National Olympic Committee

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National Olympic Committees (or NOCs) are the national constituents of the worldwide olympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Olympic Committee, they are responsible for organizing their country's participation in the Olympic Games. For a list of NOC country codes, see List of IOC country codes. The first year is the date of creation, the second the date of recognition.

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[edit] NOC by continent

[edit] Africa

  • Comité Olympique Algérien (1963/1964)
  • Comité Olímpico Angolano (1979/1980)
  • Comité National Olympique et Sportif Béninois (1962/1962)
  • Botswana National Olympic Committee (1978/1980)
  • Comité National Olympique et des Sports Burkinabé (1965/1972)
  • Comité National Olympique du Burundi (1990/1993)
  • Comité National Olympique et Sportif du Cameroun (1963/1963)
  • Comité Olímpico Caboverdeano (1989/1993)
  • Comité National Olympique et Sportif Centrafricain (1964/1965)
  • Comité Olympique et Sportif Tchadien (1963/1964)
  • Comité Olympique et Sportif des Îles Comores (1979/1993)
  • Comité National Olympique et Sportif Congolais (1964/1964)
  • Comité National Olympique de Côte d'Ivoire (1962/1963)
  • Comité Olympique Congolais (1963/1968)
  • Comité National Olympique Djiboutien (1983/1984)
  • Egyptian Olympic Committee (1910/1910)
  • Comité National Olympique Equato-Guinéen (1980/1984)
  • Eritrean National Olympic Committee (1996/1998)
  • Ethiopian Olympic Committee (1948/1954)
  • Comité Olympique Gabonais (1965/1968)
  • Gambia National Olympic Committee (1972/1976)
  • Ghana Olympic Committee (1952/1952)
  • Comité National Olympique et Sportif Guinéen (1964/1965)
  • Comité Olímpico da Guiné-Bissau (1992/1995)
  • National Olympic Committee Kenya (1955/1955)
  • Lesotho National Olympic Committee (1971/1972)
  • Liberia National Olympic Committee (1954/1955)
  • Libyan Olympic Committee (1962/1963)
  • Comité Olympique Malgache (1963/1964)
  • Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association of Malawi (1968/1968)
  • Comité National Olympique et Sportif du Mali (1962/1963)
  • Comité Olympique Mauritanien (1962/1979)
  • Mauritius Olympic Committee (1971/1972)
  • Comité Olympique Marocain (1959/1959)
  • Comité Olímpico Nacional de Moçambique (1979/1979)
  • Namibian National Olympic Committee (1991/1991)
  • Comité Olympique et Sportif National du Niger (1964/1964)
  • Nigeria Olympic Committee Inc. (1951/1951)
  • Comité National Olympique et Sportif du Rwanda (1984/1984)
  • Comité Olímpico de São Tomé e Príncipe (1979/1993)
  • Comité National Olympique et Sportif Sénégalais (1961/1963)
  • Seychelles National Olympic Committee (1979/1979)
  • National Olympic Committee of Sierra Leone (1964/1964)
  • Somali Olympic Committee (1959/1972)
  • South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (1991/1991)
  • Sudan Olympic Committee (1956/1959)
  • Swaziland Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association (1971/1972)
  • Comité National Olympique Togolais (1963/1965)
  • Comité National Olympique Tunisien (1957/1957)
  • Uganda Olympic Committee (1950/1956)
  • Tanzania Olympic Committee (1968/1968)
  • National Olympic Committee of Zambia (1964/1964)
  • Zimbabwe Olympic Committee (1934/1980)

