Miss Universe 2010
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Miss Universe 2010, the 59th edition of the pageant, was held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center
Mandalay Bay Events Center
Mandalay Bay Events Center is a 12,000 seat indoor arena, at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, on the Las Vegas Strip, in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned by MGM Resorts International.It has hosted many music, boxing and mixed martial arts events....

 in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino is a 44-story luxury hotel casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned by MGM Resorts International. Five floors of the main hotel building are occupied by the five-star and AAA Five-Diamond Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas...

, Las Vegas
Las Vegas metropolitan area
The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...

, Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...

, U.S. on August 23, 2010. It was hosted by Bret Michaels
Bret Michaels
Bret Michaels is an American musician, actor, director, screenwriter, producer and reality television personality. He first gained fame as the lead vocalist of the glam metal band Poison. Besides his career as lead singer, he has several solo albums to his credit, as well as one chart single...

 and Natalie Morales
Natalie Morales
Natalie Leticia Morales is the news anchor for NBC's Today.-Career:Morales was an anchor and correspondent for MSNBC from 2002 to 2006...

. Ximena Navarrete
Ximena Navarrete
Jimena "Ximena" Navarrete Rosete is a Mexican model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe 2010. She was previously named as Nuestra Belleza México 2009.-Personal life:...

, Miss Mexico
Nuestra Belleza Mexico
Nuestra Belleza México is a Mexican national beauty pageant held annually since 1994. It is currently responsible for selecting the country's delegates to three of the most relevant international beauty contests, Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss International.In association with Televisa, the...

, was crowned Miss Universe 2010 by outgoing titleholder Stefania Fernandez
Stefanía Fernández
Stefanía Fernández Krupij is a Venezuelan beauty pageant titleholder who won the Miss Venezuela 2008 and Miss Universe 2009 titles. She earned a Guinness record by being the first Miss Universe winner who was crowned by a compatriot....

 from Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

.

Placements

Final results Contestant
Miss Universe 2010
  •  – Ximena Navarrete
    Ximena Navarrete
    Jimena "Ximena" Navarrete Rosete is a Mexican model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe 2010. She was previously named as Nuestra Belleza México 2009.-Personal life:...

1st runner-up
  •  – Yendi Phillips
    Yendi Phillips
    Yendi Phillipps is the winner of the Miss Jamaica World 2007 beauty pageant, as well as the 2010 Miss Jamaica Universe pageant. She is of Indo-Caribbean decent. She credits her mother, who died when she was younger for her Confidence and Drive and dedicated her win to her...

  • 2nd runner-up
  •  – Jesinta Campbell
  • 3rd runner-up
  •  – Anna Poslavska
  • 4th runner-up
  •  – Venus Raj
  • Top 10
  •  – Angela Martini
    Angela Martini
    Angela Martini is an Albanian model. She won Miss Universe Albania in 2010.-Personal life and career:...

  •  – Rozanna Purcell
    Rozanna Purcell
    Rozanna Purcell is an Irish model and Miss Universe Ireland 2010.Purcell competed in the swimsuit segment and placed 4th with an average score of 8.784...

  •  – Nicole Flint
    Nicole Flint
    Nicole Flint is a South African model and public relations professional from Pretoria who was crowned Miss South Africa 2009.-Miss Universe 2010:...

  •  – Jessica Scheel
    Jessica Scheel
    Jessica María Scheel Noyola is a beauty queen who has competed at the Miss Guatemala, Miss Earth 2007 and Miss Universe pageant.-Pageantry:...

  •  – Mariana Vicente
    Mariana Vicente
    Mariana Paola Vicente Morales is a Puerto Rican model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2010 and placed in the Top 10 at the 2010 Miss Universe pageant.-Biography:...

  • Top 15
  •  – Irina Antonenko
    Irina Antonenko
    Irina Igorevna Antonenko is a Russian actress, model and beauty queen who helds the title of Miss Russia 2010. She also placed in the Top 15 at the Miss Universe 2010 pageant held on August 23, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada.- Biography :...

  •  – Natalia Navarro
    Natalia Navarro
    Natalia Navarro Galvis is a Colombian beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Señorita Colombia 2009 and placed in the Top 15 at Miss Universe 2010.-Early life:...

  •  – Malika Ménard
    Malika Ménard
    Malika Ménard is a French beauty pageant titleholder, who won the title of Miss France 2010 and represented her country in Miss Universe 2010.-Miss France:...

  •  – Cilou Annys
    Cilou Annys
    Cilou Annys is a Belgian beauty pageant contestant from Bruges who won Miss Belgium 2010 on 10 January 2010. She is also Miss West Flanders...

