RANKED: Every nation at the Tokyo Olympics by the number of athletes they have taken to Japan

Barnaby LaneJul 24, 2021, 00:51 IST

Team USA is the biggest at the Tokyo Olympics.Getty/Jamie Squire

There are 206 nations, territories, and principalities, and 10,305 individual athletes competing at the Tokyo Olympics.
13 nations have just two athletes in their team, while the largest team is the United States with 613.
Below, Insider has ranked every nation at the games based on its number of athletes.

2 - Andorra, Bermuda, Brunei, Central African Republic, Dominica, Lesotho, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Nauru, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Tuvalu

Bermuda's Dara Alizadeh. Getty/Lluis Acosta

3 - Aruba, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, Chad, Comoros, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Liberia, Myanmar, Palau, Republic of the Congo, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, São Tomé and Príncipe, Suriname, Tanzania, Vanuatu

Liberia's Emmanuel Matadi. Getty Images/Johannes Eisele

3 - Aruba, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, Chad, Comoros, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Liberia, Myanmar, Palau, Republic of the Congo, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, São Tomé and Príncipe, Suriname, Tanzania, Vanuatu

4 - Bhutan, Djibouti, Eswatini, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Iraq, Laos, Libya, Maldives, Mali, Oman, Sierra Leone, Togo, Virgin Islands

Team Iraq. Hannah McKay - Pool/Getty Images

5 - Afghanistan, Bolivia, Cayman Islands, El Salvador, Gabon, Guam, Guinea, Liechtenstein, Malawi, Nepal, Palestine, Saint Lucia, San Marino, Seychelles, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's Kudzai Mashawi. Getty/Rodger Bosch

5 - Afghanistan, Bolivia, Cayman Islands, El Salvador, Gabon, Guam, Guinea, Liechtenstein, Malawi, Nepal, Palestine, Saint Lucia, San Marino, Seychelles, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Zimbabwe

6 - American Samoa, Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cape Verde, Cook Islands, Grenada, Haiti, Madagascar, Malta, Monaco, Rwanda, Syria, Tonga

Quentin Antognelli of Monaco. Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images

7 - Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guyana, Niger

Niger's Abdoulrazak Issoufou Alfaga (L). Jamie Squire/Getty Images

8 - Barbados, Lebanon, Mauritius, Nicaragua, North Macedonia, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Samoa

Team Barbados. BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images

9 - Albania, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Turkmenistan

Gulbadam Babamuratova of Turkmenistan (L). Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images

10 - Mozambique, Pakistan, Panama

Team Mozambique. Getty/Martin Bureau

11 - Kosovo, Kuwait, Namibia, Tajikistan, Uruguay

Enzo Martinez-Scarpe of Uruguay. Getty/Clive Rose

12 - Cameroon, Costa Rica, Luxembourg

Cameroon’s Estelle Adiana. Getty/Pedro Vilela

13 - Botswana, Cyprus, Eritrea

Team Cyprus. Getty/Clive Brunskill

14 - Ghana, Jordan

Ghana's Takyi Samuel (R). Getty/Seyllou

16 - Bahamas, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar

The Bahamas' Shaunae Miller-Uibo. CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU/AFP via Getty Images

17 - Armenia

Team Armenia. Getty/Clive Brunskill

18 - Vietnam

Team Vietnam. Getty/Patrick Smith

19 - Moldova, Philippines

Cris Nievarez of Philippines. Getty/Stephen McCarthy

20 - Angola

Team Angola. Getty/Matthias Hangst

21 - Honduras, Uganda

Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda. Getty/Dean Mouhtaropoulos

22 - Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago

Singapore's Joan Poh Getty/Luis Acosta

23 - Guatemala

Juan Ramon Schaeffer of Team Guatemala. Getty/Kevin Cox

24 - Zambia

Hazel Nali of Zambia. Getty/Pablo Moran

28 - Indonesia, Ivory Coast

Team Indonesia. Getty/Matt Roberts

29 - Fiji, Refugee Olympic Team, Saudi Arabia

Semi Radradra of Fiji. Getty/Mark Kolbe

30 - Finland, Georgia, Malaysia

Georgia's Lukhumi Chkhvimiani. Getty/Charly Triballeau

32 - Bahrain

Team Bahrain. Getty/Patrick Smith

33 - Estonia, Latvia

Juri-Mikk Udam, Allar Raja, Tonu Endrekson, and Kaspar Taimsoo of Estonia. Getty/Daniel Kopatsch

