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How many spectators could the stadium at Olympia hold?

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Map of southeastern Europe highlighting Greece and marking the location of Olympia with a red star, indicating its status as a World Heritage Site. Olympia is shown in the western part of the Peloponnese peninsula, surrounded by neighboring countries and nearby seas including the Ionian, Aegean, and Mediterranean. — Olympia Olympia was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1989.

The stadium at Olympia could hold approximately 40,000 spectators.1

The facility featured massive sloping earth embankments to accommodate this audience, with the exception of the north side, where the natural slope of the hill was utilized.1