List of world expositions

The statue of the Republic overlooks the Court of Honor and Grand Basin of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago

List of world expositions is an annotated list of every world exposition sanctioned by the Bureau of International Expositions (BIE), including those recognised retrospectively.

The designation "World Exposition" or "Expo" refers to a class of the largest, general scope exhibitions of 3 to 6 months' duration.

For other major international exhibitions, in addition to those endorsed by the BIE, see the comprehensive list at List of world's fairs.

List by date

Dates	Name of Exposition	Location[1]	Theme[2] or symbol[3]	Notables	Visitors in millions[4]	Cost (USD) in millions[4]	Area (ha)[4]
04/1851 - 10/1851	The Great Exhibition	London	Industry of all Nations	The Crystal Palace	6.00	1.65	10
05/1855 - 11/1855	Paris International	Paris	Agriculture, Industry and Art	Palais d'Industrie Bordeaux Wine	5.00	2	15
05/1862 - 11/1862	International	London	Industry and Arts		6.00	2	15
04/1867 - 11/1867	Paris International	Paris	Agriculture, Industry and Arts	Champ de Mars	15.00	4.5	69
05/1873 - 10/1873	Austrian International	Vienna	Culture and Education	Rotunde	7.25	9.5	233
05/1876 - 11/1876	Centennial Exposition	Philadelphia	American Independence	Centennial Arboretum Telephone Heinz Ketchup	10.00	8	115
05/1878 -11/1878	Paris International	Paris	Agriculture, Arts and Industry	Statue of Liberty Telephone Braille	16.00	11	75
09/1879 - 4/1880	Sydney International	Sydney	Agriculture, Arts and Industry	The Garden Palace, steam trams	1.1
10/1880 - 04/1881	Melbourne International	Melbourne	Arts, Manufacturing, Agriculture and Industry	Royal Exhibition Buildings & Carlton Gardens	1.30	1.6	25
1888 - 1888	Melbourne Centennial	Melbourne	Arts, Manufacturing, Agriculture and Industry	Royal Exhibition Buildings & Carlton Gardens
04/1888 - 12/1888	Barcelona International	Barcelona			2.30	1.7	47
05/1889 - 10/1889	Paris International	Paris	French Revolution	Eiffel Tower Annie Oakley	32.00	0.3	96
05/1893 - 10/1893	World's Columbian	Chicago	Discovery of America	Midway Plaisance Fine Arts Building Fluorescent lamp Ferris wheel	27.50	27	290
05/1897 - 11/1897	Brussels International	Brussels	Automobiles		7.80		132
04/1900 - 11/1900	Paris International	Paris	Evaluation of a Century	Motion Pictures Escalator Summer Olympics	50.80	18.75	120
04/1904 - 12/1904	Louisiana Purchase	St. Louis	Louisiana Purchase	Forest Park Palace of Fine Art Vulcan statue Summer Olympics	19.50	31.5	500
04/1905 - 11/1905	Liège International	Liège	Belgium Independence		7.00	2.9	70
04/1906 - 11/1906	Milan International	Milan	Transport	Electric Tramways	10.00	2.6	100
6/1909 - 10/1909	Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition	Seattle	Development of the Pacific Northwest		10.00	3.7	100
04/1910 - 11/1910	Brussels International	Brussels	Industries		13.00	3.5	90
04/1913 - 11/1913	Ghent International	Ghent			9.50	3.3	130
02/1915 - 12/1915	Panama-Pacific	San Francisco	Inauguration of the Panama Canal	Palace of Fine Arts Exploratorium	19.00	25.8	254
05/1929 - 01/1930	Spanish-American Exhibition	Seville	Spanish-American Exhibition	Plaza de España		25	118
05/1933 - 11/1933	Century of Progress	Chicago	A Century of Progress	Sky Ride Graf Zeppelin Homes of Tomorrow	48.60	42.9	170
04/1935 - 11/1935	Brussels International	Brussels	Transports, Colonisation		20.00	197 BEF	152
05/1937 - 11/1937	Paris International	Paris	Arts and Technology in modern life	Arc de Triomphe	31.00	1,400 FRF	105
04/1939 - 10/1940	New York World's Fair	New York	Building The World of Tomorrow	Flushing Park Bell Labs' Voder Magna Carta Sci-fi Convention	45.00[5]	155[6]	500
12/1949 - 06/1950	Port-au-Prince International	Port-au-Prince	Foundation of Port-au-Prince				30
07/1958 - 09/1958	Brussels World's Fair	Brussels	A more human world	Heysel Atomium	41.00	2,500 BEF	200
04/1962 - 10/1962	Century 21 Exposition	Seattle	Man in the Space Age	Seattle Center Space Needle Seattle Monorail	9.60[7]	47[7]	30
04/1964 - 10/1965	New York World's Fair	New York	Man's Achievement on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe	Unisphere Audio-Animatronics
04/1967 - 10/1967	Expo '67	Montreal	Man and His World Land	Montreal Metro Habitat '67 Montreal Biosphère	50.00	431 CAD
04/1968 - 10/1968	HemisFair '68	San Antonio	Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas	Tower of the Americas Institute of Texan Cultures HemisFair Arena	6.40[8]	156[8]	93 acres[8]
03/1970 - 09/1970	Expo '70	Osaka	Progress and Harmony for Mankind	Tower of the Sun Moon rock Electric Cars[9]	64.00	30 Profit[9]	815 acres[9]
05/1974 - 11/1974	Expo '74	Spokane	Tomorrow's Fresh New Environment	IMAX[10]	4.80	78.4	41[10]
05/1982 - 10/1982	1982 World's Fair	Knoxville	Energy Turns the World	Sunsphere	11.00	42[11]	30[11]
05/1984 - 11/1984	1984 World's Fair	New Orleans	The worlds of Rivers	Convention Center	7.30	350	84 acres[12]
03/1985 - 09/1985	1985 World's Fair	Tsukuba	Dwellings and Surroundings - Science and Technology for Man at Home		20.3		acres[13]
05/1986 - 10/1986	Expo '86	Vancouver	Transportation and Communication	Science World Skytrain BC Place Canada Place	22.11	311 CAD	70
04/1988 - 10/1988	Expo '88	Brisbane	Leisure in the Age of Technology	Sunsails, Skyneedle	18.00	625 AUD	40
04/1992 - 10/1992	Expo '92	Seville	The Era of Discovery		41.80		215
08/1993 - 11/1993	Expo '93	Daejeon	The Challenge of a New Road of Development	Daejeon Expo Park, Daejeon Museum of Art			25
05/1998 - 09/1998	Expo '98	Lisbon	The Oceans: A Heritage for the Future	Pavilhão Atlântico Lisbon Oceanarium Pavilion of Portugal	11.00		70
06/2000 - 10/2000	Expo 2000	Hanover	Humankind, Nature, Technology	Hannover Principles	18.00	10.2 DEM	160
03/2005 - 09/2005	Expo 2005	Aichi	Nature's Wisdom	My Neighbor Totoro ASIMO	22.04		173
06/2008 - 09/2008	Expo 2008	Zaragoza	Water and Sustainable development	Bridge Pavilion Water Tower

