RANKED: Every nation at the Beijing Winter Olympics by the number of athletes they have taken to China

Barnaby LaneFeb 4, 2022, 23:10 IST

Athletes from China make their entrance at the 2022 Winter Olympics.AP Photo/David J. Phillip

There are 91 teams and 2,871 individual athletes competing at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
19 nations have just one athlete in their team, while the largest team is the USA with 224.

1 — Albania, American Samoa, Cyprus, East Timor, Ecuador, Eritrea, Ghana, Haiti, India, Kyrgyzstan, Malta, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Virgin Islands.

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1 — Albania, American Samoa, Cyprus, East Timor, Ecuador, Eritrea, Ghana, Haiti, India, Kyrgyzstan, Malta, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Virgin Islands.

2 — Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mongolia, Puerto Rico, San Marino, Serbia, Trinidad and Tobago.

Team Luxembourg at the Beijing 2022 Opening Ceremony.Julian Finny/Getty Images

3 — Colombia, Hong Kong, Iran, Lebanon, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Portugal.

Team Monaco’s Arnaud Alessandria.Getty/Sean Haffey

4 — Chile, Mexico, Chinese Taipei, Thailand.

Mexican figure skater Donovan Carrillo.Getty/Miguel Medina

5 — Andorra, Greece, Iceland, Moldova.

Flag bearers Apostolos Angelis and Maria Ntanou of Team Greece.Getty/Alex Pantling

6 — Argentina, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica.

7 — Turkey.

Speed skater Furkan Akar (L) is one of four male athletes competing for Turkey in Beijing.Getty/Oliver Hardt

9 — Georgia.

Nino Tsiklauri of Team Georgia.Getty/Michael Kappeler

10 — Brazil.

11 — Croatia.

Team Croatia.Getty/Julian Finney

13 — Lithuania.

Deividas Kizala (R) of Lithuania.Getty/Atsushi Tomura

14 — Hungary, Spain.

16 — Bulgaria, New Zealand.

19 — Belgium.

Team Belgium’s Cesar Beauvais.Getty/Kevin Voigt

21 — Romania.

Romania has 21 athletes in Beijing.Getty/Jewel Samad

26 — Estonia.

Freestyle skier Kelly Sildaru.Getty/Sean Haffey

29 — Belarus.

Maxim Gustik is a Belarusian freestyle skier.Getty/Tom Pennington

34 — Kazakhstan.

41 — Netherlands.

Team Netherlands’ orange outfits were unmissable during the opening ceremony.Getty/Matthias Hangst

44 — Australia, Slovenia.

Team Australia.Getty/Manan Vatsyayana

45 — Ukraine.

Team Ukraine's Yulianna Tunytska.Getty/Daniel Mihailescu

50 — Great Britain, Slovakia.

57 — Poland.

Poland's flag bearer Zbigniew Brodka.Getty/Lillian Suwanrumpha

58 — Latvia.

Baiba Bendika of Latvia.Getty/Sven Hoppe

62 — Denmark.

Curler Madeleine Dupont (L) was Denmark’s flag bearer during the opening ceremony.Getty/Valery Sharifulin

64 — South Korea.

Kim Eunjung of Republic of Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.Getty/Jean Catuffe

83 — Norway.

86 — France.

95 — Finland.

106 — Austria.

Felix Leitner of Team Austria.Getty/Kevin Voigt

113 — Czech Republic.

Czech curler Tomas Paul.Getty/Mario Hommes

116 — Sweden.

118 — Italy.

Team Italy clearly enjoyed the opening ceremony.Getty/Lintao Zhang

124 — Japan.

Team Japan.Getty/David Ramos

149 — Germany.

Germany biathlete Benedikt Doll.Getty/Clive Rose

167 — Switzerland.

The Swiss women's national ice hockey team finished fifth at the 2018 games.GettyAFP

174 — China.

Zhi Ling and Suyuan Fan of Team China.Getty/Lintao Zhan

212 — Russian Olympic Committee.

ROC athletes arrive at the Olympic opening ceremony.AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

215 — Canada.

Athletes from Canada make their entrance at the 2022 Winter Olympics.AP Photo/David J. Phillip

224 — United States.

China re-created portions of the Great Wall as part of its Olympic slopestyle course

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RANKED: Every nation at the Beijing Winter Olympics by the number of athletes they have taken to China

1 — Albania, American Samoa, Cyprus, East Timor, Ecuador, Eritrea, Ghana, Haiti, India, Kyrgyzstan, Malta, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Virgin Islands.

2 — Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mongolia, Puerto Rico, San Marino, Serbia, Trinidad and Tobago.

3 — Colombia, Hong Kong, Iran, Lebanon, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Portugal.

4 — Chile, Mexico, Chinese Taipei, Thailand.

5 — Andorra, Greece, Iceland, Moldova.

6 — Argentina, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica.

7 — Turkey.

9 — Georgia.

10 — Brazil.

11 — Croatia.

13 — Lithuania.

14 — Hungary, Spain.

16 — Bulgaria, New Zealand.

19 — Belgium.

21 — Romania.

26 — Estonia.

29 — Belarus.

34 — Kazakhstan.

41 — Netherlands.

44 — Australia, Slovenia.

45 — Ukraine.

50 — Great Britain, Slovakia.

57 — Poland.

58 — Latvia.

62 — Denmark.

64 — South Korea.

83 — Norway.

86 — France.

95 — Finland.

106 — Austria.

113 — Czech Republic.

116 — Sweden.

118 — Italy.

124 — Japan.

149 — Germany.

167 — Switzerland.

174 — China.

212 — Russian Olympic Committee.

215 — Canada.

224 — United States.