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The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, [ 1] is a continental multi-sport event held every fourth year among athletes from all over Asia. The Games were regulated by the Asian Games Federation (AGF) from the first Games in New Delhi, India in 1951, until the 1978 Games. Since the 1982 Games, they have been organized by the Olympic Council of Asia ...
MYA: Myanmar was known as Burma (BIR) between 1951 and 1982. SRI: Sri Lanka was known as Ceylon (CEY) between 1951 and 1970. TPE: Chinese Taipei was known as Republic of China (ROC) between 1954 and 1970. VIE: Vietnam first competed in the Asian Games in 1954 as State of Vietnam, after the Partition of Vietnam only South Vietnam (VNM) as the ...
As of 2024, a large majority of the Games (41 out of 54) have been hosted in western Europe, the United States, Canada, or Australia. Eight Games have been hosted in Asia (all in East Asia), three have been hosted in eastern Europe, and two have been hosted in Latin America. Africa has yet to host an Olympic Games.
Participating nations at the opening ceremony of the 1908 Games in London. Early Games were not clearly documented with respect to participating nations. Competitors from 11 to 16 nation participated in the inaugural 1896 Games, in Athens. Eleven nations ( Australia, Austria, Denmark, Great Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Sweden ...
This is a list of best-selling game consoles by region. This page consists of countries in Asia, North America, Europe, and other regions, which all used different analog television color systems; these being NTSC, PAL and SECAM. PAL broadcast at 576i, in Europe and Asia.
This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as we know it – as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.
This is a list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present. [ 2]
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Greece, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkey all have territory in both Asia and Europe. Armenia and Cyprus are entirely in Western Asia but are socio-politically European countries and members of the Council of Europe, with Cyprus also being a member of the European Union. [citation needed] The division between Asia and Africa ...