  •  – Jitka Válková
    Jitka Válková
    Jitka Válková is a Czech beauty pageant contestant from Třebíč who won Česká Miss 2010 on March 20, 2010.-Early life:She is student of Catholic Grammar School, TřebíčJitka...


  • Final competition scores

    Delegate Swimsuit Evening Gown
    9.265 (2) 8.913 (1)
    9.426 (1) 8.884 (2)
    8.543 (5) 8.841 (3)
    8.333 (7) 8.743 (4)
    8.957 (3) 8.714 (5)
    8.229 (8) 8.693 (6)
    8.784 (4) 8.548 (7)
    8.229 (8) 8.420 (8)
    | 8.071 (10) 8.286 (9)
    8.443 (6) 7.971 (10)
    7.843 (11)
    7.643 (12)
    7.586 (13)
    7.571 (14)
    7.429 (15)

    Winner
    First Runner-up
    Second Runner-up
    Third Runner-up
    Fourth Runner-up
    Top 10 Finalist
    Top 15 Semifinalist Rank in each round of competition

    Special awards

    Award Contestant
    Miss Congeniality
    Miss Photogenic
  •  – Fonthip Watcharatrakul
    Fonthip Watcharatrakul
    Fonthip Watcharatrakul , nicknamed Pook Look is a beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Thailand Universe 2010 and represented Thailand in Miss Universe 2010.-Biography:...

  • Best National Costume
  •  – Fonthip Watcharatrakul
    Fonthip Watcharatrakul
    Fonthip Watcharatrakul , nicknamed Pook Look is a beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Thailand Universe 2010 and represented Thailand in Miss Universe 2010.-Biography:...


  • Background music

    • Opening Number: "Commander
      Commander (song)
      "Commander" is a song performed by American recording artist Kelly Rowland from her third studio album, Here I Am . It serves as the project's international lead single and her debut release with Universal Motown...

      " by Kelly Rowland
      Kelly Rowland
      Kelendria Trene "Kelly" Rowland is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and television personality. She rose to fame as one of the founding members of the American girl group Destiny's Child...

       featuring David Guetta
      David Guetta
      Pierre David Guetta , known professionally as David Guetta , is a French house music producer and DJ. Originally a DJ at nightclubs during the 1980s and 1990s, he co-founded Gum Productions and released his first album, Just a Little More Love, in 2002. Later, he released Guetta Blaster and Pop Life...

    • Swimsuit Competition: "Burning Love
      Burning Love
      "Burning Love" is a song written by Dennis Linde, first recorded by Arthur Alexander, who included it on his self-titled 1971 album, and made famous by Elvis Presley, who took it to #2 in the United States in 1972...

      " and "Viva Las Vegas
      Viva Las Vegas (song)
      "Viva Las Vegas" is a 1964 song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman and recorded by Elvis Presley for his Viva Las Vegas film vehicle of that year...

      " Medley from "Viva Elvis" by Cirque du Soleil
      Cirque du Soleil
      Cirque du Soleil , is a Canadian entertainment company, self-described as a "dramatic mix of circus arts and street entertainment." Based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul in 1984 by two former street performers, Guy...

       (Live Performance)
    • Evening Gown Competition: "Save Room
      Save Room
      "Save Room" is the first single from John Legend's second album, Once Again. It is a joyful, cool love song that samples Gábor Szabó's version of the Classics IV hit "Stormy". As John recalls, "Kanye West brought the sample. I didn't even know the original. I just knew it was a nice organ sound and...

      ", "I Love Every Little Thing About You
      Music of My Mind
      - Side One :# "Love Having You Around" – 7:21#* Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocal, Fender Rhodes, talk box, drums, Moog bass#* Art Baron – trombone#* Background Singers – uncredited...

      " and "Shine
      Wake Up! (John Legend and The Roots album)
      Wake Up! is a collaborative studio album by American R&B recording artist John Legend and hip hop band The Roots, released September 21, 2010, on GOOD Music via Columbia Records. It was produced by Legend with band members Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and James Poyser, and features guest appearances...

      " by John Legend
      John Legend
      John Roger Stephens , better known by his stage name John Legend, is an American singer, musician, and actor. He is the recipient of nine Grammy Awards, and in 2007, he received the special Starlight award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.Prior to the release of his debut album, Stephens' career...

       and The Roots
      The Roots
      The Roots is an American hip hop/neo soul band formed in 1987 by Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are famed for beginning with a jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop which still includes live instrumentals...

       (Live Performance)
    • Crowning Moment: "Go That Far
      Go That Far (Bret Michaels song)
      "Go That Far" is the title of a song written by Bret Michaels, and was recorded by Michaels as the first single for his compilation album, Rock My World. "Go That Far" is the theme song for VH1's highest rated reality series "Rock of Love with Bret Michaels"and the album "Rock My World" is the...

