes.
The host nation enters final, and is preceded by the host of the next video games. On the upcoming winter video games, meaning Italy will march within the penultimate spot. In the meantime, the Chinese language Taipei delegation, as Taiwan is thought on the Olympics, will likely be attending the occasion, reversing an earlier choice after the IOC mentioned it was required to take part, the island’s Olympic committee mentioned in an announcement Monday.
The alphabetical order isn’t set in stone, although. On the winter video games in Pyeongchang, South Korea in 2018, some groups entered out of the order dictated by the Korean alphabet, probably on account of political sensitivities. For instance, Iran and Israel have been separated by Italy within the opening ceremony in opposition to alphabetical order. A spokesperson for the Worldwide Olympic Committee mentioned in an announcement the choice to change the order “was taken on the time to mirror the suitable protocols,” with out elaborating.
On the upcoming winter video games, Israel, which marched earlier than Japan in 2008 in Beijing, will enter after Pakistan and earlier than Timor-Leste. The Russian Olympic Committee, which, by the identical Chinese language stroke order, ought to enter between Bulgaria and the U.S., is marching in earlier earlier than France.
Right here is the order by which 91 groups will march in on the Winter Olympics based on an inventory supplied by the IOC shortly earlier than the beginning of the occasion.
1 | Greece 希腊 |
2 | Turkey 土耳其 |
3 | Malta 马耳他 |
4 | Madagascar 马达加斯加 |
5 | Malaysia 马来西亚 |
6 | Ecuador 厄瓜多尔 |
7 | Eritrea 厄立特里亚 |
8 | Jamaica 牙买加 |
9 | Belgium 比利时 |
10 | Japan 日本 |
11 | Chinese language Taipei 中华台北 |
12 | Hong Kong, China 中国香港 |
13 | Denmark 丹麦 |
14 | Ukraine 乌克兰 |
15 | Uzbekistan 乌兹别克斯坦 |
16 | Brazil 巴西 |
17 | Pakistan 巴基斯坦 |
18 | Israel 以色列 |
19 | Timor-Leste 东帝汶 |
20 | North Macedonia 北马其顿 |
21 | Luxembourg 卢森堡 |
22 | Belarus 白俄罗斯 |
23 | India 印度 |
24 | Lithuania 立陶宛 |
25 | Nigeria 尼日利亚 |
26 | Ghana 加纳 |
27 | Canada 加拿大 |
28 | San Marino 圣马力诺 |
29 | Kyrgyzstan 吉尔吉斯斯坦 |
30 | Armenia 亚美尼亚 |
31 | Spain 西班牙 |
32 | Liechtenstein 列支敦士登 |
33 | Iran 伊朗 |
34 | Hungary 匈牙利 |
35 | Iceland 冰岛 |
36 | Andorra 安道尔 |
37 | Finland 芬兰 |
38 | Croatia 克罗地亚 |
39 | Saudi Arabia 沙特 |
40 | Albania 阿尔巴尼亚 |
41 | Argentina 阿根廷 |
42 | Azerbaijan 阿塞拜疆 |
43 | Latvia 拉脱维 |
44 | Nice Britain 英国 |
45 | Romania 罗马尼亚 |
46 | Russian Olympic Committee 俄罗斯奥林匹克委员会 |
47 | France 法国 |
48 | Poland 波兰 |
49 | Puerto Rico波多黎各 |
50 | Bosnia and Herzegovina 波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那 |
51 | Bolivia 玻利维亚 |
52 | Norway 挪威 |
53 | Kazakhstan 哈萨克斯坦 |
54 | Kosovo 科索沃 |
55 | Bulgaria 保加利亚 |
56 | United States of America 美国 |
57 | American Samoa 美属萨摩亚 |
58 | Virgin Islands 美属维尔京群岛 |
59 | Thailand 泰国 |
60 | Netherlands 荷兰 |
61 | Georgia 格鲁吉亚 |
62 | Colombia 哥伦比亚 |
63 | Trinidad and Tobago 特立尼达和多巴哥 |
64 | Peru 秘鲁 |
65 | Eire 爱尔兰 |
66 | Estonia 爱沙尼亚 |
67 | Haiti 海地 |
68 | Czech Republic 捷克共和国 |
69 | Philippines 菲律宾 |
70 | Slovenia 斯诺文尼亚 |
71 | Slovakia 斯洛伐克 |
72 | Portugal 葡萄牙 |
73 | South Korea 韩国 |
74 | Montenegro 黑山 |
75 | Chile 智利 |
76 | Austria 奥地利 |
77 | Switzerland 瑞士 |
78 | Sweden 瑞典 |
79 | Mongolia 蒙古 |
80 | New Zealand 新西兰 |
81 | Serbia 塞尔维亚 |
82 | Cyprus 塞浦路斯 |
83 | Mexico 墨西哥 |
84 | Lebanon 黎巴嫩 |
85 | Germany 德国 |
86 | Moldova 摩尔多瓦共和国 |
87 | Monaco 摩纳哥公国 |
88 | Morocco 摩洛哥王国 |
89 | Australia 澳大利亚 |
90 | Italy 意大利 |
91 | China 中华人民共和国 |