[edit] Americas

  • The Antigua and Barbuda Olympic Association (1966/1976)
  • Comité Olímpico Argentino (1923/1923)
  • Comité Olímpico Arubano (1985/1986)
  • Bahamas Olympic Association (1952/1952)
  • The Barbados Olympic Association Inc. (1955/1955)
  • Belize Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association (1967/1967)
  • Bermuda Olympic Association (1935/1936)
  • Comité Olímpico Boliviano (1932/1936)
  • Comitê Olímpico Brasileiro (1935/1935)
  • British Virgin Islands Olympic Committee (1980/1982)
  • Canadian Olympic Committee (1904/1907)
  • Cayman Islands Olympic Committee (1973/1976)
  • Comité Olímpico de Chile (1934/1934)
  • Comité Olímpico Colombiano (1936/1939)
  • Comité Olímpico de Costa Rica (1953/1954)
  • Comité Olímpico Cubano (1937/1954)
  • Dominica Olympic Committee (1987/1993)
  • Comité Olímpico Dominicano (1946/1962)
  • Comité Olímpico Ecuatoriano (1948/1959)
  • Comité Olímpico de El Salvador (1949/1962)
  • The Grenada Olympic Committee (1984/1984)
  • Comité Olímpico Guatemalteco (1947/1947)
  • Guyana Olympic Association (1935/1948)
  • Comité Olympique Haïtien (1914/1924)
  • Comité Olímpico Hondureño (1956/1956)
  • Jamaica Olympic Association Ltd. (1936/1936)
  • Comité Olímpico Mexicano (1923/1923)
  • Nederlands Antilliaans Olympisch Comité (1931/1950)
  • Comité Olímpico Nicaragüense (1959/1959)
  • Comité Olímpico de Panamá (1934/1947)
  • Comité Olímpico Paraguayo (1970/1970)
  • Comité Olímpico Peruano (1924/1936)
  • Comité Olímpico de Puerto Rico (1948/1948)
  • St. Kitts and Nevis Olympic Association (1986/1993)
  • St. Lucia Olympic Committee (1987/1993)
  • The St. Vincent and the Grenadines National Olympic Committee (1982/1987)
  • Surinaams Olympisch Comité (1959/1959)
  • Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (1946/1948)
  • United States Olympic Committee (1894/1894)
  • Comité Olímpico Uruguayo (1923/1923)
  • Comité Olímpico Venezolano (1935/1935)
  • Virgin Islands Olympic Committee (1967/1967)

[edit] Asia

  • Afghanistan National Olympic Committee (1935/1936)
  • Bahrain Olympic Committee (1978/1979)
  • Bangladesh Olympic Association (1979/1980)
  • Bhutan Olympic Committee (1983/1983)
  • Brunei Darussalam National Olympic Council (1984/1984)
  • National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (1983/1994)
  • Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (1960/1960)
  • Olympic Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (1953/1957)
  • Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong China (1950/1951)
  • Indian Olympic Association (1927/1927)
  • Komite Olahraga Nasional Indonesia (1946/1952)
  • National Olympic Committee of Iraq (1948/1948)
  • National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran (1947/1947)
  • Japanese Olympic Committee (1911/1912)
  • Jordan Olympic Committee (1957/1963)
  • National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1990/1993)
  • Korean Olympic Committee (1946/1947)
  • Kuwait Olympic Committee (1957/1966)
  • National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan (1991/1993)
  • National Olympic Committee of Lao (1975/1979)
  • Lebanese Olympic Committee (1947/1948)
  • Olympic Council of Malaysia (1953/1954)
  • Maldives Olympic Committee (1985/1985)
  • Mongolian National Olympic Committee (1961/1962)
  • Myanmar Olympic Committee (1947/1947)
  • Nepal Olympic Committee (1962/1963)
  • Oman Olympic Committee (1982/1982)
  • Pakistan Olympic Association (1948/1948)
  • Palestine Olympic Committee (1995/1995)
  • Chinese Olympic Committee (1910/1979)
  • Philippine Olympic Committee (1911/1929)
  • Qatar National Olympic Committee (1979/1980)
  • Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee (1964/1965)
  • Singapore National Olympic Council (1947/1948)
  • National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (1937/1937)
  • Syrian Olympic Committee (1948/1948)
  • National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Tajikistan (1992/1993)
  • Olympic Committee of Thailand (1948/1950)
  • Comité Olímpico Nacional de Timor-Leste (2003/2003)
  • National Olympic Committee of Turkmenistan (1990/1993)
  • United Arab Emirates National Olympic Committee (1979/1980)
  • National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan (1992/1993)
  • Vietnam Olympic Committee (1976/1979)
  • Yemen Olympic Committee (1971/1981)

