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The 2008 Summer Olympic Games , officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and commonly known as Beijing 2008 , was a major international multi - sport event that took place in Beijing , ___MASK39___ , from 8 to 24 August 2008 . A total of 10 , 942 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees ( NOCs ) competed in 28 sports and 302 events ( a total of one event more than the schedule of the 2004 Games ). ___MASK39___ became the 22nd nation to host the Olympic Games and the 18th to hold a Summer Olympic Games . It was the third time that the Summer Olympic Games were held in East Asia and Asia , after Tokyo , Japan , in 1964 and Seoul , South Korea , in 1988 . The 2010 European Aquatics Championships were held from 4  15 August 2010 in Budapest and Balatonfüred , ___MASK27___ . It was the fourth time that the city of Budapest hosts this event after 1926 , 1958 and 2006 . Events in swimming , diving , synchronised swimming ( synchro ) and open water swimming were scheduled . ___MASK17___ ( tr . ) is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe , bordered by Russia to the east and northeast , Belarus to the northwest , Poland and Slovakia to the west , Hungary , Romania , and Moldova to the southwest , and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast , respectively . ___MASK17___ is currently in territorial dispute with Russia over the Crimean Peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014 but which ___MASK17___ and most of the international community recognise as Ukrainian . Including Crimea , ___MASK17___ has an area of , making it the largest country entirely within Europe and the 46th largest country in the world . It has a population of about 44 . 5 million , making it the 32nd most populous country in the world . ___MASK27___ is a unitary parliamentary republic in Central Europe . It covers an area of , situated in the Carpathian Basin and bordered by ___MASK74___ to the north , Romania to the east , Serbia to the south , Croatia to the southwest , Slovenia to the west , Austria to the northwest , and ___MASK17___ to the northeast . With about 10 million inhabitants , ___MASK27___ is a medium - sized member state of the European Union . The official language is Hungarian , which is the most widely spoken Uralic language in the world . ___MASK27___ ' s capital and largest metropolis is Budapest , a significant economic hub , classified as an Alpha - global city . Major urban areas include Debrecen , Szeged , Miskolc , Pécs and Gyr . Balatonfüred is a popular resort town in Veszprém county , in ___MASK27___ , with a population of 13 , 000 , situated on the northern shore of Lake Balaton . It is considered to be the capital of the Northern lake shore and is a popular yachting destination . It is also a favorite location for fishing , carp being the most common catch , although the introduction of eels and other non - indigenous species has caused ecological damage in recent years . Beijing ( formerly romanised as Peking ) is the capital of the People ' s Republic of ___MASK39___ and the world ' s third most populous city proper . It is also one of the world ' s most populous capital cities . The city , located in northern ___MASK39___ , is governed as a direct - controlled municipality under the national government with 16 urban , suburban , and rural districts . Beijing Municipality is surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighbouring Tianjin Municipality to the southeast ; together the three divisions form the Jingjinji metropolitan region and the national capital region of ___MASK39___ . Illya Olehovych Kvasha ( born 5 March 1988 ) is a Ukrainian diver . Competing with Oleksiy Prygorov , he won the bronze medal in the 3 m spring synchro at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . Kvasha is also a multiple European champion . Kharkiv Oblast ( translit . " Charkivka oblastj "; also referred to as Kharkivshchyna  "", , translit . " Charjkovskaja oblastj ") is an oblast ( province ) in eastern ___MASK17___ . The oblast borders Russia to the north , Luhansk Oblast to the east , Donetsk Oblast to the south - east , Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to the south - west , Poltava Oblast to the west and Sumy Oblast to the north - west . The area of the oblast is 31 , 400 km² , corresponding to 5 . 2 % of the total territory of ___MASK17___ . Asia is ___MASK90___ ' s largest and most populous continent , located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres and sharing the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe . Asia covers an area of , about 30 % of ___MASK90___ ' s total land area and 8 . 