During the Parade of Nations section of the 1952 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, athletes from each country participating in the Olympics paraded into the arena. The Parade of Nations was organized according to the Finnish name of the country. Greece led the parade followed by the Netherlands Antilles. Other countries marched by following the Finnish alphabet, except the host country, Finland, which marched last. The athletes from British Guiana and the People's Republic of China were absent from the Parade of Nations, meaning only 67 nations participated in the parade.

Order	Nation	Finnish	Flag bearer	Sport
1	Greece (GRE)	Kreikka	Nikolaos Syllas	Athletics
2	Netherlands Antilles (AHO)	Alank Antillit	Ergilio Hato	Football
3	Argentina (ARG)	Argentina	Delfo Cabrera	Athletics
4	Australia (AUS)	Australia	Mervyn Wood	Rowing
5	Bahamas (BAH)	Bahama	Durward Knowles	Sailing
6	Belgium (BEL)	Belgia	Charles Debeur	Official
7	Bermuda (BER)	Bermuda	Chummy Hayward	Official
8	Brazil (BRA)	Brasilia	Mário Jorge	Basketball
9	Bulgaria (BUL)	Bulgaria	Boris Nikolov	Boxing
10	Burma (BIR)	Burma
11	Ceylon (CEY)	Ceylon
12	Chile (CHI)	Chile	Adriana Millard	Athletics
13	Egypt (EGY)	Egypti	Ahmed Fouad Nessim	Water polo
14	Spain (ESP)	Espanja	Luis Omedes	Rowing
15	South Africa (RSA)	Etelä-Afrikka	Schalk Booysen	Athletics
16	Philippines (PHI)	Filippiinit	Ramon Campos Jr.	Basketball
17	Guatemala (GUA)	Guatemala	Doroteo Flores[1]	Athletics
18	Netherlands (NED)	Hollanti	Simon de Wit	Official
19	Hong Kong (HKG)	Hongkong		Team official[2]
20	Indonesia (INA)	Indonesia	Habib Suharko	Swimming
21	India (IND)	Intia	Balbir Singh Sr.	Field hockey
22	Iran (IRI)	Iran	Mahmoud Namjoo	Weightlifting
23	Ireland (IRL)	Irlanti	Paddy Carroll	Official
24	Iceland (ISL)	Islanti	Friðrik Guðmundsson	Athletics
25	Great Britain (GBR)	Iso-Britannia	Harold Whitlock	Athletics
26	Israel (ISR)	Israel	Abraham Shneior	Basketball
27	Italy (ITA)	Italia	Miranda Cicognani	Gymnastics
28	Austria (AUT)	Itävalta	Willi Welt	Gymnastics
29	Jamaica (JAM)	Jamaika	Arthur Wint	Athletics
30	Japan (JPN)	Japani	Bunkichi Sawada	Athletics
31	Yugoslavia (YUG)	Jugoslavia	Oto Rebula	Athletics
32	Canada (CAN)	Kanada	William Parnell	Athletics
33	Korea (KOR)	Korea	Han Soo-ann	Boxing
34	Gold Coast (GHA)	Kultarannikko
35	Cuba (CUB)	Kuuba	Federico López	Basketball
36	Lebanon (LIB)	Libanon
37	Liechtenstein (LIE)	Liechtenstein
38	Luxembourg (LUX)	Luxemburg	Camille Wagner	Football
39	Mexico (MEX)	Meksiko	Joaquín Capilla	Diving
40	Monaco (MON)	Monaco
41	Soviet Union (URS)	Neuvostoliitto	Yakov Kutsenko	Weightlifting
42	Nigeria (NGR)	Nigeria	Josiah Majekodunmi	Athletics
43	Norway (NOR)	Norja	Martin Stokken	Athletics
44	Pakistan (PAK)	Pakistan	Niaz Khan	Field hockey
45	Panama (PAN)	Panama	Carlos Chávez	Weightlifting
46	Puerto Rico (PUR)	Porto Rico	Jaime Annexy	Athletics
47	Portugal (POR)	Portugali
48	Poland (POL)	Puola	Teodor Kocerka	Rowing
49	France (FRA)	Ranska	Ignace Heinrich	Athletics
50	Romania (ROU)	Romania	Dumitru Paraschivescu	Athletics
51	Sweden (SWE)	Ruotsi	Bo Eriksson	Fencing
52	Saar (SAA)	Saar	Toni Breder	Athletics
53	Germany (GER)	Saksa	Friedel Schirmer	Athletics
54	Singapore (SIN)	Singapore	Thong Saw Pak	Weightlifting
55	Switzerland (SUI)	Sveitsi	Walter Lehmann	Athletics
56	Denmark (DEN)	Tanska	Erik Swane Lund	Fencing
57	Thailand (THA)	Thaimaa
58	Trinidad (TRI)	Trinidad	Rodney Wilkes	Weightlifting
59	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	Tšekkoslovakia	Vít Matlocha	Gymnastics
60	Turkey (TUR)	Turkki	Bayram Şit	Wrestling
61	Hungary (HUN)	Unkari	Imre Németh	Athletics
62	Uruguay (URU)	Uruguay	Estrella Puente	Athletics
63	New Zealand (NZL)	Uusi-Seelanti	Harold Cleghorn	Weightlifting
64	Venezuela (VEN)	Venezuela	Asnoldo Devonish	Athletics
65	Vietnam (VIE)	Vietnam
66	United States of America (USA)	Yhdysvallat	Norman Armitage	Fencing
67	Finland (FIN)	Suomi	Väinö Suvivuo	Athletics

• The official report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 (PDF) (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 24, 2011.
• sports-reference.com