2000 Summer Olympics - Participating Nations

Participating Nations

199 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in the Sydney Games, two more than in 1996 Summer Olympics. In addition, there were four Timorese Individual Olympic Athletes at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Eritrea, Micronesia and Palau made their Olympic debut this year.

Afghanistan was the only 1996 participant that did not participate in 2000, having been banned due to the extremist rule of the Taliban's oppression of women and its prohibition of sports.

Participating NOCs


Albania (4) Algeria (47) American Samoa (5) Andorra (5) Angola (30) Antigua and Barbuda (3) Argentina (143) Armenia (25) Aruba (5) Australia (632) (host) Austria (92) Azerbaijan (29) Bahamas (25) Bahrain (4) Bangladesh (4) Barbados (18) Belarus (139) Belgium (68) Belize (2) Benin (4) Bermuda (6) Bhutan (2) Bolivia (5) Bosnia and Herzegovina (9) Botswana (7) Brazil (205) British Virgin Islands (1) Brunei (1) Bulgaria (91) Burkina Faso (2) Burundi (6) Cambodia (4) Cameroon (34) Canada (294) Cape Verde (2) Cayman Islands (3) Central African Republic (3) Chad (2) Chile (50) China (271) Colombia (44) Comoros (2) DR Congo (3) Congo (4) Cook Islands (3) Costa Rica (7) Côte d'Ivoire (14) Croatia (88) Cuba (229)	Cyprus (22) Czech Republic (119) Denmark (97) Djibouti (2) Dominica (4) Dominican Republic (13) Ecuador (10) Egypt (89) El Salvador (8) Equatorial Guinea (4) Eritrea (3) Estonia (33) Ethiopia (26) Fiji (7) Finland (70) France (336) Gabon (5) Gambia (2) Georgia (36) Germany (422) Ghana (22) Great Britain (332) Greece (140) Grenada (3) Guam (7) Guatemala (15) Guinea (6) Guinea-Bissau (3) Guyana (4) Haiti (5) Honduras (20) Hong Kong (31) Hungary (178) Iceland (18) India (65) Indonesia (47) Iran (35) Iraq (4) Ireland (64) Israel (39) Italy (361) Jamaica (48) Japan (266) Jordan (8) Kazakhstan (130) Kenya (56) North Korea (31) South Korea (281) Kuwait (29) Kyrgyzstan (18)	Laos (3) Latvia (45) Lebanon (6) Lesotho (6) Liberia (8) Libya (3) Liechtenstein (2) Lithuania (61) Luxembourg (7) Macedonia (8) Madagascar (11) Malawi (2) Malaysia (40) Maldives (4) Mali (5) Malta (7) Mauritania (2) Mauritius (20) Mexico (78) Micronesia (5) Moldova (34) Monaco (4) Mongolia (20) Morocco (55) Mozambique (5) Myanmar (7) Namibia (12) Nauru (2) Nepal (5) Netherlands (243) Netherlands Antilles (7) New Zealand (151) Nicaragua (6) Niger (4) Nigeria (83) Norway (95) Oman (6) Pakistan (26) Palau (5) Palestine (2) Panama (6) Papua New Guinea (5) Paraguay (5) Peru (21) Philippines (21) Poland (187) Portugal (62) Puerto Rico (29) Qatar (17) Romania (145)	Russia (435) Rwanda (5) Saint Kitts and Nevis (2) Saint Lucia (5) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (4) Samoa (5) San Marino (4) São Tomé and Príncipe (2) Saudi Arabia Senegal (26) Seychelles (9) Sierra Leone (3) Singapore (14) Slovakia (114) Slovenia (74) Solomon Islands (2) Somalia (2) South Africa (127) Spain (326) Sri Lanka (18) Sudan (3) Suriname (4) Swaziland (6) Sweden (149) Switzerland (105) Syria (8) Chinese Taipei (74) Tajikistan (4) Tanzania (4) Thailand (52) Togo (3) Tonga (3) Trinidad and Tobago (19) Tunisia (47) Turkey (57) Turkmenistan (8) Uganda (13) Ukraine (230) United Arab Emirates (4) United States (586) Uruguay (14) Uzbekistan (70) Vanuatu (3) Venezuela (50) Vietnam (7) Virgin Islands (9) Yemen (2) Yugoslavia (111) Zambia (8) Zimbabwe (16)