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Abbreviation | SEA Games |
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First event | 1959 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games in Bangkok, Thailand |
Occur every | 2 odd-numbered years |
Next event | 2025 Southeast Asian Games in Bangkok, Chonburi, and Songkhla, Thailand |
Purpose | Multi sport event for nations on the Southeast Asian subcontinent |
Headquarters | Bangkok, Thailand |
President | Charouck Arirachakaran |
The Southeast Asian Games, commonly known as SEA Games is a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 countries of Southeast Asia. The games are under the regulation of the Southeast Asian Games Federation with supervision by the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic Council of Asia.
The SEA Games is one of the five subregional Games of the Olympic Council of Asia, the others being South Asian Games, West Asian Games, East Asian Games, and Central Asian Games.[1]