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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're responsible for organizing their country's participation in the Olympic Games. They may nominate cities within their respective countries 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 countries.
As of 2008, there are 205 NOCs, representing both sovereign nations and other geographical areas. All 192 United Nations member states have National Olympic Committees, as do 13 other territories:

Republic of China, designated as Chinese Taipei by the IOC
Palestinian territories, designated as Palestine by the IOC
Four territories of the United States: American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and United States Virgin Islands (designated just Virgin Islands by the IOC)
Three British overseas territories: Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, and Cayman Islands
Two constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands: Aruba and Netherlands Antilles
Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
Cook Islands, an associated state of New Zealand

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

Association	NOCs	Oldest NOC	Newest NOC
Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa	53	Egypt (1910)	Eritrea (1999)
Pan American Sports Organisation	42	United States (1894)	Dominica (1993) Saint Kitts and Nevis (1993) Saint Lucia (1993)
Olympic Council of Asia	44	Japan (1912)	Timor-Leste (2003)
European Olympic Committees	49	France (1894)	Montenegro (2007)
Oceania National Olympic Committees	17	Australia (1895)	Tuvalu (2007)

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

List of NOCs by recognition date

Below is a chronological list of the 205 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-extant (for example Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, etc.), are not listed, only the current states they've derived into.

1894	France, United States
1895	Australia, Germany, Greece, Hungary
1900	Norway
1905	Denmark, United Kingdom (designated Great Britain by the IOC)
1906	Belgium
1907	Canada, Finland
1909	Portugal
1910	Egypt
1911	Turkey
1912	Austria, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland
1913	Sweden
1914	Romania
1915	Italy
1919	New Zealand, Poland
1920	Yugoslavia (Serbia)
1922	Ireland
1923	Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay
1924	Bulgaria, Haiti
1927	India
1929	Philippines
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	Netherlands Antilles, Thailand
1951	Hong Kong, Nigeria
1952	Bahamas, Ghana (then Gold Coast), Indonesia, Israel
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)
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, 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, Latvia, Lithuania, Namibia, South Africa
1993	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Cape Verde, Comoros, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominica, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, FYR 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	Micronesia
1999	Eritrea, Palau
2003	Kiribati, Timor-Leste
2006	Marshall Islands
2007	Montenegro, Tuvalu

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