The 27 countries competing in the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 on Saturday 23 May are now known.

Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Slovenia and Sweden all qualified from the second Semi-Final held in Vienna, Austria on Thursday 21 May.

Armenia, Albania, Belgium, Estonia, Georgia ,Greece, Hungary, Romania, Russia and Serbia were all voted through from the first Semi-Final of the competition on Tuesday 19 May.

The results of each Semi-Final were decided by combining the votes of national juries in each participating nation with telephone votes from viewers.

The 20 Semi-Final qualifiers join France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom as well as hosts Austria who all have an automatic place in the Grand Final.

Australia is the 27^th competing country, participating for the first time by special invitation to mark the Contest’s 60^th anniversary.

Over 1,600 journalists are in the host city of Vienna covering the world’s biggest non-sporting live television event.

For the first time this year deaf and hard of hearing viewers can follow the Song Contest with International Sign.

The Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 will be broadcast in all 40 participating nations by EBU Members ORF (Austria), PTV (Armenia), RTSH (Albania), ICTIMAI (Azerbaijan), BTRC (Belarus), VRT (Belgium), RTBF (Belgium), CyBC (Cyprus), ČT (Czech Republic), DR (Denmark), ERR (Estonia), YLE (Finland), GPB (Georgia), ARD (Germany), ERT (Greece), MTV (Hungary), RÚV (Iceland), RTÉ (Ireland), IBA (Israel), RAI (Italy), LTV (Latvia), LRT (Lithuania), RTCG (Montenegro), MRT (FYROM), PBS (Malta), TRM (Moldova), RTCG (Montenegro), AVROTROS (The Netherlands), NRK (Norway), TVP (Poland), RTP (Portugal), TVR (Romania), Channel 1 (Russia), SMRTV (San Marino), RTS (Serbia), RTVSLO (Slovenia), RTVE (Spain), SVT (Sweden), SRG SSR (Switzerland), BBC (United Kingdom) and Associate Member SBS (Australia).

The 3.5 hour Grand Final will also be broadcast live in China, New Zealand, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Kosovo and will be aired later in Canada.