# 2022 Winter Olympics Parade of Nations

During the Parade of Nations within the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics opening ceremony on February 4, athletes and officials from each participating country marched in the Beijing National Stadium preceded by their flag and placard bearer bearing the respective country's name. Each flag bearer was chosen either by the nation's National Olympic Committee or by the team of athletes themselves.

## Parade order

By tradition, Greece entered first as the originator of the Olympics, and China entered last as host. Per a new rule introduced by the International Olympic Committee at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Italy entered second-to-last as the upcoming host of the 2026 Winter Olympics. All nations in between entered in the order of the host nation's language, Simplified Chinese.
As part of sanctions due to the Russian doping scandal, Russia was not allowed to directly use its name or flag, and entered under the acronym "ROC" after the Russian Olympic Committee and its flag.
Announcers in the stadium read off the names of the marching nations in Mandarin Chinese (the official language of the host country), English and French (the official languages of the Olympics) with music accompanying the athletes as they marched into the stadium.
According to the current version of the Olympic Charter, each nation had the option of having two flag bearers (a man and a woman) in an effort to promote gender equality.

### Sort order

As Chinese characters do not have an alphabetical order, they were sorted based on stroke count. Specifically:
* Characters with fewer strokes march earlier, so San Marino (圣马力诺) marched before Kyrgyzstan (吉尔吉斯斯坦) because 圣 has 5 strokes and 吉 has 6 strokes.
* If the initial characters have the same number of strokes, then the stroke orders of the two characters are grouped in the order 橫竖撇捺折 (horizontal/vertical/left falling/right falling/fold). For example, Denmark (丹麦) marched before Brazil (巴西) because 丹 has four strokes in the order ㇓㇆㇔㇐ (3541), while 巴 has four strokes in the order ㇕丨㇐㇟ (5215).
** The second characters are not compared, even though 麦 has more strokes than 西.
* While it is possible to have a pair of characters with the same stroke count and the same stroke order groups, this did not occur during the parade. If the initial characters are identical, the second characters of each nation are used, and so on.

## List

The following is a list of each country's flag bearer. The list is sorted by the sequence that each nation appeared in the Parade of Nations. The names are given in their official designations by the IOC, and the Chinese names follow their official designations by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
| Order | Nation | Chinese name | Pinyin | Flag bearer | Sport/Function |
| 1 | Greece (GRE) | 希腊 | Xīlà | Apostolos Angelis | Cross-country skiing |
