Olympics opening ceremony order as Parade of Nations takes to the Seine
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The 2024 Paris Olympic Games' opening ceremony will go where no other opening ceremony has gone before: on a river.
The 2024 Games will officially begin in just hours with its opening ceremony down the Seine scheduled for July 26 at 1:30 p.m. ET. All participating nations will have a delegation "march" in the ceremony's traditional Parade of Nations. This year, that means 205 countries will have representation in the parade.
As has been the case for previous Olympics opening ceremonies, Greece will lead the procession, followed by the Refugee Olympic Team. France, as the host nation, will be the final country represented in the parade and is immediately preceded by the hosts of the next two Summer Games: Australia (2032) before the United States (2028).
All 200 countries in between are ordered alphabetically based on their country's name in French.
Here is the full order for the 2024 Paris Games' Parade of Nations.
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2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony Order
- Greece
- Refugee Olympic Team
- Afghanistan
- South Africa
- Albania
- Algeria
- Germany
- Andorra
- Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Saudi Arabia
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Aruba
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cayman Islands
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chile
- China
- Cyprus
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Republic of the Congo
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Cook Islands
- South Korea
- Costa Rica
- Ivory Coast
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
- Dominica
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- United Arab Emirates
- Ecuador
- Eritrea
- Spain
- Estonia
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Finland
- Gabon
- The Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Great Britain
- Grenada
- Guam
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Equatorial Guinea
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Iceland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kyrgyzstan
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- North Macedonia
- Madagascar
- Malaysia
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Morocco
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Norway
- New Zealand
- Oman
- Uganda
- Uzbekistan
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Palestine
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Netherlands
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Puerto Rico
- Portugal
- Qatar
- North Korea
- Romania
- Rwanda
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- San Marino
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Solomon Islands
- Samoa
- American Samoa
- São Tomé and Prínicipe
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Suriname
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Chinese Taipei
- Tanzania
- Chad
- Czech Republic
- Thailand
- East Timor
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Turkey
- Tuvalu
- Ukraine
- Uruguay
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- British Virgin Islands
- Virgin Islands
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Australia
- United States
- France
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