India and other Miss Universe lovelies!

In a countdown to D-Day, we'll be introducing you to all 84 contestants from around the world.

Part I: Meet the Miss Universe 2009 contestants!
Part II: A few more Miss Universe beauties!

Vote for your favourite in the everyday polls and once we've narrowed it down to the top 10 most popular beauties, cast your vote for who you think should win.

Miss India

Name: Ekta Chowdhry

Age: 23

Height: 5'10"

With the whole country rooting for her, we're guessing Ekta really needs no introduction. The raven-haired Delhi beauty, fluent in Hindi and English, is going to do her best to make us proud!

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Age: 26

Height: 5'9"

Exotic Elham is from Egypt's capital Cairo and speaks both Arabic and English.

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Age: 19

Height: 5'7"

Melat's hometown is Addis Ababa and the sultry stunner is fluent in Amharic (a Semitic language native to North Central Ethiopia), Italian and English.

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Age: 19

Height: 5'9"

Lika's surname has our tongues in a twist and her gorgeous appearance has us in knots! She hails from the city of Tbilisi and knows Georgian, English and Russian.

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Age: 19

Height: 5'11"

From Athens, Viviana could give the Greek gods competition with her angelic countenance. She is fluent in five languages -- Greek, Italian, English, German and French.

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Age: 21

Height: 5'11"

This lovely lass is from Budapest, Hungary's largest city and speaks both Hungarian and English.

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Age: 24

Height: 5'10"

She may come from the land of ice, but who would mind cozying up to her? Ingibjorg's hometown is Austurland and she speaks Icelandic, English and Danish.

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Age: 20

Height: 5'10"

Born in Jakarta, Zizi, as she is known, is studying to be an economist. She is fluent in Indonesian and English.

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Age: 20

Height: 5'8"

Irish lass Diana hails from Dublin and speaks only English-- she sure has a devastating smile, doesn't she?

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Age: 20

Height: 5'9"

Alluring Julia is fluent in English and Hebrew and is based in the Israeli city of Haifa.

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Age: 25

Height: 5'9"

A model and professional dancer, brown-eyed Laura has a stunning figure. She was born in Arezzo, Tuscany and speaks only Italian. Think she has what it takes to make it to the final 10 like last year's Italian contestant Claudia Ferraris?

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Age: 25

Height: 5'9"

Cute Carolyn is from Jamaica's second-largest city, Montego Bay and speaks fluent English.

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Age: 25

Height: 5'7"

Pretty Emiri is from Tokyo and knows both Japanese and English well. Think she'll get further than Miss Japan 2008, Hiroko Mima, who made it to the top 15 of last year's pageant?

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Age: 23

Height: 5'6"

This sexy lady from Seoul has striking black hair and eyes. She is fluent in Korean and English.

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