[edit] Europe

  • National Olympic Committee of Albania (1959/1959)
  • Comitè Olímpic Andorrà (1971/1975)
  • National Olympic Committee of Armenia (1990/1993)
  • Österreichisches Olympisches Comité (1908/1912)
  • National Olympic Committee of the Azerbaijani Republic (1992/1993)
  • Belarus Olympic Committee (1991/1993)
  • Comité Olympique et Interfédéral Belge (1906/1906)
  • Olympic Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992/1993)
  • Bulgarian Olympic Committee (1923/1924)
  • Croatian Olympic Committee (1991/1993)
  • The Cyprus National Olympic Committee (1974/1978)
  • Czech Olympic Committee (1899/1993)
  • National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark (1905/1905)
  • Estonian Olympic Committee (1923/1991)
  • Finnish Olympic Committee (1907/1907)
  • Olympic Committee of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (1992/1993)
  • Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français (1894/1894)
  • Georgian National Olympic Committee (1989/1993)
  • German Olympic Sports Confederation (1895/1895)
  • British Olympic Association (1905/1905)
  • Comité Olympique Hellénique (1894/1895)
  • Hungarian Olympic Committee (1895/1895)
  • The National Olympic and Sports Association of Iceland (1921/1935)
  • Olympic Council of Ireland (1922/1922)
  • The Olympic Committee of Israel (1933/1952)
  • Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (1908/1915)
  • Latvian Olympic Committee (1922/1991)
  • Liechtensteinischer Olympischer Sportverband (1935/1935)
  • National Olympic Committee of Lithuania (1937/1991)
  • Luxembourgian Olympic and Sporting Committee (1912/1912)
  • Malta Olympic Committee (1928/1936)
  • Comité Olympique Monégasque (1907/1953)
  • Nederlands Olympisch Comité (1912/1912)
  • Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports (1900/1900)
  • Polish Olympic Committee (1918/1919)
  • Comité Olímpico de Portugal (1909/1909)
  • Comité National Olympique de la République de Moldova (1991/1993)
  • Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee (1914/1914)
  • Russian Olympic Committee (1989/1993)
  • Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Sammarinese (1959/1959)
  • Olympic Committee of Serbia (1919/1920)
  • Slovak Olympic Committee (1992/1993)
  • Olympic Committee of Slovenia (1991/1993)
  • Comité Olímpico Español (1924/1924)
  • Swedish Olympic Committee (1913/1913)
  • Swiss Olympic Association (1912/1912)
  • National Olympic Committee of Turkey (1908/1911)
  • National Olympic Committee of Ukraine (1990/1993)

[edit] Oceania

  • American Samoa National Olympic Committee (1987/1987)
  • Australian Olympic Committee (1895/1895)
  • Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee (1986/1986)
  • Federated States of Micronesia National Olympic Committee (1995/1997)
  • Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (1949/1955)
  • Guam National Olympic Committee (1976/1986)
  • Kiribati National Olympic Committee (2002/2003)
  • Marshall Islands National Olympic Committee (2001/2006)
  • Nauru Olympic Committee (1991/1994)
  • New Zealand Olympic Committee (1911/1920)
  • Palau National Olympic Committee (1997/1999)
  • Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee (1973/1974)
  • Samoa Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (1983/1983)
  • National Olympic Committee of Solomon Islands (1983/1983)
  • Tonga Sports Association and National Olympic Committee (1963/1984)
  • Vanuatu Amateur Sports Association and National Olympic Committee (1987/1987)

[edit] NOC by recognition date

Below is a chronological list of the NOC recognized by the International Olympic Committee, since its foundation in 1894. Many of these NOC were founded many years before its official recognition, while others were immediately accepted after being founded. Former states, nowadays non-extant (e.g. Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, etc.), are not listed, only the current states they have derived into.