7 % of the ___MASK90___ ' s total surface area . The continent , which has long been home to the majority of the human population , was the site of many of the first civilizations . Asia is notable for not only its overall large size and population , but also dense and large settlements as well as vast barely populated regions within the continent of 4 . 4 billion people . Seoul (  )  officially the Seoul Special City  is the capital and largest metropolis of the Republic of ___MASK88___ ( commonly known as ___MASK92___ ), forming the heart of the Seoul Capital Area , which includes the surrounding Incheon metropolis and Gyeonggi province , the world ' s 16th largest city . It is home to over half of all South Koreans along with 678 , 102 international residents . Oleksiy Pryhorov ( Ukrainian :    ; born June 25 , 1987 in Kharkiv ) is a Ukrainian diver who won the bronze medal in the 3 m spring synchro along with Illya Kvasha in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . The duo won gold at the same event during the 2010 European Aquatics Championships . Tokyo , officially Tokyo Metropolis , is the capital of ___MASK84___ and one of its 47 prefectures . The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world . It is the seat of the Emperor of ___MASK84___ and the Japanese government . Tokyo is in the Kant region on the southeastern side of the main island Honshu and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands . Formerly known as Edo , it has been the de facto seat of government since 1603 when Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu made the city his headquarters . It officially became the capital after Emperor Meiji moved his seat to the city from the old capital of Kyoto in 1868 ; at that time Edo was renamed Tokyo . Tokyo Metropolis was formed in 1943 from the merger of the former and the . Hebei ( postal : Hopeh ) is a province of ___MASK39___ in the North ___MASK39___ region . Its one - character abbreviation is "" ( Jì ), named after Ji Province , a Han Dynasty province (" zhou ") that included what is now southern Hebei . The name " Hebei " literally means " north of the river ", referring to its location entirely to the north of the Huang He  ( Yellow River ). Budapest is the capital and most populous city of ___MASK27___ , one of the largest cities in the European Union and sometimes described as the primate city of ___MASK27___ . It has an area of and a population of about 1 . 8 million within the administrative limits in 2016 . It is both a city and county , and forms the centre of the Budapest Metropolitan Area , which has an area of and a population of 3 . 3 million , comprising 33 percent of the population of ___MASK27___ . Budapest became a single city occupying both banks of the Danube river with the unification of Buda and Óbuda on the west bank , with Pest on the east bank on November 17 , 1873 . Tianjin , formerly romanized as Tientsin , is a metropolis in northern coastal Mainland ___MASK39___ , administered by the People ' s Republic of ___MASK39___ and one of the five national central cities of ___MASK39___ , with a total municipal population of 15 , 469 , 500 . It is governed as one of the four direct - controlled municipalities of the PRC and is thus under direct administration of the central government . Tianjin borders Hebei Province and Beijing Municipality , bounded to the east by the Bohai Gulf portion of the Yellow Sea . Part of the Bohai Economic Rim , it is the largest coastal city in northern ___MASK39___ . East Asia is the eastern subregion of the Asian continent , which can be defined in either geographical or ethno - cultural terms . Geographically and geopolitically , it includes ___MASK39___ , Hong Kong , and Macao ; Mongolia and Taiwan ; North and South Korea ; and Japan ; it covers about , or about 28 % of the Asian continent , about twice the area of Europe . The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad , first held in 1896 , is an international multi - sport event that is hosted by a different city every four years . The most recent Olympics were held in Rio de Janeiro , ___MASK76___ . The International Olympic Committee organizes the games and oversees the host city ' s preparations . In each Olympic event , gold medals are awarded for first place , silver medals are awarded for second place , and bronze medals are awarded for third ; this tradition began in 1904 . The Winter Olympic Games were created due to the success of the Summer Olympics . Kharkiv (,) is the second - largest city in ___MASK17___ . In the northeast of the country , it is the largest city of the Slobozhanshchyna historical region . The city has a population of about 1 . 5 million people . Kharkiv is the administrative centre of Kharkiv Oblast and of the surrounding Kharkiv district .