ASIMO at Expo 2005 in Japan.

Planned Expositions

Date[1]	Location[1]	Name of Exposition	Theme[2] or symbol[3]
2010	Shanghai	Expo 2010	Better City, Better Life
2012	Yeosu	Expo 2012	The Living Ocean and Coast
2015	Milan	Expo 2015	Feeding the planet, energy for life

Proposed Expositions

• 2017 Edmonton
• 2020 Manila / Houston / New York / San Francisco / Rio de Janeiro / Dubai

List by Country

The Crystal Palace in London, 1851

World Expo '88 Sunsails Logo

Country	City	Name of Exposition	Attending Countries	Year
Australia	Sydney Melbourne Melbourne Brisbane	Sydney International Melbourne International Melbourne Centennial World Expo 88	33 36	1879 1880 1888 1988
Austria (formerly Austria-Hungary)	Vienna	Austrian International	35	1873
Belgium	Brussels Ghent Liège	Brussels International Brussels International Brussels International Brussels World's Fair Ghent International Liège International	27 30 42 26 31	1897 1910 1935 1958 1913 1905
Canada	Montreal Vancouver	Expo 67 Expo 86	62 54	1967 1986
France	Paris	Paris International Paris International Paris International Paris International Paris International Paris International	25 42 36 35 58 44	1855 1867 1878 1889 1900 1937
Germany	Hanover	Expo 2000	155	2000
Haiti	Port-au-Prince	Port-au-Prince International	33	1949
Italy	Milan	Milan International	25	1906
Japan	Aichi Tsukuba Osaka	Expo 2005 Expo '85 Expo '70	121 111 75	2005 1985 1970
Portugal	Lisbon	Expo '98	146	1998
South Korea	Daejeon	Expo '93	108	1993
Spain	Barcelona Seville   Zaragoza	Barcelona International Spanish-American Exhibition Seville Expo '92 Expo Zaragoza 2008	30 108 108	1888 1929 1992 2008
United Kingdom	London	The Great Exhibition International	25 39	1851 1862
United States	Chicago   Knoxville New Orleans New York City   Philadelphia San Antonio San Francisco Seattle Spokane St. Louis	World's Columbian Century of Progress 1982 World's Fair 1984 World's fair New York World's Fair New York World's Fair Centennial Exposition HemisFair '68 Panama-Pacific Century 21 Exposition Expo '74 Louisiana Purchase	19 21 21 26 60   35 23 32 11[10] 62	1893 1933 1982 1984 1939 1964 1876 1968 1915 1962 1974 1904

References

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2. ^ ^{a b} "ExpoMuseum". http://www.expomuseum.com/. Retrieved 2006-07-16. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "Symbols". International Exhibitions Bureau. http://www.bie-paris.org/main/index.php?p=30&m2=43. Retrieved 2006-07-16. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} "BIE homepage". International Exhibitions Bureau. http://www.bie-paris.org/main/index.php?m=-1. Retrieved 2006-07-19. 
5. ^ "Statistics of previous World Expositions". http://www.expo2005-china.com/expo05/servlet/expo05.base.FrontXmlENServlet?handler=608&operate=ViewUI&Id=000000000000000000000002000005FF. Retrieved 2006-07-17. 
6. ^ "NY 1939 facts". http://www.earthstation9.com/index.html?1962_sea.htm. Retrieved 2006-07-18. 
7. ^ ^{a b} "Seattlea facts". http://www.earthstation9.com/index.html?1970_osa.htm. Retrieved 2006-07-17. 
8. ^ ^{a b c} "San Antonio facts". http://www.earthstation9.com/index.html?1962_sea.htm. Retrieved 2006-07-21. 
9. ^ ^{a b c} "Osaka facts". http://www.earthstation9.com/index.html?1970_osa.htm. Retrieved 2006-07-17. 
10. ^ ^{a b c} "Spokane facts". http://www.earthstation9.com/index.html?1962_sea.htm. Retrieved 2006-07-21. 
11. ^ ^{a b} "Knoxville facts". http://www.earthstation9.com/index.html?1962_sea.htm. Retrieved 2006-07-21. 
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13. ^ "Tsukuba facts". http://expomuseum.com/1985/. Retrieved 2006-12-28. 

See also

• List of world's fairs
• Colonial exhibition
• Human zoo