where were the summer olympics held in 2016
2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (Portuguese: Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016),[a] officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad and commonly known as Rio 2016, were a major international multi-sport event held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 5 to 21 August 2016, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August. They were the first Olympic Games ever held in South America.
Summer Olympic Games The Summer Olympics has been hosted on five continents by a total of nineteen different countries. The United States has hosted the Games more times than any other nation (in 1904, 1932, 1984 and 1996). The Games have also been held three times in Great Britain (in 1908, 1948 and 2012); twice each in Greece (1896, 2004), France (1900, 1924), Germany (1936, 1972) and Australia (1956, 2000); and once each in Sweden (1912), Belgium (1920), Netherlands (1928), Finland (1952), Italy (1960), Japan (1964), Mexico (1968), Canada (1976), Soviet Union (1980), South Korea (1988), Spain (1992), China (2008) and Brazil (2016).