Miss Earth 2008

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Miss Earth 2008, the 8th Miss Earth beauty pageant, will be held in the November 9, 2008 in Manila, Philippines. About 90+ delegates are expected to arrive on October 19, 2008. At the conclusion of the final night of competition, outgoing titleholder Miss Earth 2007 Jessica Nicole Trisko of Canada will crown her successor^[1].

1 Official Contestants
2 Upcoming National Competitions
3 National pageant notes
- 3.1 Returning countries and territories
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Official Contestants

As of June 5, 2008, 38 delegates have been selected.

Country	Contestant	Age	Height (cm)	Hometown
Argentina	Willitza Medrano^[2]	26	168	Tucumán
Bahamas	Garnell Storr^[3]	25	-	Mushca Cay
Belgium	Barbara Vanden Bussche^[4]	18	175	Brussels
Belize	Lorriean Bridget Samuels^[5]	20	-	Belize
Cayman Islands	Patricia Plummer^[6]	19	172	George Town
Congo	Kelly Falco^[7]	18	-	Brazzaville
Costa Rica	Wendy Cordero^[8]	20	175	Cartago
Czech Republic	Hana Svobodova^[9]	19	174	Vysočina
Ecuador	Andrea Carolina León^[10]	20	170	Machala
Egypt	Alexandra Dumit^[11]	23	185	Cairo
Fiji	Sheryl Narayan^[12]	23	168	Suva
Greece	Ria Antoniou^[13]^[14]	20	178	Athens
Guatemala	Heidi Elizabeth García^[15]	25	175	Guatemala City
Honduras	Xica Da Silva Guerrero^[16]	27	160	El Progreso
Hungary	Krisztina Polgár^[17]	21	173	Törökszentmiklós
Iceland	Sonja Björk Jónsdóttir^[18]	18	-	Svarfaðardal
India	Tanvi Vyas^[19]	22	174	Vadodara
Israel	No'a Avrahami^[20]	18	173	Tel Aviv
Lithuania	Malette Jakov	-	-	Vilnius
Luxembourg	Nadia Neves Pereira^[21]	-	-	Luxembourg
Mauritius	Melina Mootoo^[22]	23	177	Port Louis
Netherlands	Melanie de Laat^[23]	21	175	Amsterdam
Nicaragua	Karina Gordon Hodgson^[24]	18	173	Bluefields
Niue	Tangine Downey^[25]	21	172	Alofi
Northern Ireland	Amy Robinson^[26]	22	175	Belfast
Pakistan	Natasha Paracha^[27]	-	-	Islamabad
Panama	Ginelle Saldaña^[28]	24	177	David
Philippines	Karla Paula Henry^[29]	21	174	Cebu City
Slovak Republic	Martina Tóhtová^[30]	20	-	Piešťany
Slovenia	Sara Franceskin^[31]	18	-	Ljubljana
Spain	Adriana Reverón^[32]	22	177	Tenerife
Sri Lanka	Aruni Rajapakse^[33]	24	170	Kandy
Switzerland	Nasanin Nuri^[34]	20	170	Bern
Tahiti	Vaihere Merpaut^[35]	19	173	Mahina
Tanzania	Jamila Nyanga^[36]	-	-	Dar es Salaam
Thailand	Piyaporn Deejing^[37]	19	172	Nakhon Ratchasima
Venezuela	Daniela Torrealba^[38]	19	174	San Cristóbal
Zambia	Esther Sitali Banda^[39]	21	-	Lusaka

[edit] Upcoming National Competitions

National pageants scheduled are:^[40]^[41]

Botswana - June 26, 2008
Dominican Republic - June 17, 2008^[42]
England - August 30, 2008
Ghana - July 5, 2008
Guadeloupe - July 5, 2008
Jamaica - June 22, 2008
Korea - August 6, 2008^[43]
Malta - August 9, 2008^[44]
Poland - October 18, 2008

Scotland - August 30, 2008
South Africa - June 21, 2008
Suriname - August 8, 2008
Tibet - October 12, 2008^[45]
Uganda - August 2, 2008
USA - July 8, 2008
Vietnam - August 31, 2008 ^[46]^[47]
Wales - August 8, 2008

To be announced later:

Albania
Australia
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Cook Islands
Cuba
Denmark
El Salvador
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Hong Kong
Indonesia

Italy
Japan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Lebanon
Macau
Malaysia
Martinique
Mexico
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Puerto Rico
Romania
Singapore
Sweden
Taiwan
Trinidad & Tobago
Turkey
Ukraine

[edit] National pageant notes

[edit] Returning countries and territories

Angola, Bhutan, Cook Islands and Luxembourg will compete in Miss Earth for the first time
Kosovo last competed in 2003.
Mauritius last competed in 2005.
Cayman Islands, Egypt, Honduras and Tahiti last competed in 2006.