Miss World 2000, the 50th Miss World pageant, was held on November 30
at the Millennium Dome in London, United Kingdom. The pageant's
swimsuit segment was filmed in the Maldives. The pageant was won by Priyanka Chopra, the fifth Indian Miss World and the second consecutive winner from India.
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Miss World 2001, Agbani Darego was the first black African winner and the following year Miss World was staged in her homeland, in Abuja, Nigeria.
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Azra Akin (born December 8, 1981) is a Dutch-Turkish model, who
was crowned Miss World 2002 at the annual pageant held on December 7 at
Alexandra Palace in London, England, representing Turkey.
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Rosanna Diane Davison (born on April 17, 1984 in Dublin,
Ireland), is an Irish socialite and model, and was the winner of the
Miss World 2003 title. She is the daughter of musician Chris De Burgh.
The song For Rosanna was written by her father in her honour for his
1986 album, Into the Light.
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On the December 4 in the Beauty Crown Theatre located in the Chinese beach city of Sanya, María Julia Mantilla was crowned Miss World 2004 by last year's winner, Rosanna. She was the second winner of Miss World from Peru.
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Unnur Birna Vilhjalmsdottir, born on May 25, 1984 in Reykjavík
Iceland, was a former winner of the Miss Iceland pageant. She was
crowned Miss World 2005 on December 10 in the Beauty Crown Theatre
located in the Chinese beach city of Sanya, by the reigning beauty
queen, 2004's Miss Peru Maju Mantilla.
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Tatana Kucharova from the Czech Republic was crowned Miss World
2006 by outgoing titleholder Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir of Iceland.
Miss World 2006, the 56th Miss World pageant, was held at Sala
Kongresowa, the main 2,897-seat auditorium at the Palace of Culture and
Science, Warsaw, Poland on the September 30.
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Zhang Zilin was Miss World 2007 title holder, representing the
People's Republic of China as Miss China World. She was the first Miss
World of East Asian origin. She was crowned Miss World at The Crown of
Beauty Theater in Sanya.
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Miss World 2008, the 58th Miss World pageant, was held at Sandton
Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa on December 13. Ksenia Sukhinova of Russia, won the Miss World 2008 crown.
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2009 Miss Gibraltar Kaiane Aldorino win the Miss World 2009 crown with her impressive performances and subtle intelligence, which potrayed her as a beauty with a brain.
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2010 Miss World 2010, the 60th Miss World pageant was held on October 30, 2010, in Sanya, People's Republic of China, after Vietnam backed out of the hosting contract. Kaiane Aldorino of Gibraltar crowned her successor Alexandria Mills of the United States as Miss World 2010.
