Countries around the world have selected cities within their national territory to put forward bids for hosting the Olympic Games. Since the creation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894, which successfully revived the Ancient Greek Olympics into what is currently their modern version, the interested cities have rivaled for the selection as host city of the Summer Olympic Games (or Games of the Olympiad) or Winter Olympic Games.

What follows is a list of the cities that have bid to host any of the Summer and Winter Olympics. Olympics have been chosen to be held in 50 cities (including repeats) since its "rebirth", twice in Eastern Europe, 5 times in East Asia, once in Central America, and the remainder in Western nations. No African, South American, Central Asian, Middle Eastern or South Asian nation has ever been chosen as host for the Olympics.

Typically, the decision is made at an IOC Session approximately seven years prior to the games; for example the 2012 Summer Olympics were awarded to London on July 6, 2005. The decision for the 2016 Summer Olympics will be made at the IOC Session in Copenhagen on October 2, 2009.

Summer Olympics bids

Games	Year	Candidate cities		Non-candidate applicant cities	IOC Session
		Host city	Others
I	1896	Athens			1st Paris (1894-06-23)
II	1900	Paris
III	1904	(St. Louis)	Chicago		4th Paris (1901-05-22)
IV	1908	Rome (London)	Berlin Milan		6th London (June, 1904)
V	1912	Stockholm			10th Berlin (1909-05-27)
VI	1916	Berlin	Alexandria Amsterdam Brussels Budapest Cleveland		14th Stockholm (1912-05-27)
VII	1920	Antwerp	Amsterdam Atlanta Budapest Cleveland Havana Lyon Philadelphia		17th Lausanne (1919-04-05)
VIII	1924	Paris	Amsterdam Barcelona Los Angeles Prague Rome		19th Lausanne (1921-06-02)
IX	1928	Amsterdam	Los Angeles
X	1932	Los Angeles			21st Rome (April, 1923)
XI	1936	Berlin	Alexandria Barcelona Budapest Buenos Aires Cologne Dublin Frankfurt Helsinki Lausanne Nuremberg Rio de Janeiro Rome		30th Lausanne (1931-05-13)
XII	1940	Tokyo Helsinki			35th Berlin (1936-07-31)
XIII	1944	London	Athens Budapest Detroit Helsinki Lausanne Montreal Rome		38th London (1939-06-09)
XIV	1948	London	Baltimore Lausanne Los Angeles Minneapolis Philadelphia		39th Lausanne (September, 1946)
XV	1952	Helsinki	Amsterdam Chicago Detroit Los Angeles Minneapolis Philadelphia		40th Stockholm (1947-06-21)
XVI	1956	Melbourne Stockholm	Buenos Aires Chicago Detroit Los Angeles Mexico City Minneapolis Philadelphia San Francisco		43rd Rome (1949-04-28)
XVII	1960	Rome	Brussels Budapest Detroit Lausanne Mexico City Tokyo		50th Paris (1955-06-15)
XVIII	1964	Tokyo	Brussels Detroit Vienna		55th Munich (1959-05-26)
XIX	1968	Mexico City	Buenos Aires Detroit Lyon		60th Baden-Baden (1963-10-18)
XX	1972	Munich	Detroit Madrid Montreal		64th Rome (1966-04-26)
XXI	1976	Montreal	Los Angeles Moscow		69th Amsterdam (1970-05-12)
XXII	1980	Moscow	Los Angeles		75th Vienna (1974-10-23)
XXIII	1984	Los Angeles			80th Athens (1978-05-18)
XXIV	1988	Seoul	Nagoya		84th Baden-Baden (1981-09-30)
XXV	1992 details	Barcelona	Amsterdam Belgrade Birmingham Brisbane Paris		91st Lausanne (1986-10-17)
XXVI	1996 details	Atlanta	Athens Belgrade Manchester Melbourne Toronto		96th Tokyo (1990-09-18)
XXVII	2000 details	Sydney	Beijing Berlin Istanbul Manchester		101st Monte-Carlo (1993-09-23)
XXVIII	2004 details	Athens	Buenos Aires Cape Town Rome Stockholm	Istanbul Lille Rio de Janeiro St. Petersburg San Juan Seville	106th Lausanne (1997-09-05)
XXIX	2008 details	Beijing	Istanbul Osaka Paris Toronto	Bangkok Cairo Havana Kuala Lumpur Seville	112th Moscow (2001-07-13)
XXX	2012 details	London	Madrid Moscow New York City Paris	Havana Istanbul Leipzig Rio de Janeiro	117th Singapore (2005-07-06)
XXXI	2016 details		Chicago Madrid Rio de Janeiro Tokyo	Baku Doha Prague	121st Copenhagen (2009-10-02)

