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Last week, we introduced you to 28 beauties participating in the Miss Universe pageant on August 23. Today, we bring you some more.
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!
Move on to the next slide and register your votes on the last page of the slideshow.
Name: Elham Wagdi
Age: 26
Height: 5'9"
Exotic Elham is from Egypt's capital Cairo and speaks both Arabic and English.
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Name: Melat Yante
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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Name: Lika Orjonikidze
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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Name: Viviana Campanile Zagorianakou
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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Name: Suzan Budai
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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Name: Ingibjorg Egilsdottir
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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Name: Zivanna Letisha Siregar
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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Name: Diana Donnelly
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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Name: Julia Dyment
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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Name: Laura Valenti
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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Name: Carolyn Yapp
Age: 25
Height: 5'9"
Cute Carolyn is from Jamaica's second-largest city, Montego Bay and speaks fluent English.
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Name: Emiri Miyasaka
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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Name: Na Ri
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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