Route for 2008 Olympic torch relay

The torch for the 2008 Olympic Games has been lit successfully in ancient Olympia, Greece. The torch will begin a 130-day, 85,000-mile journey starting Monday. That will take it from the site of Olympia to Beijing, where the Summer Games is scheduled for August.

While much of the trip will be aboard a chartered jet, tens of thousands of torch-bearers, including 19,400 in China, will carry the flame on foot through 23 cities on five continents and then throughout China, where tens of millions of ordinary people have been aspiring to see the arrival of the torch.

 

The Planned Route

Date	Arrival		Date	Arrival		Date	Arrival
March 24	Lighting Ceremony at Olympia		May 20-21	Shanghai		June 30	Gansu	Lanzhou
March 24-29	Torch Relay in Greece		May 22	Jiangsu	Suzhou	July 2	Ningxia	Zhongwei
March 30	Greece Hand-over Ceremony		May 22		Nantong	July 3		Wuzhong
March 31	Beijing		May 23		Taizhou	July 4		Yinchuan
April 1	Heading to Almaty		May 23		Yangzhou	July 5	Shaanxi	Yan'an
April 2	Almaty		May 24		Nanjing	July 6		Yangling
April 3	Istanbul		May 26	Anhui	Hefei	July 6		Xianyang
April 5	St. Petersburg		May 27		Huainan	July 7		Xi'an
April 6	London		May 27		Wuhu	July 8	Shanxi	Yuncheng
April 7	Paris		May 28		Jixi	July 8		Pingyao
April 9	San Francisco		May 28		Huangshan	July 9		Taiyuan
April 11	Buenos Aires		May 29	Hubei	Wuhan	July 10		Datong
April 13	Dar es Salaam		May 30		Yichang	July 11	Inner Mongolia	Hohhot
April 14	Muscat		May 31		Jingzhou	July 12		Ordos
April 16	Islamabad		June 1	Hunan	Yueyang	July 12		Baotou
April 17	New Delhi		June 2		Changsha	July 13		Chifeng
April 19	Bangkok		June 3		Shaoshan	July 14	Heilongjiang	Qiqihar
April 21	Kuala Lumpur		June 4	Guangxi	Guilin	July 15		Daqing
April 22	Jakarta		June 5		Nanning	July 16		Harbin
April 24	Canberra		June 6		Baise	July 17	Jilin	Songyuan
April 26	Nagano		June 7	Yunnan	Kunming	July 17		Changchun
April 27	Seoul		June 8		Lijiang	July 18		Jilin
April 28	Pyongyang		June 9		Xamgyi'nyilha	July 19		Yanji
April 29	Ho Chi Minh City		June 10	Guizhou	Guiyang	July 20	Liaoniing	Shenyang
May 2	Hong Kong		June 11		Kaili	July 21		Benxi
			June 12		Zunyi	July 21		Liaoyang
May 3	Macao		June 13-14	Chongqing		July 21		Anshan
May 4	Hainan	Sanya	June 15	Sichuan	Guang'an	July 22		Dalian
May 5		Wuzhishan	June 15		Mianyang	July 23	Shandong	Yantai
May 5		Wanning	June 16		Guanghan	July 23		Weihai
May 6		Haikou	June 16		Leshan	July 24		Qingdao
May 7	Guangdong	Guangzhou	June 17		Zigong	July 24		Rizhao
May 8		Shenzhen	June 17		Yibin	July 25		Linyi
May 9		Huizhou	June 18		Chengdu	July 25		Qufu
May 10		Shantou	June 19	Tibet	Shannan Diqu	July 25		Taian
May 11	Fujian	Fuzhou	June 20-21		Lhasa	July 26		Jinan
May 12		Quanzhou	June 22	Qinghai	Golmud	July 28	Henan	Shangqiu
May 12		Xiamen	June 23		Qinghai Hu	July 28		Kaifeng
May 13		Longyan	June 24		Xining	July 29		Zhengzhou
May 14	Jiangxi	Ruijin	June 25	Xinjiang	Urumqi	July 30		Luoyang
May 15		Jinggangshan	June 26		Kashi	July 31		Anyang
May 16		Nanchang	June 27		Shihezi	August 1	Hebei	Shijiazhuang
May 17	Zhejiang	Wenzhou	June 27		Changji	August 2		Qinhuangdao
May 17		Shaoxing	June 28	Gansu	Dunhuang	August 3		Tangshan
May 18		Hangzhou	June 28		Jiayuguan	August 4-5	Tianjin
May 19		Ningbo	June 29		Jiuquan	August 6-8	Beijing
May 19		Jiaxing	June 30		Tianshui