Help me! What breed is my cat?

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She  resembles somewhat a korat, with that slender yet musculous body, hearthshaped head, the eyes although not good green but at least greenish.

there is even some silvery shine in the fur!

But otherwise, the label of Maltese cat is always ok.  With that we understand all blue cats.   :)

The coloring is diluted tortie.
 
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I will reinforce my first opinion.  Looking again, I say she is a decent good look alike of a Korat.

If she werent a diluted tortie, I would say she is a pretty good look alike.
 

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She is very beautiful, but she is no partuclar breed. Like 99% of the cats in the world, she is what we call a Domestic Shorthair, with a dilute blue/cream tortoiseshell coat colour..

People get very confused about cat breeds, thinking they are like dogs - that every one must be a breed or at least a breed cross. But that is not so in felines. This is because dogs have been bred for thousands of years, with specific purpose or appearance in mind, so now there are hundreds of very diiferent looking breeds. People only began to deliberately breed cats for specific traits a couple of hundred years ago. Before that, cats evolved naturally as they spread around the world, developing different characteristics to cope with their environment. So we have long-haired, larger cats who come from northern forests, thinner, light-coloured cats with dark extremities who developed in hot conditions, cats with longer legs who needed to run fast to survive, and even some cats who love water, no one is quite sure why. There were also natural chance mutations that gave us the original tailless and hairless cats. So the ancestors of our Persians, Siamese, Maine Coons, Manx, Russian Blues, and all the rest of the 'breed' cats were originally selected from the wild population and interbred to what we have today. It is the same with colours - the original African wild cats that were the ancestors of all our domestic cats were tabby in style and colour, and this remains the most common colour pattern. The vast majority of our domestic cats today have no connection with any 'breed' but may well share common genes with them. So your cat may show characteristics of a number of 'breed' cats without being one
 
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Thanks a lot for your decent description JennyR :)
 

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thanks for your answers and interests.
StefanZ my guess was korat too, but isnt she mix?
I found some nice information about blue breeds:
http://www.showcatsonline.com/tc-sco/blue-breeds-sco.shtml
Oh yes, sure. Mix, or sooner, domestic with no particular breed.  This is why Im hammering in this "look alike".

I wanted just to admit, she is quite a much a look alike, even if she is a diluted tortie, and not blue for real.
 
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