RANKED: Every nation at the Tokyo Olympics by the number of athletes they have taken to Japan
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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
4 - Bhutan, Djibouti, Eswatini, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Iraq, Laos, Libya, Maldives, Mali, Oman, Sierra Leone, Togo, Virgin Islands
Team Iraq.
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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
6 - American Samoa, Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cape Verde, Cook Islands, Grenada, Haiti, Madagascar, Malta, Monaco, Rwanda, Syria, Tonga
Quentin Antognelli of Monaco.
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7 - Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guyana, Niger
Niger's Abdoulrazak Issoufou Alfaga (L).
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8 - Barbados, Lebanon, Mauritius, Nicaragua, North Macedonia, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Samoa
Team Barbados.
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9 - Albania, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Turkmenistan
Gulbadam Babamuratova of Turkmenistan (L).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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