Where is Expo 2025? When exactly will it take place? What will it be like?
If the news that there are only three days left of Expo 2020 Dubai has got you down, then questions like these are likely to be ringing around your head.
Here’s what we know about Expo 2025 so far…
Expo 2025 will be held between April 13 and October 13 2025 in the Osaka-Kansai region of Japan. The theme will be Designing Future Societies for Our Lives.
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According to Expo 2020 Dubai, Japan has taken “key lessons from their success and its own participation in the event as it looks ahead to its hosting of the next World Expo.”
Osaka-Kansai won the bid to host Expo 2025 in a vote held back in November 2018 at the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) in Paris.
The Expo 2025 will be the third time for Japan to host a World Expo, having previously hosted the event in 1970 and 1990.
When discussing their contribution to the current event, Aiko Yabunaka, secretary-general of the Japan Pavilion, confirmed that the pavilion would be dismantled, but the façade will be used in Expo 2025.
Yabunaka said: “Our objective was to showcase our culture, history and innovations to the world, and take back ideas with us to study for the next few years to host Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai.
“We have forged friendships, met multinational talents, understood each other – these experiences will endure for better collaborations. We have many global challenges, and by working together, we can make a better world.”
Officials from Osaka Kansai will visit Expo 2020 Dubai in a few days for an official handover of the Expo flag.
Eighty countries have confirmed their participation in Expo 2025 as of March 2022.
What about Expo 2030?
The location of Expo 2030 has yet to be confirmed, but we could see it return to the Middle East. In fact, Expo could be coming to Riyadh. In October 2021, Saudi Arabia announced Riyadh’s bid for hosting the World Expo 2030 under the theme “The era of change: Leading the planet to a foresighted tomorrow”. And in March 2022, the Kingdom launched a global campaign as part of the expo bid.
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