The Asian Indoor Games is a multi-sport event

Multi-sport event

A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports between organized teams of athletes from nation-states. The first major, modern, multi-sport event of international significance was the modern Olympic Games.Many...

 held every two years among athletes representing countries from Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

. The games are regulated by the Olympic Council of Asia

Olympic Council of Asia

The Olympic Council of Asia is a governing body of sports in Asia, currently with 45 member National Olympic Committees. The current president is Sheikh Fahad Al-Sabah. The oldest NOC is from Japan and Philippines, recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1911; whereas East Timor is...

. The first games were held in 2005 in Bangkok

Bangkok

Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...

, Thailand

Thailand

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.

This Games consist of sports with TV broadcasting potential and not included in the Asian Games and Winter Asian Games Programs and are not Olympic sports. The sports program will consist of six to eight exciting sports with strong television appeal, including electronic sports

Electronic sports

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, extreme sports, aerobics, acrobatics, indoor athletics, dance sports, futsal, inline hockey, fin swimming, and 25 metres short course swimming. The 2007 Asian Indoor Games in Macau

Macau

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 also saw the first major test of FIBA 33

FIBA 33

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, a formalized version of three-on-three basketball that saw its official worldwide debut at the 2010 Youth Olympics

2010 Summer Youth Olympics

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. FIBA 33 was also contested in the 2009 Games.

In 2013 the games will be merged with the Asian Martial Arts Games

Asian Martial Arts Games

The Asian Martial Arts Games is a multi-sport event to be held every two years among athletes representing countries from Asia. The games are regulated by the Olympic Council of Asia...

 and be known as the Asian Indoor-Martial Arts Games

Asian Indoor-Martial Arts Games

The Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games will be a new multi-sport event to début in 2013 among athletes representing countries from Asia, after the merger of the Asian Indoor Games and the Asian Martial Arts Games....

, which will henceforth be held once every four years. This would leave the OCA

Olympic Council of Asia

The Olympic Council of Asia is a governing body of sports in Asia, currently with 45 member National Olympic Committees. The current president is Sheikh Fahad Al-Sabah. The oldest NOC is from Japan and Philippines, recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1911; whereas East Timor is...

 with five events as opposed to six in the current schedule.

List of Asian Indoor Games

The number of gold medal per delegation is indicated in brackets.

Year	Games	Host	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
2005	I 2005 Asian Indoor Games The 1st Asian Indoor Games were held in Bangkok, Thailand fromNovember 12, 2005 to November 19, 2005.-Emblem:For the “Logo” of the 1st Asian Indoor Games itself, it comprises 9 sparkling stars, reflecting the opinions of the Asian people at large:...	Bangkok Bangkok Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...
2007	II 2007 Asian Indoor Games The 2nd Asian Indoor Games were held in Macau, China from 26 October 2007 to 3 November 2007. Most events of the games took place at the Macao East Asian Games Dome.-Emblem:...	Macau Macau Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...
2009	III 2009 Asian Indoor Games The 3rd Asian Indoor Games were held in Vietnam on 30 October – 8 November, 2009.-Emblem:The logo is the logical, scientific and proper combination of the features, both strong and flexible, of the typical motifs of sports games in Vietnam like the torch, the lotus and the symbol of the...	Hanoi Hanoi Hanoi , is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city. Its population in 2009 was estimated at 2.6 million for urban districts, 6.5 million for the metropolitan jurisdiction. From 1010 until 1802, it was the most important political centre of Vietnam...
2011	IV 2011 Asian Indoor Games The 4th Asian Indoor Games was scheduled be hosted in Doha, Qatar that announced on the Olympic Council of AsiaNational Olympic Committee Meeting in Kuwait on April 16, 2007.-Doha withdrawn:...	Doha Doha Doha is the capital city of the state of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf, it had a population of 998,651 in 2008, and is also one of the municipalities of Qatar...	Cancelled

All-time medal count

1	align=left	|124	70	57	251
2	align=left	|57	66	90	213
3	align=left	|53	51	40	144
4	align=left	|44	36	34	114
5	align=left	|33	27	33	93
6	align=left	|31	35	39	105
7	align=left	|24	24	24	72
8	align=left	|22	21	43	86
9	align=left	|19	18	26	63
10	align=left	|13	18	21	52
11	align=left	|13	11	24	48
12	align=left	|9	4	20	33
13	align=left	|8	8	6	22
14	align=left	|7	13	13	33
15	align=left	|7	4	2	13
16	align=left	|5	0	4	9
17	align=left	|4	8	14	26
18	align=left	|3	13	19	35
19	align=left	|3	6	10	19
20	align=left	|2	15	12	29
21	align=left	|2	5	7	14
22	align=left	|1	6	9	16
23	align=left	|1	4	7	12
24	align=left	|1	3	1	5
25	align=left	|0	5	8	13
26	align=left	|0	3	9	12
27	align=left	|0	3	2	5
28	align=left	|0	2	2	4
29	align=left	|0	2	1	3
29	align=left	|0	2	1	3
31	align=left	|0	2	0	2
32	align=left	|0	1	6	7
33	align=left	|0	1	2	3
34	align=left	|0	1	0	1
35	align=left	|0	0	3	3
36	align=left	|0	0	2	2
36	align=left	|0	0	2	2
38	align=left	|0	0	1	1
Total		486	488	594	1568