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Olympic Games: the grand opening VI

How order of the stadium entering is decided? It is based on the number of strokes in the first character of the Chinese translation for the country names. For example Chad is translated into 乍得, and the first character 乍 is composed of five strokes, while Bahamas is translated into 巴哈马, and the first character has four strokes, so it preceded Chad when entering the stadium.

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