      " by Bret Michaels

    Telecast judges

    The following celebrities judged the final competition:
    • Niki Taylor
      Niki Taylor
      Nicole Renee "Niki" Taylor is an American model.-Early life:Taylor was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Ken and Barbara Taylor, a highway patrol lieutenant and a photographer, respectively. She was raised in Pembroke Pines, Florida, and attended Cooper City High School...

       – Model
    • William Baldwin
      William Baldwin
      William Joseph "Billy" Baldwin is an American actor, producer, and writer, known for his starring roles in such films as Flatliners , Backdraft , Sliver , Fair Game , Virus , Double Bang , as Johnny 13 in Danny Phantom , Art Heist , The Squid and the Whale , as himself...

       – Actor, producer, and writer
    • Chynna Phillips
      Chynna Phillips
      Chynna Phillips is an American singer and actress, known for being a member of Wilson Phillips. She is also known for being the daughter of The Mamas & the Papas band members John and Michelle Phillips and the half-sister of Mackenzie Phillips, Bijou Phillips, Jeffrey Phillips , Tamerlane...

       – Singer and actress
    • Evan Lysacek
      Evan Lysacek
      Evan Frank Lysacek is an American figure skater. He is the 2010 Olympic champion, the 2009 World champion, the 2005 & 2007 Four Continents champion, the 2007 & 2008 U.S. national champion, and the 2009/2010 Grand Prix Final champion....

       – Olympic Gold Medal Figure Skater and Dancing with the Stars
      Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 10)
      Dancing with the Stars returned for a tenth season on March 22, 2010. There was not an elimination the first week of competition. The first elimination took place on March 30....

      finalist
    • Tamron Hall
      Tamron Hall
      Tamron Hall is a day-side anchor for MSNBC and host of the program NewsNation with Tamron Hall.-Early career:...

       – MSNBC
      MSNBC
      MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...

       anchor
    • Chazz Palminteri
      Chazz Palminteri
      Calogero Lorenzo "Chazz" Palminteri is an American actor and writer, best known for his performances in The Usual Suspects, A Bronx Tale, and his Academy Award nominated role for Best Supporting Actor in Bullets Over Broadway....

       – Actor and writer
    • Jane Seymour
      Jane Seymour (actress)
      Jane Seymour, OBE is an English actress best known for her performances in the James Bond film Live and Let Die , East of Eden , Onassis: The Richest Man in the World , and the American television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman...

       – Actress and Dancing with the Stars
      Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 5)
      The fifth season of Dancing with the Stars premiered on September 24, 2007 with a special three-night premiere week. The season ended on November 27, 2007. As with previous seasons, CTV Television Network had aired the series in Canada....

      participant
    • Criss Angel
      Criss Angel
      Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos , better known by the stage name Criss Angel, is an American illusionist, writer, director, musician, and actor...

       – Illusionist and musician
    • Sheila E.
      Sheila E.
      Sheila Escovedo , known by her stage name Sheila E., is an American drummer and percussionist, perhaps best known for her work with Prince, George Duke and Ringo Starr.-Early life and Prince period:...

       – Musician

    Preliminary judges

    These were the judges for the preliminary competition:
    • Basim Shami – President of Farouk Systems
    • BJ Coleman – Publicist, Journalist & Television Personality
    • Carlos Bremer – CEO and General Director of Value Grupo Financiero
    • Corinne Nicolas – President of Trump Model Management
    • Louis Burgdorf – Talent Producer for MSNBC's Joe Scarborough & Mika Brzezinski
    • Natalie Rotman – Commentator
    • Sadoux Kim – Television producer

    Historical significance

    • Mexico won Miss Universe for the second time in history, its first title since Lupita Jones
      Lupita Jones
      María Guadalupe "Lupita" Jones Garay became the first Mexican woman to win the title of Miss Universe in 1991.-Miss Universe 1991:...

       in 1991
      Miss Universe 1991
      Miss Universe 1991 was held at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts on the Las Vegas Strip, USA on May 17, 1991.Lupita Jones of Mexico was crowned as Miss Universe 1991...

      . Coincidentally, Jones also won in Las Vegas
      Las Vegas, Nevada
      Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...

      .
    • Countries that placed in the top 15 the previous year were Albania, Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Puerto Rico, and South Africa.
    • Jamaica, Ukraine, Albania, and Guatemala placed their highest ever in the pageant.
    • Czech Republic placed for the fourth consecutive time.
    • Australia scored its third straight placement and its highest since Jennifer Hawkins
      Jennifer Hawkins
      Jennifer Hawkins is an Australian beauty queen, model and television presenter best known as Miss Universe 2004 and the face of Australian department store Myer.-Early life:...

      's victory in 2004
      Miss Universe 2004
      Miss Universe 2004, the 53rd Miss Universe pageant, was held in Centro de Convenciones CEMEXPO, Quito, Ecuador on June 1, 2004. It was won by Jennifer Hawkins of Australia....

