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x Salt Lake City Aerial view of Salt Lake City, Utah from the south-west. 2002 Winter Olympics
Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. Salt Lake City has a population of 180,651 as of 2007. The Salt Lake City metropolitan area spans Salt...
x Berlin Brandenburger Tor 1936 Summer Olympics
Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city and the eighth most populous urban area in the European...
x St. Moritz Écône is located in Switzerland 1928 Winter Olympics
St. Moritz (German: Sankt Moritz, Romansh: San Murezzan) is an exclusive resort town in the Engadine valley in Switzerland. It is a municipality in the district of Maloja in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. The highest summit in the Eastern Alps, the...
1948 Winter Olympics
x London 799px-Houses.of.parliament.overall.arp.jpg 1948 Summer Olympics
London (pronounced /ˈlʌndən/) is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been an influential city for two millennia and its history goes back to its founding by the Romans. The city's core, the ancient City of London, still retains its...
1908 Summer Olympics
2012 Summer Olympics
x Athens The Parthenon standing on top of the Acropolis of Athens 1906 Summer Olympics
Athens (pronounced /ˈæθənz/; Greek: Αθήνα, Athina, IPA: [aˈθina]), the capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the world's oldest cities, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. The Greek capital has a...
1896 Summer Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics
x Chamonix Chamonix Valley Panorama 1924 Winter Olympics
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix (French pronunciation: [ʃamɔni]) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. It lies at the foot of Mont Blanc. The 1924 Winter Olympics were held at...
x Sydney Sydney opera house and skyline 2000 Summer Olympics
Sydney (pronounced /ˈsɪdni/) is the largest city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million (2008 estimate). It is the state capital of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British colony in Australia....
x Atlanta City skyline from Buckhead 1996 Summer Olympics
Atlanta (pronounced /ətˈlæntə/ or /ætˈlæntə/) is the capital and most populous city in the state of Georgia as well as the urban core of one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States. With a population of 537,958, Atlanta is the...
x Montreal logo Montreal.gif 1976 Summer Olympics
Montreal (French: Montréal) (pronounced [mɔ̃ʁeˈal] (help·info) in French, /ˌmʌntriˈɑːl/ (help·info) in English, is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-largest city in Canada. Montreal was the largest city in Canada...
x Turin Coat of arms of Comune di Torino 2006 Winter Olympics
Turin (Italian: Torino; Piedmontese: Turin; pronounced [tyˈɾiŋ]) is a major city as well as a business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River surrounded by the Alpine...
x Beijing Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, the largest building in the Temple of Heaven 2008 Summer Olympics
Beijing (pronounced /beɪˈdʒɪŋ/ or /beɪˈʒɪŋ/ in English; Chinese: 北京; pinyin: Běijīng, IPA: [pèɪtɕíŋ]( listen); Wade-Giles: Pei3ching1 or Pei3-ching1) (also formerly known in English as Peking (/piːˈkɪŋ/  ( listen) or /peɪˈkɪŋ/)) is a metropolis in...
x Barcelona 1992 Summer Paralympics
Barcelona (Catalan pronunciation: [bəɾsəˈlonə], Spanish: [baɾθeˈlona]) is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008. It is the eleventh...
1992 Summer Olympics
x Seoul 1988 Summer Olympics
Seoul (Korean pronunciation: [sʌ.ul]  ( listen)) is the capital and largest city of South Korea. With a population of over 10 million, it is one of the world's largest cities and the second largest mega city in the world. The Seoul National Capital...
x Los Angeles LosAngeles06 1932 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles (pronounced /lɒˈsændʒələs/ los-AN-jə-ləs; Spanish: [los ˈaŋxeles]) is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an...
1984 Summer Olympics
x Moscow Official flag of МоскваMoscow 1980 Summer Olympics
Moscow (Russian: Москвa, romanised: Moskva, IPA: [mɐˈskva] (help·info); see also other names) is the capital and the largest city of Russia. It is also the largest metropolitan area in Europe, and ranks among the largest urban areas in the world....
x Munich Muenchen Stadtwappen 1972 Summer Olympics
Munich (German: München, pronounced [ˈmʏnçən]  ( listen); Austro-Bavarian: Minga) is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and...
x Mexico City Mexico-City_99.13396W_19.41997N.jpg 1968 Summer Olympics
The Mexican Federal District, known in Spanish as Distrito Federal (D.F.), is an area within Mexico that is not part of any of the Mexican states, but an independent self-governing city-state and the seat of the Federal Government. The core of the...
x Tokyo Map of Japan with Tokyo highlighted 1964 Summer Olympics
Tokyo (東京, Tōkyō), officially Tokyo Metropolis (東京都, Tōkyō-to), is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and is located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that...
x Rome Rome 1960 Summer Olympics
Rome (English pronunciation: /roʊm/; Italian: Roma, pronounced [ˈroːma]; Latin: Roma) is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populous city, with over 2.7 million residents in a municipality of some 1,285.3 km (496.3 sq mi), while...
x Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics
Melbourne, (pronounced /'mel.bən/) is the state capital of Victoria in south-eastern Australia.It is known for being the cultural capital of Australia, featuring unique arts, sports and music.
x Helsinki Helsinki 1952 Summer Olympics
Helsinki ( listen (help·info); Swedish: Helsingfors, listen (help·info)) is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of...
x Amsterdam Flag_of_Amsterdam.png 1928 Summer Olympics
Amsterdam (pronounced /ˈæmstərdæm/; Dutch [ɑmstərˈdɑm] (help·info)) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. The city, which had a population of around 1 million (with...
Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics - Men's 200 metres
x Paris Paris 1924 Summer Olympics
Paris (pronounced /ˈpærɪs/ or /ˈpɛrəs/ in English; [paʁi] (help·info) in French) is the capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region (also known as...
1900 Summer Olympics
x Nagano Location of Nagano City 1998 Winter Olympics
Nagano (長野市, Nagano-shi), the capital city of Nagano Prefecture, is located in the northern part of the prefecture near the confluence of the Chikuma and the Sai rivers, on the main Japanese island of Honshū. As of July 1, 2006, the city had an...
x Lillehammer A view of Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympics
Lillehammer (help·info) is a town and municipality in Oppland county, Norway, globally known for hosting the 1994 Winter Olympics. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of...
x Albertville Albertville depuis Pallud 1992 Winter Olympics
Albertville (Arpitan : Arbèrtvile) is a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. The town is best known for hosting the 1992 Winter Olympics. Albertville is situated on the Arly River, close to the...
x Lake Placid The lake after which the village is named 1932 Winter Olympics
Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a population of 2,638. Lake Placid is named after nearby Lake Placid. The Village of Lake Placid is near the center...
1980 Winter Olympics
x Sarajevo Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics
Sarajevo is the capital city and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 304,614 people in the four municipalities that make up the city proper, and an estimated urban area population of 421,289 people in the Sarajevo Canton as...
x Antwerp Antwerp skyline from the left riverside 1920 Summer Olympics
Antwerp ( [ˈæntwɜrp] (help·info), Dutch: Antwerpen [ˈɑntˌʋɛrpə(n)] (help·info), French: Anvers) is a city and municipality in Belgium and the capital of the Antwerp province in Flanders, one of Belgium's three regions. Antwerp's total population is...
x Oslo Die Akershus-vesting 1952 Winter Olympics
Oslo (help·info) (formerly Christiania) is the capital and largest city in Norway. The city was founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway. In 1624 the town was largely destroyed by a fire. The Danish-Norwegian king Christian IV rebuilt and...
x Grenoble Grenoble 1968 Winter Olympics
Grenoble is a city in southeastern France situated at the foot of the French Alps where the Drac joins the Isère River. Located in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère. The proximity of the mountains make the...
x Squaw Valley Location of Squaw Valley, California 1960 Winter Olympics
Olympic Valley (commonly known as Squaw Valley) in the U.S. state of California is an unincorporated community located in Placer County northwest of Tahoe City along Highway 89 on the banks of the Truckee River near Lake Tahoe. It is the home of the...
x Vancouver Downtown Vancouver as seen from the southern shore of False Creek 2010 Winter Olympics
Vancouver (pronounced /vænˈkuːvər/) is a coastal city and major seaport located in the Lower Mainland of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is the core of the largest metropolitan region in both British Columbia and Western Canada, although...
x Stockholm Location of Stockholm 1912 Summer Olympics
Stockholm (help·info) (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈstɔkhɔlm]) is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish government, the parliament, and the official residence of the Swedish monarch. As of 2008, the Stockholm...
x Garmisch-Partenkirchen Coat of arms of Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 Winter Olympics
Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a market town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the Oberbayern region, not far from the border with Austria. A subcamp of the Dachau concentration...
x St. Louis Skyline of St. Louis, Missouri 1904 Summer Olympics
St. Louis (English /seɪnt ˈluːɪs/,/sænt luwi/ French: Saint-Louis or St-Louis /sɛ̃ lwi/) is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri, located near the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Missouri River. St. Louis is the largest...
x Calgary Calgary downtown.jpg 1988 Winter Olympics
Calgary is the largest city in the province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in a region of foothills and high plains, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies. Calgary is the third largest...
x Cortina d'Ampezzo Coat of arms of Comune di Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Winter Olympics
Cortina d'Ampezzo (German: Hayden) is a town and municipality in the southern (Dolomitic) Alps and the province of Belluno, Veneto, northern Italy. Located in the heart of the Dolomites in an alpine valley, it is a popular winter sport resort known...
x Innsbruck Coat of arms of Innsbruck 1964 Winter Olympics
Innsbruck is the capital city of the federal state of Tyrol in western Austria. It is located in the Inn Valley at the junction with the Wipptal (Sill River), which provides access to the Brenner Pass, some 30 km south of Innsbruck. Located in the...
1976 Winter Olympics
x Sapporo Location of Sapporo City 1972 Winter Olympics
Sapporo (札幌市, Sapporo-shi) listen (help·info) is the fifth-largest city in Japan by population. It is the capital of Hokkaidō Prefecture, located in Ishikari Subprefecture, and an ordinance-designated city of Japan. Sapporo is best known outside...