34 - Montenegro, Peru

Montenegro's Jovanka Radicevic. Getty/Savo Prelevic

36 - Ethiopia

Team Ethiopia. Getty/Matthias Hangst

37 - Puerto Rico

Puerto-Rico basketball. Getty/Guillame Souvant

41 - Ecuador, Lithuania, Slovakia

Adriana Espinosa de los Monteros of Ecuador. Getty/Photo by Azael Rodriguez

42 - Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Thailand

Nitchaon Jindapol of Thailand. Getty/AFP

43 - Mongolia

Team Mongolia. Getty/Jamie Squire

44 - Algeria, Azerbaijan, Venezuela

Team Algeria. Getty/Patrick Smith

50 - Jamaica, Morocco

Danusia Francis of Team Jamaica. Getty/Patrick Smith

52 - Nigeria

Nigeria's Atonye Nyingifa (R). Getty/Andrej Isakovic

53 - Slovenia

Peter Kauzer. Getty/Cameron Spencer

57 - Chile

Daniela Pardo of Team Chile. Getty/Masashi Hara

59 - Croatia, Chinese Taipei

Team Croatia. Getty/DeFodi Images

60 - Austria, Dominican Republic

Austria’s Anna-Maria, Eirini-Marina Alexandri. Clive Rose/Getty Images

63 - Tunisia, Uzbekistan

Tunisia point guard Omar Abeda. Getty/Charly Triballeau

66 - Iran

Amir Mohammad Yazdani. Getty/MB Media

68 - Cuba

Cuba's Idalys Ortiz. Getty/Charly Triballeau

71 - Colombia

Team Colombia. Getty/Andrej Isakovic

75 - Norway

Karsten Warholm. Getty/Annika Byrde

83 - Greece

Team Greece. Ben STANSALL / AFP

85 - Kenya

Eliud Kipchoge. Matthias Hangst/Getty Images

86 - Serbia

Novak Djokovic. Getty/Tim Clayton-Corbis

90 - Israel

Israel's Sagi Muki. Getty/Charly Triballeau

92 - Portugal

Jorge Fonseca of Portugal. Getty/Charly Triballeau

93 - Kazakhstan

Alina Ilyassova of Kazakhstan. Getty/Matt Roberts

101 - Belarus, Romania

Maryna Litvinchuk and Volha Khudzenka of Belarus. Getty/Toru Hanai

105 - Denmark

Rasmus Gemke Getty/Toshifumi Kitamura

106 - Switzerland

Switzerland cyclist Sina Frei. Getty/Toshifumi Kitamura

108 - Turkey

Turkish teams leaders Bilal Arslan and Elvan Abey Legesse. Getty/Minasse Wondimu Hailu

115 - Czech Republic

Lukas Krpalek. Getty/Charly Triballeau

116 - Republic of Ireland

Ireland’s Roisin Upton, Bethany Barr, and Chloe Watkins. Getty/Brendan Moran

121 - Belgium

Emma Plasschaert. Getty/Matt Roberts

125 - India

Deepika Kumari of India. Getty/Matt Roberts

133 - Egypt

Dina Meshref. Getty/Steph Chambers

134 - Sweden

Team Sweden. Getty/Jose Jordan

155 - Ukraine

Anastasia Pavlova of Ukraine. Getty/Matt Robert

164 - Mexico

Mexico footballers Erick Aguirre, Uriel Antuna, and Alexis Vega. Getty/Mariko Ishizuka

