A list of cities that have hosted the Olympic games in the past.
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Summer GamesWinter Games
1896-Athens, GreeceNone
1900 Paris, FranceNone
1904-St. Louis, MissouriNone
1906-Athens, GreeceNone
1908 London, UKNone
1912-Stockholm, SwedenNone
1916 Berlin, Germany (not held)None
1920-Antwerp, BelgiumNone
1924-Paris, France1924-Chamonix, France
1928-Amsterdam, Netherlands1928-St. Moritz, Switzerland
1932-Los Angeles, California1932-Lake Placid, New York
1936-Berlin, Germany1936-Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany
1940-Tokyo, Japan (not held)1940-Sapporo, Japan (not held)
1944-London, UK (not held)1944-Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy (not held)
1948-London, UK1948-St. Moritz, Switzerland
1952-Helsinki, Finland1952-Oslo, Norway
1956-Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (Equestrian events only) 1956-Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy
1960-Rome, Italy1960-Squaw Valley, California
1964-Tokyo, Japan1964-Innsbruck, Austria
1968-Mexico City, Mexico1968-Grenoble, France
1972-Munich, Germany1972-Sapporo, Japan
1976-Montreal, Quebec, Canada1976-Innsbruck, Austria
1980 Moscow, Russia1980-Lake Placid, New York
1984-Los Angeles, California1984-Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
1988-Seoul, South Korea1988-Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1992-Barcelona, Spain1992-Albertville, France
 1994-Lillehammer, Norway
1996-Atlanta, Georgia1998-Nagano, Japan
2000-Sydney, Australia2002-Salt Lake City, Utah
2004-Athens, Greece2006-Turin, Italy
2008-Beijing, China2010-Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2012-London, Great Britain 2014-Sochi, Russia
2016-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil2018-Pyeongchang, South Korea
2020-Tokyo, Japan2022-Beijing, China

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