2008 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations
summer olympics parade nation part opening ceremony originating olympic game national team nation participating olympic game paraded behind national flag olympic stadium flag bearer athlete national delegation chosen represent athlete either national olympic committee national team announcer stadium read name marching nation french english official language olympics mandarin chinese music accompanying athlete marched stadium marshall island montenegro tuvalu debuted game serbia competed name first time summer olympics montenegro serbia previously one country state union serbia montenegro per tradition greece entered first spiritual home olympic game host country china entered last nation marched order host country languagethe simplified chinese chinese character alphabetical order national olympic committee sorted based stroke count specifically character fewer stroke march earlier australia 澳大利亚 marched zambia 赞比亚 澳 stroke 赞 stroke initial character number stroke stroke order two character grouped order 橫竖撇捺折 horizontalverticalleft fallingright fallingfold example yemen 也门 marched maldives 马尔代夫 也 three stroke order ㇆丨㇟ 马 three stroke order ㇕㇉㇐ multiple chinese source reported initial character number stroke second character would used however inaccurate chad 乍得 stroke count marched ghana 加纳 stroke count 乍 stroke order ㇒㇐丨㇐㇐ ordered front 加 stroke order ㇆㇓丨㇕㇐ stroke order group still initial character tie second character nation used excluding identical character tie occurred gambia 冈比亚 benin 贝宁 冈 four stroke order 丨㇆㇒㇏ 贝 four stroke order 丨㇕㇓㇏ second character used 比 stroke 宁 stroke gambia marched benin note differs gb strokebased order also us 橫竖撇捺折 system gb strokebased order comparison ㇆ ㇕ would tiebreaker ㇕ ordering ㇆ due fewer turn would caused 贝 ordered 冈 instead two character tying benin would marched gambia second character still number stroke stroke order group used example djibouti 吉布提 marched kyrgyzstan 吉尔吉斯斯坦 布 five stroke order ㇐㇒丨㇆丨 尔 five stroke order ㇒㇖㇚㇒㇔ third character still number stroke stroke order group used skip fourth character excluding identical character occurred u virgin island 美属维尔京群岛 marched american samoa 美属萨摩亚 since 维 萨 stroke ㇜ sorting behind ㇐ ignored 尔 stroke sort front 摩 stroke occur winter olympics stroke order group used throughout american samoa marched front u virgin island two nation ordered based different name macedonia marched thenprovisional designation former yugoslav republic macedonia 前南斯拉夫马其顿共和国 sorted macedonia 马其顿 mǎqídùn united arab emirate marched short name chinese 阿联酋 āliánqiú sorted full name 阿拉伯联合酋长国 ālābó liánhé qiúzhǎngguó three nation marched order olympics south korea 韩国 north korea 朝鲜民主主义人民共和国 marched one team korean unification flag however olympics negotiation failed political reason despite coincidence simplified chinese sort order would placed north korea immediately south korea since 韩 朝 stroke starting ㇐丨丨㇕ stroke country start organizing team left asis north korea refused march next south korea successfully requested moved three team later parade order south korea marched short name korea three parade language original sort order israel 以色列 ㇙㇔㇓㇏ would marched immediately palestine 巴勒斯坦 ㇕丨㇐㇟ instead marched team earlier apparently fiction 丨㇔㇓㇏ vanuatu 瓦努阿图 ㇐㇙㇈㇔ japan 日本 丨㇕㇐㇐ winter olympics palestine compete occur israel marched pakistan 巴基斯坦 start character palestine unknown reason tonga 汤加 marched andorra 安道尔 nation beginning 安 even though 汤 ㇔㇔㇀㇡㇒㇒ sort front 安 ㇔㇔㇖㇛㇒㇐ comparison zimbabwe 津巴布韦 marched front tunisia 突尼斯 expected circumstance 津 突 stroke begin comparison ㇔㇔㇀ ㇔㇔㇖ multiple source reported taiwan chinese taipei 中华台北 central african republic 中非 switched place prevent taiwan marching next hong kong 中国香港 inaccurate 非 丨㇐㇐㇐丨㇐㇐㇐ naturally ordered 国 丨㇕㇐㇐丨㇐㇔㇐ taiwan originally requested march 台 tái zaobao reported contingency plan set central african republic athlete arrive opening ceremony bocog volunteer would still hold country placard march taiwan hong kong however unusual example occurred summer olympics parade athlete eritrea arrive opening ceremony brunei excluded game ioc shortly opening ceremony athlete registered one published list flag bearer later edited note brunei athlete would originally marched th uzbekistan barbados following list country flag bearer list sorted sequence nation appeared parade nation name given official designation ioc chinese name follow official designation beijing organizing committee olympic game note summer olympics national flag bearer summer paralympics national flag bearer winter olympics national flag bearer winter olympics national flag bearer main reference list flagbearers bejing sic pdf olympicorg august retrieved august