FACTBOX-Olympics-World leaders to attend opening ceremony

(Adds Armenia, Azerbaijan, Burundi, Ghana, Hungary, Mozambique, and Vanuatu)

Aug 8 (Reuters) - More than 80 state leaders and royals are expected to attend the opening of the Beijing Olympics on Friday.

Attendance is a closely watched issue, with rights groups urging leaders to boycott the Games to protest against China's crackdown on May unrest in Tibet and its ties with the government in Sudan.

Here is a list of world leaders who have said they will attend the opening ceremony:

AFGHANISTAN - President Hamid Karzai

ALBANIA - Prime Minister Sali Berisha

ALGERIA - President Abdelaziz Bouteflika

ANGOLA - President Jose Eduardo dos Santos

ARMENIA - President Serzh Sarkisyan

AUSTRALIA - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd

AZERBAIJAN - President Ilham Aliyev

BELARUS - President Alexander Lukashenko

BRAZIL - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

BRUNEI - Sultan Haji Hassanal

BULGARIA - President Georgi Parvanov

BURUNDI - President Pierre Nkurunziza