166 - Hungary

Hungary's Katinka Hosszu. Getty/Attila Kisbenedek

174 - Argentina

Team Argentina. Sergei Bobylev/Getty Images

177 - South Africa

South Africa's Christiaan Pretorius. Getty/Rodger Bosch

210 - Poland

Poland's Ryszard Lewicki (L). Getty/Adam Davy

223 - New Zealand

Robbie Manson. Getty/Naomi Baker

236 - South Korea

Team South Korea’s Dongjun Lee. Atsushi Tomura/Getty Images

274 - Netherlands

Arno Kamminga. Getty/Dean Mouhtaropoulos

302 - Brazil

Marta. AP Photo/Andre Penner

320 - Spain

Team Spain. Getty/Jose Jordan

328 - Russian Olympic Committee

Tatiana Kashirina of Russia. Getty/Toru Hanai

370 - Canada

Team Canada's women's soccer. Getty/AFP

372 - Italy

Team Italy Swimming. Getty/Marcel ter Bals

376 - Great Britain

Reece Prescod. Getty/Nathan Stirk

398 - France

France's Aloise Retornaz and Camille Lecointre. Getty/Charly Triballeau

406 - China

Ou Yushan of China. Getty/Xinhua

425 - Germany

Tim Ole Naske, Karl Schulze, Hans Gruhne and Max Appel of Team Germany. Getty/Naomi Baker

478 - Australia

Swimmers Bronte and Cate Campbell. Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

Japan - 552

Takefusa Kubo. Getty/Xavier Laine

613 - United States

Kevin Durant of Team USA. Getty/Ethan Miller

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RANKED: Every nation at the Tokyo Olympics by the number of athletes they have taken to Japan

2 - Andorra, Bermuda, Brunei, Central African Republic, Dominica, Lesotho, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Nauru, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Tuvalu

3 - Aruba, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, Chad, Comoros, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Liberia, Myanmar, Palau, Republic of the Congo, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, São Tomé and Príncipe, Suriname, Tanzania, Vanuatu

4 - Bhutan, Djibouti, Eswatini, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Iraq, Laos, Libya, Maldives, Mali, Oman, Sierra Leone, Togo, Virgin Islands

5 - Afghanistan, Bolivia, Cayman Islands, El Salvador, Gabon, Guam, Guinea, Liechtenstein, Malawi, Nepal, Palestine, Saint Lucia, San Marino, Seychelles, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Zimbabwe

6 - American Samoa, Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cape Verde, Cook Islands, Grenada, Haiti, Madagascar, Malta, Monaco, Rwanda, Syria, Tonga

7 - Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guyana, Niger

8 - Barbados, Lebanon, Mauritius, Nicaragua, North Macedonia, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Samoa

9 - Albania, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Turkmenistan

10 - Mozambique, Pakistan, Panama

11 - Kosovo, Kuwait, Namibia, Tajikistan, Uruguay

12 - Cameroon, Costa Rica, Luxembourg

13 - Botswana, Cyprus, Eritrea

14 - Ghana, Jordan

16 - Bahamas, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar

17 - Armenia

18 - Vietnam

19 - Moldova, Philippines

20 - Angola

21 - Honduras, Uganda

22 - Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago

23 - Guatemala

24 - Zambia

28 - Indonesia, Ivory Coast

29 - Fiji, Refugee Olympic Team, Saudi Arabia

30 - Finland, Georgia, Malaysia

32 - Bahrain

33 - Estonia, Latvia

34 - Montenegro, Peru

36 - Ethiopia

37 - Puerto Rico

41 - Ecuador, Lithuania, Slovakia

42 - Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Thailand

43 - Mongolia

44 - Algeria, Azerbaijan, Venezuela

50 - Jamaica, Morocco

52 - Nigeria

53 - Slovenia

57 - Chile

59 - Croatia, Chinese Taipei

60 - Austria, Dominican Republic

63 - Tunisia, Uzbekistan

66 - Iran

68 - Cuba

71 - Colombia

75 - Norway

83 - Greece

85 - Kenya

86 - Serbia

90 - Israel

92 - Portugal

93 - Kazakhstan

101 - Belarus, Romania

105 - Denmark

106 - Switzerland

108 - Turkey

115 - Czech Republic

116 - Republic of Ireland

121 - Belgium

125 - India

133 - Egypt

134 - Sweden

155 - Ukraine

164 - Mexico

166 - Hungary

174 - Argentina

177 - South Africa

210 - Poland

223 - New Zealand

236 - South Korea

274 - Netherlands

302 - Brazil

320 - Spain

328 - Russian Olympic Committee

370 - Canada

372 - Italy

376 - Great Britain

398 - France

406 - China