page_title: Expo 2015
section_title: Countries
hierarchical_section_title: Expo 2015 / Participants / Countries
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Passaporto di Expo 2015 Milano con i timbri della Comunità Caraibica e dei suoi membri partecipanti al cluster isole. English: Expo 2015 Milano passport with the stamps of Caribbean Community and its members participating in the Islands cluster.
context_page_description: Expo 2015 was a World Expo hosted by Milan, Italy. It opened on May 1 at 10:00 CEST and closed on October 31. Milan hosted an exposition for the second time; the first was the 1906 Milan International.
  The Bureau International des Expositions general assembly in Paris decided in favour of Milan on March 31, 2008. On November 23, 2010, the event was announced by the BIE. Expo 2015's theme was "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life".
context_section_description: Each participating country was hosted in a self-constructed pavilion and included on the Expo website. Some countries, such as Belarus, Belgium, Israel and
  Germany, created external websites. As part of a reciprocity protocol with Expo 2010 in Shanghai, on December 8, 2008, China was the first country to formalise its participation in Expo 2015. The first country outside the reciprocity protocol to confirm its participation was Switzerland, on February 3, 2011. As in other years, during the Expo visitors could purchase a passport which could be stamped.
  Two major countries which did NOT participate were Australia and Canada, who withdrew despite participating in the previous Expo in Shanghai, citing budgetary restrictions.
  The following countries participated:
  Afghanistan
  Albania
  Algeria
  Angola
  Argentina
  Armenia
  Austria
  Azerbaijan
  Bahrain
  Bangladesh
  Belarus
  Belgium
  Benin
  Bolivia
  Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Brazil
  Brunei
  Burundi
  Cambodia
  Cameroon
  Cape Verde
  Central African Republic
  Chile
  China
  Colombia
  Comoros
  Republic of the Congo
  Croatia
  Cuba
  Czech Republic
  Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Djibouti
  Dominica
  Dominican Republic
  Ecuador
  Egypt
  El Salvador
  Equatorial Guinea
  Eritrea
  Estonia
  Ethiopia
  France
  Gabon
  Gambia
  Georgia
  Germany
  Ghana
  Greece
  Grenada
  Guatemala
  Guinea
  Guinea-Bissau
  Haiti
  Holy See
  Honduras
  Hungary
  Indonesia
  Iran
  Ireland
  Israel
  Italy
  Ivory Coast
  Japan
  Kazakhstan
  Kenya
  Kuwait
  Kyrgyzstan
  Laos
  Lebanon
  Lithuania
  Madagascar
  Malaysia
  Maldives
  Malta
  Mauritania
  Mexico
  Moldova
  Monaco
  Montenegro
  Morocco
  Mozambique
  Nepal
  Netherlands
  North Korea
  Oman
  Poland
  Qatar
  Romania
  Russia
  Rwanda
  San Marino
  São Tomé and Príncipe
  Senegal
  Serbia
  Sierra Leone
  Slovakia
  Slovenia
  Somalia
  South Korea (as Republic of Korea)
  Spain
  Sri Lanka
  Switzerland
  Tanzania
  Thailand
  Timor-Leste
  Togo
  Tunisia
  Turkey
  Turkmenistan
  Uganda
  United Arab Emirates
  United Kingdom
  United States
  Uruguay
  Uzbekistan
  Vanuatu
  Venezuela
  Vietnam
  Yemen
  Zambia
  Zimbabwe
caption: Expo passport
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