Mediterranean Games
Host cities
No inland city has ever hosted the games. All but one of the host cities to date have been situated on the Mediterranean coast (Casablanca is located on the Atlantic coast).

Mediterranean Games

Section Title: Host cities
Table Section Text: No inland city has ever hosted the games. All but one of the host cities to date have been situated on the Mediterranean coast (Casablanca is located on the Atlantic coast).

No	Year	Host Country	Host City	Opened by	Nations	Competitors	Sports	Events	Top Country On Medal Table

Men	Women	Total

I	1951	Egypt	Alexandria	Farouk I	10	734	--	734	14	91	Italy

II	1955	Spain	Barcelona	Francisco Franco	10	1135	--	1135	20	102	France

III	1959	Lebanon	Beirut	Fuad Chehab	11	792	--	792	17	106	France

IV	1963	Italy	Naples	Antonio Segni	13	1057	--	1057	17	93	Italy

V	1967	Tunisia	Tunis	Habib Bourguiba	12	1211	38	1249	14	93	Italy

VI	1971	Turkey	İzmir	Cevdet Sunay	14	1235	127	1362	18	137	Italy

VII	1975	Algeria	Algiers	Houari Boumédiène	15	2095	349	2444	19	160	Italy

VIII	1979	Yugoslavia	Split	Josip Broz Tito	14	2009	399	2408	26	192	Yugoslavia

IX	1983	Morocco	Casablanca	Hassan II	16	1845	335	2180	20	162	Italy

X	1987	Syria	Latakia	Hafez al-Assad	18	1529	467	1996	19	162	Italy

XI	1991	Greece	Athens	Konstantinos Karamanlis	18	2176	586	2762	24	217	Italy

XII	1993	France	Languedoc-Roussillon	François Mitterrand	20	1994	604	2598	24	217	France

XIII	1997	Italy	Bari	Oscar Luigi Scalfaro	21	2195	804	2999	27	234	Italy

XIV	2001	Tunisia	Tunis	Zine El Abidine Ben Ali	23	2002	1039	3041	23	230	France

XV	2005	Spain	Almería	Juan Carlos I	21	2134	1080	3214	27	258	Italy

XVI	2009	Italy	Pescara	Renato Schifani	23	2183	1185	3368	28	244	Italy

XVII	2013	Turkey	Mersin	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	24	1994	1070	3064	27	264	Italy

XVIII	2018	Spain	Tarragona	Felipe VI	26	2656	1885	4541	28	246	Italy

XIX	2021	Algeria	Oran	Future Event

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The Mediterranean Games were inaugurated in 1951, in Alexandria, Egypt, with 734 participants from 10 countries.

final_sentence: The Mediterranean Games were inaugurated in 1951, in Alexandria, Egypt, with 734 participants from 10 countries.