| 1 | Greece (GRE) | 希腊 | Xīlà | Maria Ntanou | Cross-country skiing |
| 2 | Turkey (TUR) | 土耳其 | Tǔěrqí | Furkan Akar | Short track speed skating |
| 2 | Turkey (TUR) | 土耳其 | Tǔěrqí | Aysenur Duman | Cross-country skiing |
| 3 | Malta (MLT) | 马耳他 | Mǎěrtā | Jenise Spiteri | Snowboarding |
| 4 | Madagascar (MAD) | 马达加斯加 | Mǎdájiāsījiā | Mialitiana Clerc | Alpine skiing |
| 4 | Madagascar (MAD) | 马达加斯加 | Mǎdájiāsījiā | Mathieu Neumuller | Alpine skiing |
| 5 | Malaysia (MAS) | 马来西亚 | Mǎláixīyà | Aruwin Salehhuddin | Alpine skiing |
| 5 | Malaysia (MAS) | 马来西亚 | Mǎláixīyà | Jeffrey Webb | Alpine skiing |
| 6 | Ecuador (ECU) | 厄瓜多尔 | Èguāduōěr | Sarah Escobar | Alpine skiing |
| 7 | Eritrea (ERI) | 厄立特里亚 | Èlìtélǐyà | Shannon-Ogbnai Abeda | Alpine skiing |
| 8 | Jamaica (JAM) | 牙买加 | Yámǎijiā | Benjamin Alexander | Alpine skiing |
| 8 | Jamaica (JAM) | 牙买加 | Yámǎijiā | Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian | Bobsleigh |
| 9 | Belgium (BEL) | 比利时 | Bǐlìshí | Loena Hendrickx | Figure skating |
| 9 | Belgium (BEL) | 比利时 | Bǐlìshí | Armand Marchant | Alpine skiing |
| 10 | Japan (JPN) | 日本 | Rìběn | Arisa Go | Speed skating |
| 10 | Japan (JPN) | 日本 | Rìběn | Akito Watabe | Nordic combined |
| 11 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 中华台北 | Zhōnghuá Táiběi | Huang Yu-ting | Speed skating |
| 11 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 中华台北 | Zhōnghuá Táiběi | Ho Ping-jui | Alpine skiing |
| 12 | Hong Kong, China (HKG) | 中国香港 | Zhōngguó Xiānggǎng | Sidney Chu | Short track speed skating |
| 13 | Denmark (DEN) | 丹麦 | Dānmài | Madeleine Dupont | Curling |
| 13 | Denmark (DEN) | 丹麦 | Dānmài | Frans Nielsen | Ice hockey |
| 14 | Ukraine (UKR) | 乌克兰 | Wūkèlán | Oleksandr Abramenko | Freestyle skiing |
| 14 | Ukraine (UKR) | 乌克兰 | Wūkèlán | Oleksandra Nazarova | Figure skating |
| 15 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 乌兹别克斯坦 | Wūzībiékèsītǎn | Komiljon Tukhtaev | Alpine skiing |
| 16 | Brazil (BRA) | 巴西 | Bāxī | Edson Bindilatti | Bobsleigh |
| 16 | Brazil (BRA) | 巴西 | Bāxī | Jaqueline Mourão | Cross-country skiing |
| 17 | Pakistan (PAK) | 巴基斯坦 | Bājīsītǎn | Muhammad Karim | Alpine skiing |
| 18 | Israel (ISR) | 以色列 | Yǐsèliè | Evgeni Krasnopolski | Figure skating |
| 18 | Israel (ISR) | 以色列 | Yǐsèliè | Noa Szollos | Alpine skiing |
| 19 | Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (TLS) | 东帝汶 | Dōngdìwèn | Yohan Goutt Gonçalves | Alpine skiing |
| 20 | North Macedonia (MKD) | 北马其顿 | Běimǎqídùn | Dardan Dehari | Alpine skiing |
| 21 | Luxembourg (LUX) | 卢森堡 | Lúsēnbǎo | Matthieu Osch | Alpine skiing |
| 21 | Luxembourg (LUX) | 卢森堡 | Lúsēnbǎo | Gwyneth ten Raa | Alpine skiing |
| 22 | Belarus (BLR) | 白俄罗斯 | Báiéluósī | Ignat Golovatsiuk | Speed skating |
| 22 | Belarus (BLR) | 白俄罗斯 | Báiéluósī | Hanna Nifantava | Speed skating |
| 23 | India (IND) | 印度 | Yìndù | Arif Khan | Alpine skiing |
| 24 | Lithuania (LTU) | 立陶宛 | Lìtáowǎn | Deividas Kizala | Figure skating |
