Update: Dec. 19 - 10:00 p.m. EST: Miss Universe 2012 Crowned, click here for the winner.
Beauties from 89 countries will compete for the title of Miss Universe 2012 on Wednesday night in a pageant hosted by NBC and Telemundo from the Planet Hollywood resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
The 61st annual pageant, which will begin at 8 p.m. EST, will be hosted by Bravo's Andy Cohen and E! New's Giuliana Rancic. Eleven celebrity judges will choose the next winner to take over for Miss Universe 2011 Leila Lopes from Angola. Judges will include 'The Voice' judge Cee Lo Green, former 'America's Next Top Model' judge Nigel Barker, 'Keeping Up With The Kardashians' reality star Scott Disick and Mexican Miss Universe 2010 Ximena Navarrete.
The Associated Press reported that the 89 contestants have spent the past two weeks in Las Vegas preparing for the competition. The U.S. will be represented to the newly crowned Miss USA Olivia Culpo, a Boston University student and Rhode Island native.
Last year's winner, Leila Lopes from Angola, is the first winner from her country and the fourth from Africa to win the title, the Miss Universe website stated. According to HuffPost Latino Voces, there have been six Latina winners in the last decade.
The Miss Universe 2012 pageant will include performances by Train and Australian singer Timomatic.
Here are this year's Miss Universe 2012 contestants:
Albania - Adrola Dush
Angola - Marcelina Vahekeni
Argentina - Camila Solórzano Ayusa
Aruba - Liza Helder
Australia - Renae Ayris
Bahamas - Celeste Marshall
Belgium - Laura Beyne
Bolivia - Yéssica Mouton
Botswana - Sheillah Molelekwa
Brazil - Gabriela Markus
British Virgin Islands - Abigail Hyndman
Bulgaria - Zhana Yaneva
Canada - Adwoa Yamoah
Cayman Islands - Lindsay Japal
Chile - Ana Luisa König
China - Diana Xu Jidan
Colombia - Daniella álvarez
Costa Rica - Nazareth Cascante
Croatia - Elizabeta Burg
Curaçao - Monifa Jansen
Cyprus - Ioánna Giannakoú
Czech Republic - Tereza Chlebovská
Denmark - Josefine Hewitt
Dominican Republic - Dulcita Lieggi
Ecuador - Carolina Aguirre
El Salvador - Ana Yancy Clavel
Estonia - Natalie Korneitsik
Ethiopia - Helen Getachew
Finland - Sara Chafak
France - Marie Payet
Gabon - Channa Divouvi
Georgia - Thamtha Shedania
Germany - Alicia Endemann
Ghana - Gifty Ofori
Great Britain - Holly Hale
Greece - Vasiliki Tsirogianni
Guam - Alyssa Cruz Aguero
Guatemala - Laura Godoy
Guyana - Ruqayyah Boyer
Haiti - Jacques Christela
Honduras - Jennifer Andrade
Hungary - Agnes Konkoly
India - Shilpa Singh
Indonesia - Maria Selena Nurcahya
Ireland - Adrienne Murphy
Italy - Grazia Maria Pinto
Israel - Lina Machola
Jamaica - Chantal Zak
Japan - Ayako Hara
Korea - Sung-hye Lee
Kosovo - Diana Avdiu
Lebanon - Rina Chibany
Lithuania - Greta Mikalauskyte
Malaysia - Kimberley Leggett
Mauritius - Ameeksha Dilchand
Mexico - Karina González
Montenegro - Andrea Radonjić
Namibia - Tsakana Nkandi
New Zealand - Talia Bennett
Nicaragua - Farah Eslaqui
Nigeria - Isabella Ayuk
Norway - Sara Nicole Andersen
Panama - Stephanie Vander Werf
Paraguay - Egni Eckert
Peru - Nicole Faverón
Philippines - Janine Tugonon
Poland - Marcelina Zawadzka
Puerto Rico - Bodine Koehler
Russia - Elizaveta Golovanova
Serbia - Branislava Brana Mandic
Singapore - Lynn Tan
Slovak Republic - Ľubica Štepanová
South Africa - Melinda Bam
Spain - Andrea Huisgen
Sri Lanka - Sabrina Herft
St. Lucia - Tara Carla Edward
Sweden - Hanni Beronius
Switzerland - Alina Buchschacher
Tanzania - Winfrida Dominic
Thailand - Nutpimon Farida Waller
Trinidad &
Tobago - Avionne Mark
Turkey - Çağıl Özge Özkul
Ukraine - Anastasia Chernova
Uruguay - Camila Vezzoso
USA - Olivia Culpo
Venezuela - Irene Esser
Vietnam - Lưu Thị Diễm Hương
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