The Asian Physics Olympiad is the main competition in physics for Asian countries and is similar to that after the International Physics Olympiad (International Physics Olympiad), and requires a similar level of intellectual ability from the participants.

And there is a difference between the Asian and International Physics Olympiad and Olympiad is that each country can be represented by a maximum of 8 students while the International Olympiad maximum is 5 students so that the age of the twenty contestants on June 30 in the same year of the competition does not exceed.

Its first edition was launched in the year 1999 AD in Indonesia with the participation of 12 countries, and it is held at the beginning of May every year

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