| 24 | Lithuania (LTU) | 立陶宛 | Lìtáowǎn | Paulina Ramanauskaitė | Figure skating |
| 25 | Nigeria (NGR) | 尼日利亚 | Nírìlìyà | Seun Adigun | Team official |
| 26 | Ghana (GHA) | 加纳 | Jiānà | Carlos Mäder | Alpine skiing |
| 27 | Canada (CAN) | 加拿大 | Jiānádà | Charles Hamelin | Short track speed skating |
| 27 | Canada (CAN) | 加拿大 | Jiānádà | Marie-Philip Poulin | Ice hockey |
| 28 | San Marino (SMR) | 圣马力诺 | Shèng Mǎlìnuò | Matteo Gatti | Alpine skiing |
| 28 | San Marino (SMR) | 圣马力诺 | Shèng Mǎlìnuò | Anna Torsani | Alpine skiing |
| 29 | Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) | 吉尔吉斯斯坦 | Jíěrjísīsītǎn | Maksim Gordeev | Alpine skiing |
| 30 | Armenia (ARM) | 亚美尼亚 | Yàměiníyà | Tina Garabedian | Figure skating |
| 30 | Armenia (ARM) | 亚美尼亚 | Yàměiníyà | Mikayel Mikayelyan | Cross-country skiing |
| 31 | Spain (ESP) | 西班牙 | Xībānyá | Queralt Castellet | Snowboarding |
| 31 | Spain (ESP) | 西班牙 | Xībānyá | Ander Mirambell | Skeleton |
| 32 | Liechtenstein (LIE) | 列支敦士登 | Lièzhīdūnshìdēng | Stefan Marxer | Team official |
| 33 | Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) | 伊朗 | Yīlǎng | Atefeh Ahmadi | Alpine skiing |
| 33 | Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) | 伊朗 | Yīlǎng | Hossein Saveh-Shemshaki | Alpine skiing |
| 34 | Hungary (HUN) | 匈牙利 | Xiōngyálì | Zita Tóth | Alpine skiing |
| 34 | Hungary (HUN) | 匈牙利 | Xiōngyálì | Márton Kékesi | Alpine skiing |
| 35 | Iceland (ISL) | 冰岛 | Bīngdǎo | Kristrún Guðnadóttir | Cross-country skiing |
| 35 | Iceland (ISL) | 冰岛 | Bīngdǎo | Sturla Snær Snorrason | Alpine skiing |
| 36 | Andorra (AND) | 安道尔 | Āndàoěr | Maeva Estevez | Snowboarding |
| 37 | Finland (FIN) | 芬兰 | Fēnlán | Valtteri Filppula | Ice hockey |
| 38 | Croatia (CRO) | 克罗地亚 | Kèluódìyà | Zrinka Ljutić | Alpine skiing |
| 38 | Croatia (CRO) | 克罗地亚 | Kèluódìyà | Marko Skender | Cross-country skiing |
| 39 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | 沙特 | Shātè | Fayik Abdi | Alpine skiing |
| 40 | Albania (ALB) | 阿尔巴尼亚 | Āěrbāníyà | Denni Xhepa | Alpine skiing |
| 41 | Argentina (ARG) | 阿根廷 | Āgēntíng | Francesca Baruzzi | Alpine skiing |
| 41 | Argentina (ARG) | 阿根廷 | Āgēntíng | Franco Dal Farra | Cross-country skiing |
| 42 | Azerbaijan (AZE) | 阿塞拜疆 | Āsāibàijiāng | Vladimir Litvintsev | Figure skating |
| 43 | Latvia (LAT) | 拉脱维亚 | Lātuōwéiyà | Elīza Tīruma | Luge |
| 43 | Latvia (LAT) | 拉脱维亚 | Lātuōwéiyà | Lauris Dārziņš | Ice hockey |
| 44 | Great Britain (GBR) | 英国 | Yīngguó | Eve Muirhead | Curling |
| 44 | Great Britain (GBR) | 英国 | Yīngguó | Dave Ryding | Alpine skiing |
| 45 | Romania (ROU) | 罗马尼亚 | Luōmǎníyà | Raluca Strămăturaru | Luge |
| 45 | Romania (ROU) | 罗马尼亚 | Luōmǎníyà | Paul Pepene | Cross-country skiing |
| 46 | ROC (ROC) | ROC | | Olga Fatkulina | Speed skating |
| 46 | ROC (ROC) | ROC | | Vadim Shipachyov | Ice hockey |
| 47 | France (FRA) | 法国 | Fǎguó | Tessa Worley | Alpine skiing |
