page_title: 2018 Winter Olympics
section_title: The Games
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 Winter Olympics / The Games
caption_attribution_description: 한국어: 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games Opening Ceremony February 9, 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Plaza, Pyeongchang-gun, Gangwon-do
context_page_description: The 2018 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXIII Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as PyeongChang 2018, was an international winter multi-sport event that was held between 9 and 25 February 2018 in Pyeongchang County, Gangwon Province, South Korea, with the opening rounds for certain events held on 8 February 2018, the day before the opening ceremony.
  Pyeongchang was elected as the host city in July 2011, at the 123rd IOC Session in Durban, South Africa. This was the second time that South Korea had hosted the Olympic Games, having previously hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, but it was the first Winter Olympics to be held in the country. These were the first of three consecutive Olympic Games to be held in East Asia, the following two set to be the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. It was the third time that an East Asian country had hosted the Winter Games, after Sapporo and Nagano, both of these cities in Japan. It was also the first Winter Olympics to be held in mainland Asia.
  The Games featured 102 events over 15 disciplines, a record number of events for the Winter Games.
caption: Parade of Nations at 2018 Olympic Opening Ceremony
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