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A National Olympic Committee (NOC) is a national constituent of the worldwide Olympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Olympic Committee, NOCs are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the Olympic Games. They may nominate cities within their respective areas as candidates for future Olympic Games. NOCs also promote the development of athletes and training of coaches and officials at a national level within their geographies.

As of 2015, there are 206 NOCs, representing both sovereign nations and other geographical areas. All 193 member states of the United Nations have IOC-recognized National Olympic Committees, as well as 12 other territories:

The NOCs are all members of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), which is also split among five continental associations:

Continent Association NOCs Oldest NOC Newest NOC
Association of National Olympic Committees Africa Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa 54 Egypt (1910) South Sudan (2015)
America Pan American Sports Organization 41 United States (1894) Dominica (1993)
Saint Kitts and Nevis (1993)
Saint Lucia (1993)
Asia Olympic Council of Asia 44[3] Japan, Philippines (1912) Timor-Leste (2003)
Europe European Olympic Committees 50 France (1894) Kosovo (2014)
Oceania Oceania National Olympic Committees 17 Australia (1895) Tuvalu (2007)

See the article for each continental association for the complete lists of all NOCs.

List of NOCs by recognition date[]

Below is a chronological list of the 206 NOCs recognized by the International Olympic Committee, since its foundation in 1894. Many of these committees were founded many years before their official recognition, while others were immediately accepted after being founded. Former states, nowadays non-existent (e.g. Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Netherlands Antilles, etc.), are not listed, only the current states derived from them (f.i. the Czech Olympic Committee representing Bohemia was created and recognized in 1899 already, later transformed into the Czechoslovak Olympic Committee and after the split of Czechoslovakia recognized again in 1993).

1894 France, United States
1895 Australia, Germany, Greece, Hungary
1900 Norway
1905 Denmark, Great Britain
1906 Belgium
1907 Canada, Finland
1909 Portugal
1910 Egypt
1911 Turkey
1912 Austria, Japan, Philippines, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Serbia,[4] Spain, Switzerland
1913 Sweden
1914 Romania
1915 Italy
1919 New Zealand, Poland
1922 Ireland, Latvia
1923 Argentina, Estonia, Mexico, Uruguay
1924 Bulgaria, Haiti, Lithuania
1927 India
1933 Israel (then Eretz Israel)
1934 Chile
1935 Brazil, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Venezuela
1936 Afghanistan, Bermuda, Bolivia, Jamaica, Malta, Peru
1937 Sri Lanka (then Ceylon)
1947 Guatemala, Iran, Myanmar (then Burma), Panama, South Korea (designated Korea by the IOC)
1948 Colombia, Guyana (then British Guiana), Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago
1950 Thailand
1951 Hong Kong, Nigeria
1952 Bahamas, Ghana (then Gold Coast), Indonesia, Israel (re-established)
1953 Monaco
1954 Costa Rica, Cuba, Ethiopia, Malaysia (then Malaya)
1955 Barbados, Fiji, Kenya, Liberia
1956 Honduras, Uganda
1957 North Korea, Tunisia
1959 Albania, Ecuador, Morocco, Nicaragua, San Marino, Sudan, Suriname
1960 Chinese Taipei (then Republic of China founded 1922)
1962 Benin (then Dahomey), Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mongolia
1963 Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire (then Ivory Coast), Jordan, Libya, Mali, Nepal, Senegal
1964 Algeria, Chad, Madagascar, Niger, Congo, Sierra Leone, Zambia
1965 Central African Republic, Guinea, Saudi Arabia, Togo
1966 Kuwait
1967 Belize (then British Honduras), Virgin Islands
1968 Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Malawi, Tanzania
1970 Paraguay
1972 Burkina Faso (then Upper Volta), Lesotho, Mauritius, Somalia, Swaziland
1974 Papua New Guinea
1975 Andorra
1976 Antigua and Barbuda, Cayman Islands, Gambia
1978 Cyprus
1979 Bahrain, Laos, Mauritania, Mozambique, People's Republic of China (founded 1954), Seychelles, Vietnam
1980 Angola, Bangladesh, Botswana, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Zimbabwe
1981 Yemen
1982 British Virgin Islands, Oman
1983 Bhutan, Samoa (then Western Samoa), Solomon Islands
1984 Brunei, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Grenada, Rwanda, Tonga
1985 Maldives
1986 Aruba, Cook Islands, Guam
1987 American Samoa, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Vanuatu
1991 Estonia (re-established), Latvia (re-established), Lithuania (re-established), Namibia, South Africa
1993 Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Cape Verde, Comoros, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominica, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, North Macedonia (then former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), Russia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1994 Cambodia, Nauru
1995 Guinea-Bissau, Palestine
1997 Federated States of Micronesia
1999 Eritrea, Palau
2003 Kiribati, Timor-Leste
2006 Marshall Islands
2008 Montenegro, Tuvalu
2014 Kosovo
2015 South Sudan

See also[]

References[]

  1. Executive Board concludes first meeting of the new year. olympic.org ("Official website of the Olympic movement") (13 January 2011). Retrieved on 13 January 2011.
  2. Curtain comes down on 123rd IOC Session.
  3. The OCA includes 45 NOCs; the Macau Sports and Olympic Committee is not recognized by the IOC and Macau does not compete at the Olympic Games.
  4. The Olympic Committee of Serbia
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