| 47 | France (FRA) | 法国 | Fǎguó | Kevin Rolland | Freestyle skiing |
| 48 | Poland (POL) | 波兰 | Bōlán | Aleksandra Król | Snowboarding |
| 48 | Poland (POL) | 波兰 | Bōlán | Zbigniew Bródka | Speed skating |
| 49 | Puerto Rico (PUR) | 波多黎各 | Bōduō Lígè | Kellie Delka | Skeleton |
| 49 | Puerto Rico (PUR) | 波多黎各 | Bōduō Lígè | William Flaherty | Alpine skiing |
| 50 | Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) | 波黑 | Bōhēi | Elvedina Muzaferija | Alpine skiing |
| 50 | Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) | 波黑 | Bōhēi | Mirza Nikolajev | Luge |
| 51 | Bolivia (BOL) | 玻利维亚 | Bōlìwéiyà | Simon Breitfuss Kammerlander | Alpine skiing |
| 52 | Norway (NOR) | 挪威 | Nuówēi | Kjetil Jansrud | Alpine skiing |
| 52 | Norway (NOR) | 挪威 | Nuówēi | Kristin Skaslien | Curling |
| 53 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 哈萨克斯坦 | Hāsàkèsītǎn | Yekaterina Aidova | Speed skating |
| 53 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 哈萨克斯坦 | Hāsàkèsītǎn | Abzal Azhgaliyev | Short track speed skating |
| 54 | Kosovo (KOS) | 科索沃 | Kēsuǒwò | Albin Tahiri | Alpine skiing |
| 55 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 保加利亚 | Bǎojiālìyà | Maria Zdravkova | Biathlon |
| 55 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 保加利亚 | Bǎojiālìyà | Radoslav Yankov | Snowboarding |
| 56 | United States of America (USA) | 美国 | Měiguó | Brittany Bowe | Speed skating |
| 56 | United States of America (USA) | 美国 | Měiguó | John Shuster | Curling |
| 57 | American Samoa (ASA) | 美属萨摩亚 | Měishǔ Sàmóyà | Nathan Crumpton | Skeleton |
| 58 | Virgin Islands, US (ISV) | 美属维尔京群岛 | Měishǔ Wéiěrjīng Qúndǎo | Volunteer | Volunteer |
| 59 | Thailand (THA) | 泰国 | Tàiguó | Karen Chanloung | Cross-country skiing |
| 59 | Thailand (THA) | 泰国 | Tàiguó | Nicola Zanon | Alpine skiing |
| 60 | Netherlands (NED) | 荷兰 | Hélán | Lindsay van Zundert | Figure skating |
| 60 | Netherlands (NED) | 荷兰 | Hélán | Kjeld Nuis | Speed skating |
| 61 | Georgia (GEO) | 格鲁吉亚 | Gélǔjíyà | Nino Tsiklauri | Alpine skiing |
| 61 | Georgia (GEO) | 格鲁吉亚 | Gélǔjíyà | Morisi Kvitelashvili | Figure skating |
| 62 | Colombia (COL) | 哥伦比亚 | Gēlúnbǐyà | Laura Gómez | Speed skating |
| 62 | Colombia (COL) | 哥伦比亚 | Gēlúnbǐyà | Carlos Andres Quintana | Cross-country skiing |
| 63 | Trinidad and Tobago (TTO) | 特立尼达和多巴哥 | Tèlìnídá hé Duōbāgē | Andre Marcano | Bobsleigh |
| 64 | Peru (PER) | 秘鲁 | Bìlǔ | Ornella Oettl Reyes | Alpine skiing |
| 65 | Ireland (IRL) | 爱尔兰 | Aìěrlán | Elsa Desmond | Luge |
| 65 | Ireland (IRL) | 爱尔兰 | Aìěrlán | Brendan Newby | Freestyle skiing |
| 66 | Estonia (EST) | 爱沙尼亚 | Aìshāníyà | Kelly Sildaru | Freestyle skiing |
| 66 | Estonia (EST) | 爱沙尼亚 | Aìshāníyà | Martin Himma | Cross-country skiing |
| 67 | Haiti (HAI) | 海地 | Hǎidì | Richardson Viano | Alpine skiing |
| 68 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 捷克 | Jiékè | Alena Mills | Ice hockey |
| 68 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 捷克 | Jiékè | Michal Březina | Figure skating |
