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First Geography Olympiad
First held
1996
The International Geography Olympiad, first held in The Hague.
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Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.
“The first iGeo was held in 1996 in The Hague”International Geography Olympiad / International Geographical Union: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
“1996”The Geographic Education Society of Japan / Takashi Kagawa, J-STAGE: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
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