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Female Beauty All Around the Globe

As nature slowly awakens from its deep winter slumber, people in various countries are preparing for celebrations - meaning, of course, it is time to praise our women, who always harbor the blossoming of Spring in their hearts.
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International Women's Day is celebrated annually on March 8 - but it is so much more than just a dull date. It is time to remember that women make this world a better place and appreciate the elegance and energy they show in every way possible.
Sputnik brings you a collection of photos glorifying the female beauty of all nations, races and cultures!
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Woman amidst winter daisies at a botanical garden along the Red River in Hanoi, Vietnam.

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Women participate in folk festival in Kamchatka, Russia.

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A fan of the Turkish national team before the beginning of the UEFA Nations League match with Russia.

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A participant of National Costume Day in Tbilisi, Georgia.

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A fan of Portugal's national football team before the match with Spain.

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Women celebrate Ivan Kupala - a Slavic folk holiday that marks the summer solstice - in Bashkortostan, Russia.

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A Syrian Kurdish woman in traditional attire during the yearly ceremony celebrating "Kurdish Clothing Day".

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Young women wearing traditional hanbok dress pose for a photo following a traditional Coming-of-Age Day ceremony to mark adulthood in Seoul, South Korea.

The Coming-of-Age Day marks age 19, at which a person is legally able to make life choices like voting.

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A girl at the Pakhtakor metro station in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

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A young woman dressed up in traditional attire takes part in an audition organized by the Indoni Culture School in the South African city of Durban on the occasion of Africa Month, a month that sees Africans on the continent showcasing the diaspora of cultural activities, film, music and food.

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Girls on the balcony of "Juliet's House" - the house of the Dal Capello family, which became the prototype of the Capulet clan from famous Shakespeare tragedy - in Verona, Italy.

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Girls at the Hamshen holiday. The holiday is held by the Armenian community in Abkhazia and the Hamshen Foundation.

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Andalusian woman in typical Sevillanas dress, Spain.

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Participants in the celebration of Navruz in the Hissar fortress in Tajikistan.

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A performer takes part in a parade celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year of the Rabbit, in central Milan, Italy.

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An Emirati woman performs a traditional dance during the camel festival at the Sweihan racecourse, in Al-Ain on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi.

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Indian bride posing as others show off their decorated hands at a mass wedding in Surat, some 270 km from Ahmedabad.

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Girl at a Maslenitsa (Mardi Gras) celebration in Suzdal, Russia.

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A young woman waits to cross a road in the Shimbashi district in Tokyo, Japan.

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A young girls hawks wares at a cattle market in Kara Isheri in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria, ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.

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Three young women walk in front of a mural on a street in Bangkok, Thailand.

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A young woman takes part in a traditional mid-summer solstice celebration (Rasos Festival) at the Open-Air Museum of Lithuania in Rumsiskes, east of Kaunas.

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Girls in national costumes during Novruz celebrations in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

Novruz is a national holiday that marks the beginning of spring.

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A girl after swimming in the Yenisei river in Russia and taking a snow shower at -35 degrees Celsius.

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