| 69 | Philippines (PHI) | 菲律宾 | Fēilǜbīn | Asa Miller | Alpine skiing |
| 70 | Slovenia (SLO) | 斯洛文尼亚 | Sīluòwénníyà | Ilka Štuhec | Alpine skiing |
| 70 | Slovenia (SLO) | 斯洛文尼亚 | Sīluòwénníyà | Rok Marguč | Snowboarding |
| 71 | Slovakia (SVK) | 斯洛伐克 | Sīluòfákè | Marek Hrivik | Ice hockey |
| 71 | Slovakia (SVK) | 斯洛伐克 | Sīluòfákè | Katarina Simonakova | Luge |
| 72 | Portugal (POR) | 葡萄牙 | Pútáoyá | Ricardo Brancal | Alpine skiing |
| 72 | Portugal (POR) | 葡萄牙 | Pútáoyá | Vanina Guerillot | Alpine skiing |
| 73 | Republic of Korea (KOR) | 韩国 | Hánguó | Kim A-lang | Short track speed skating |
| 73 | Republic of Korea (KOR) | 韩国 | Hánguó | Kwak Yoon-gy | Short track speed skating |
| 74 | Montenegro (MNE) | 黑山 | Hēishān | Eldar Salihović | Alpine skiing |
| 74 | Montenegro (MNE) | 黑山 | Hēishān | Jelena Vujicic | Alpine skiing |
| 75 | Chile (CHI) | 智利 | Zhìlì | Dominique Ohaco | Freestyle skiing |
| 75 | Chile (CHI) | 智利 | Zhìlì | Henrik von Appen | Alpine skiing |
| 76 | Austria (AUT) | 奥地利 | Aòdìlì | Julia Dujmovits | Snowboarding |
| 76 | Austria (AUT) | 奥地利 | Aòdìlì | Benjamin Maier | Bobsleigh |
| 77 | Switzerland (SUI) | 瑞士 | Ruìshì | Andres Ambühl | Ice hockey |
| 77 | Switzerland (SUI) | 瑞士 | Ruìshì | Wendy Holdener | Alpine skiing |
| 78 | Sweden (SWE) | 瑞典 | Ruìdiǎn | Oliwer Magnusson | Freestyle skiing |
| 78 | Sweden (SWE) | 瑞典 | Ruìdiǎn | Emma Nordin | Ice hockey |
| 79 | Mongolia (MGL) | 蒙古 | Měnggǔ | Ariunsanaagiin Enkhtuul | Cross-country skiing |
| 79 | Mongolia (MGL) | 蒙古 | Měnggǔ | Batmönkhiin Achbadrakh | Cross-country skiing |
| 80 | New Zealand (NZL) | 新西兰 | Xīn Xīlán | Alice Robinson | Alpine skiing |
| 80 | New Zealand (NZL) | 新西兰 | Xīn Xīlán | Finn Bilous | Freestyle skiing |
| 81 | Serbia (SRB) | 塞尔维亚 | Sàiěrwéiyà | Marko Vukićević | Alpine skiing |
| 82 | Cyprus (CYP) | 塞浦路斯 | Sàipǔlùsī | Yianno Kouyoumdjian | Alpine skiing |
| 83 | Mexico (MEX) | 墨西哥 | Mòxīgē | Sarah Schleper | Alpine skiing |
| 83 | Mexico (MEX) | 墨西哥 | Mòxīgē | Donovan Carrillo | Figure skating |
| 84 | Lebanon (LIB) | 黎巴嫩 | Líbānèn | Manon Ouaiss | Alpine skiing |
| 84 | Lebanon (LIB) | 黎巴嫩 | Líbānèn | Cesar Arnouk | Alpine skiing |
| 85 | Germany (GER) | 德国 | Déguó | Francesco Friedrich | Bobsleigh |
| 85 | Germany (GER) | 德国 | Déguó | Claudia Pechstein | Speed skating |
| 86 | Republic of Moldova (MDA) | 摩尔多瓦 | Móěrduōwǎ | Doina Descalui | Luge |
| 87 | Monaco (MON) | 摩纳哥 | Mónàgē | Arnaud Alessandria | Alpine skiing |
| 88 | Morocco (MAR) | 摩洛哥 | Móluògē | Yassine Aouich | Alpine skiing |
| 89 | Australia (AUS) | 澳大利亚 | Àodàlìyǎ | Brendan Kerry | Figure skating |
| 89 | Australia (AUS) | 澳大利亚 | Àodàlìyǎ | Laura Peel | Freestyle skiing |
| 90 | Italy (ITA) | 意大利 | Yìdàlì | Michela Moioli | Snowboarding |
| 91 | People's Republic of China (CHN) | 中国 | Zhōngguó | Zhao Dan | Skeleton |
| 91 | People's Republic of China (CHN) | 中国 | Zhōngguó | Gao Tingyu | Speed skating |