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The SEA Games originated from the SEAP (Southeast Asian Peninsula) Games which were first held in Thailand in 1959. When the first SEAP Games were held in Bangkok in 1959, only six countries participated, namely Laos, Burma (Myanmar), Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam.

Luang Sukhumnaipradit, the then Vice President of the Thai National Olympic Committee, had been trying to begin a SEAP Games since 1957. He believed that a regional sports competition, similar to the Asian Games or the Olympic Games, will help promote cooperation, understanding, and relations among countries in the region. His efforts were rewarded after two years.
The name SEAP Games was used up to 1975. Thailand had by then been the host country three times. Later on Indonesia, the Philippines, and Brunei joined the Games, which were then renamed SEA Games at its 9th athletics meet in Malaysia in 1977. The name has since been officially adopted and the Games have become the most important sporting event of the region. The membership of the SEA Games has now increased to ten with Cambodia being the last member.

26. _________ 1977, SEAP Games was the official name of the sporting event in Southeast Asia.