# NOC IOC recognition
1 France 1894
- United States 1894
3 Australia 1895
- Germany 1895
- Greece 1895
- Hungary 1895
7 Norway 1900
8 United Kingdom 1905
- Denmark 1905
10 Belgium 1906
11 Canada 1907
- Finland 1907
13 Portugal 1909
14 Egypt 1910
15 Turkey 1911
16 Austria 1912
- Japan 1912
- Luxembourg 1912
- Netherlands 1912
- Switzerland 1912
21 Sweden 1913
22 Romania 1914
23 Italy 1915
24 Poland 1919
25 New Zealand 1920
- Serbia 1920
27 Ireland 1922
28 Argentina 1923
- Mexico 1923
- Uruguay 1923
31 Bulgaria 1924
- Haiti 1924
- Spain 1924
34 India 1927
35 Philippines 1929
36 Chile 1934
37 Brazil 1935
- Iceland 1935
- Liechtenstein 1935
- Venezuela 1935
41 Afghanistan 1936
- Bermuda 1936
- Bolivia 1936
- Jamaica 1936
- Malta 1936
- Peru 1936
47 Sri Lanka 1937
48 Colombia 1939
49 Guatemala 1947
- Iran 1947
- Myanmar 1947
- Panama 1947
- South Korea 1947
54 Guyana 1948
- Iraq 1948
- Lebanon 1948
- Pakistan 1948
- Puerto Rico 1948
- Singapore 1948
- Syria 1948
- Trinidad and Tobago 1948
62 Netherlands Antilles 1950
- Thailand 1950
64 Hong Kong 1951
- Nigeria 1951
66 Bahamas 1952
- Ghana 1952
- Indonesia 1952
- Israel 1952
70 Monaco 1953
71 Costa Rica 1954
- Cuba 1954
- Ethiopia 1954
- Malaysia 1954
75 Fiji 1955
- Kenya 1955
- Liberia 1955
- Barbados 1955
79 Honduras 1956
- Uganda 1956
81 North Korea 1957
- Tunisia 1957
83 Albania 1959
- Ecuador 1959
- Morocco 1959
- Nicaragua 1959
- San Marino 1959
- Sudan 1959
- Suriname 1959
90 Chinese Taipei 1960
91 Benin 1962
- Dominican Republic 1962
- El Salvador 1962
- Mongolia 1962
95 Cameroon 1963
- Côte d'Ivoire 1963
- Jordan 1963
- Libya 1963
- Mali 1963
- Nepal 1963
- Senegal 1963
102 Algeria 1964
- Chad 1964
- Democratic Republic
of Congo
1964
- Madagascar 1964
- Niger 1964
- Sierra Leone 1964
- Zambia 1964
109 Central African Republic 1965
- Guinea 1965
- Saudi Arabia 1965
- Togo 1965
113 Kuwait 1966
114 Belize 1967
- Virgin Islands 1967
116 Republic of Congo 1968
- Gabon 1968
- Malawi 1968
- Tanzania 1968
120 Paraguay 1970
121 Burkina Faso 1972
- Lesotho 1972
- Mauritius 1972
- Somalia 1972
- Swaziland 1972
126 Papua New Guinea 1974
127 Andorra 1975
128 Antigua and Barbuda 1976
- Cayman Islands 1976
- Gambia 1976
131 Cyprus 1978
132 Bahrain 1979
- China 1979
- Laos 1979
- Mauritania 1979
- Mozambique 1979
- Seychelles 1979
- Vietnam 1979
139 Angola 1980
- Bangladesh 1980
- Botswana 1980
- Qatar 1980
- United Arab Emirates 1980
- Zimbabwe 1980
145 Yemen 1981
146 British Virgin Islands 1982
- Oman 1982
148 Bhutan 1983
- Samoa 1983
- Solomon Islands 1983
151 Brunei Darussalam 1984
- Djibouti 1984
- Equatorial Guinea 1984
- Grenada 1984
- Rwanda 1984
- Tonga 1984
157 Maldives 1985
158 Aruba 1986
- Cook Islands 1986
- Guam 1986
161 American Samoa 1987
- Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines
1987
- Vanuatu 1987
164 Estonia 1991
- Latvia 1991
- Lithuania 1991
- Namibia 1991
- South Africa 1991
169 Armenia 1993
- Azerbaijan 1993
- Belarus 1993
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 1993
- Burundi 1993
- Cape Verde 1993
- Comoros 1993
- Croatia 1993
- Czech Republic 1993
- Dominica 1993
- FYR Macedonia 1993
- Georgia 1993
- Kazakhstan 1993
- Kyrgyztan 1993
- Moldova 1993
- Russia 1993
- Saint Kitts and Nevis 1993
- Saint Lucia 1993
- São Tomé and Príncipe 1993
- Slovakia 1993
- Slovenia 1993
- Tajikistan 1993
- Turkmenistan 1993
- Ukraine 1993
- Uzbekistan 1993
194 Cambodia 1994
- Nauru 1994
196 Guinea-Bissau 1995
- Palestine 1995
198 Federated States
of Micronesia
1997
199 Eritrea 1998
200 Palau 1999
201 Kiribati 2003
- Timor-Leste 2003
203 Marshall Islands 2006
204 Montenegro 2007

      Africa: ANOCAAssociation of National Olympic Committees of Africa
      America: PASOPan American Sports Organisation
      Asia: OCAOlympic Council of Asia
      Europe: EOCEuropean Olympic Committees
      Oceania: ONOCOceania National Olympic Committees

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