Winter Olympics bids

Games	Year	Candidate cities		Non-candidate applicant cities	IOC Session
		Host city	Others
I	1924	Chamonix			19th Lausanne (1921-06-02)
II	1928	St. Moritz	Davos Engelberg		24th Lisbon (1926-05-06)
III	1932	Lake Placid	Bear Mountain Denver Duluth Minneapolis Montreal Oslo Yosemite Valley		27th Lausanne (1929-04-10)
IV	1936	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Montreal St. Moritz		31st Vienna (1933-06-07)
	1940	Sapporo St. Moritz Garmisch-Partenkirchen			36th Warsaw (1937-06-09)
	1944	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Montreal Oslo		38th London (1939-06-09)
V	1948	St. Moritz	Lake Placid		39th Lausanne (September, 1946)
VI	1952	Oslo	Cortina d'Ampezzo Lake Placid		40th Stockholm (1947-06-21)
VII	1956	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Colorado Springs Lake Placid Montreal		43rd Rome (1949-04-28)
VIII	1960	Squaw Valley	Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck St. Moritz		50th Paris (1955-06-16)
IX	1964	Innsbruck	Calgary Lahti		55th Munich (1959-05-26)
X	1968	Grenoble	Calgary Lahti Lake Placid Oslo Sapporo		61st Innsbruck (1964-01-28)
XI	1972	Sapporo	Banff Lahti Salt Lake City		64th Rome (1966-04-26)
XII	1976	Denver (Innsbruck)	Sion Tampere Vancouver-Garibaldi		69th Amsterdam (1970-05-12)
XIII	1980	Lake Placid	Vancouver-Garibaldi		75th Vienna (1974-10-23)
XIV	1984	Sarajevo	Gothenburg Sapporo		80th Athens (1978-05-18)
XV	1988	Calgary	Cortina d'Ampezzo Falun		84th Baden-Baden (1981-09-30)
XVI	1992	Albertville	Anchorage Berchtesgaden Cortina d'Ampezzo Falun Lillehammer Sofia		91st Lausanne (1986-10-17)
XVII	1994	Lillehammer	Anchorage Östersund Sofia		94th Seoul (1988-09-15)
XVIII	1998 details	Nagano	Aosta Jaca Östersund Salt Lake City		97th Birmingham (1991-06-15)
XIX	2002 details	Salt Lake City	Östersund Quebec City Sion	Graz Jaca Poprad-Tatry Sochi Tarvisio	104th Budapest (1995-06-16)
XX	2006 details	Turin	Sion	Helsinki Klagenfurt Poprad-Tatry Zakopane	109th Seoul (1999-06-19)
XXI	2010 details	Vancouver	Berne PyeongChang Salzburg	Andorra la Vella Harbin Jaca Sarajevo	115th Prague (2003-07-02)
XXII	2014 details	Sochi	PyeongChang Salzburg	Almaty Borjomi Jaca Sofia	119th Guatemala City (2007-07-04)

Notes

References

• International Olympic Committee (IOC) — Olympic Games
• IOC Vote History
• Olympic Games Museum
• Olympic Bid Election History

External links

• GamesBids.com
• TheBidLibrary.com