      .
    • Guatemala last placed in 1984
      Miss Universe 1984
      Miss Universe 1984, the 33rd Miss Universe pageant, was held at James L. Knight Convention Center in Miami, Florida, USA on July 9, 1984. 81 contestants competed for the crown....

      , the last being Julieta Urrutia who placed in the Top 10 (9th overall).
    • Ireland last placed in 1998
      Miss Universe 1998
      Miss Universe 1998, the 47th Miss Universe pageant was held at Stan Sheriff Arena, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA on May 12, 1998. Brook Lee, Miss Universe 1997, of the USA crowned Wendy Fitzwilliam of Trinidad and Tobago as Miss Universe 1998...

      , the last being Andrea Roche who placed in the Top 10 (9th overall).
    • Philippines last placed in 1999
      Miss Universe 1999
      Miss Universe 1999 was held at the Chaguaramas Convention Centre, Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago on May 26, 1999. Mpule Kwelagobe of Botswana was crowned as Miss Universe 1999 by Miss Universe 1998 Wendy Fitzwilliam of Trinidad and Tobago. A record number of 84 contestants competed in the pageant...

      , the last being Miriam Quiambao
      Miriam Quiambao
      Miriam Redito Quiambao is a television personality, TV/Film Actress and a former beauty queen from the Philippines.Born in Quezon City to Magdalena Redito of Oas, Albay and Medgardo Quiambao of Bacacay, Albay on May 20, 1975, she is the first of two children...

       who was declared first runner-up.
    • Jamaica last placed in 2004
      Miss Universe 2004
      Miss Universe 2004, the 53rd Miss Universe pageant, was held in Centro de Convenciones CEMEXPO, Quito, Ecuador on June 1, 2004. It was won by Jennifer Hawkins of Australia....

      , the last being Christine Straw who placed in the Top 10 (8th overall).
    • Ukraine last placed in 2007
      Miss Universe 2007
      Miss Universe 2007, the 56th Miss Universe pageant, took place on May 28, 2007 at the National Auditorium in Mexico City, Mexico. 77 delegates competed for the title. Riyo Mori of Japan was crowned the winner of the title by Zuleyka Rivera of Puerto Rico....

      , the last being Lyudmyla Bikmullina who placed in the Top 15 (15th overall).
    • Colombia, Mexico, and Russia last placed in 2008
      Miss Universe 2008
      Miss Universe 2008, the 57th Miss Universe pageant, was held at the Crown Convention Center in the Diamond Bay Resort, Nha Trang, Vietnam on July 14, 2008...

      . Taliana Vargas
      Taliana Vargas
      Taliana María Vargas Carrillo is a Colombian actress, fashion model, television personality, Miss Colombia 2007 and Miss Universe 2008 first runner-up. Vargas is a Colombian student of Journalism at the Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Virginia.Vargas is of Greek descent...

       (first runner-up), Elisa Najera
      Elisa Nájera
      Elisa Nájera Gualito was crowned Nuestra Belleza Mexico on October 5, 2007 in Manzanillo, Colima.-Biography:...

       (fourth runner-up), and Vera Krasova
      Vera Krasova
      Vera Krasova was born 1987 in Moscow, Russia is a Russian model and a beauty queen. She competed in the 2007 Miss Russia pageant on December 14 where she represented the capital of Russia, Moscow. Vera made it to the top-3 contestants and placed as the 2nd runner-up to the eventual winner Ksenia...

       (third runner-up) were the last placers for these countries respectively.
    • USA failed to place in the semifinals for first time since 2002
      Miss Universe 2002
      Miss Universe 2002, the 51st edition of the Miss Universe pageant, was held in Coliseo Roberto Clemente, San Juan, Puerto Rico on May 29, 2002. There were 75 delegates from around the world who competed for the title Miss Universe 2002. Oxana Fedorova of Russia was crowned Miss Universe 2002 by...

       and only the fourth time in pageant history. The last Miss USA who failed to place was Shauntay Hinton of the District of Columbia.
    • Venezuela did not make the cut for the first time since 2006
      Miss Universe 2006
      Miss Universe 2006, the 55th Miss Universe pageant, took place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, USA. Unlike past events, it was broadcast live on NBC on a Sunday, July 23, 2006, almost two months later than usual....

       and for the 23rd time since it began competing. The last Miss Venezuela who failed to place was Jictzad Viña.
    • Venezuela and USA both did not make it for the first time together in the history of Miss Universe.
    • Thailand won both the Miss Photogenic and Best National Costume awards. This is the second time in Miss Universe history that a country accomplished this feat, after Kim Carlton of England in 1962
      Miss Universe 1962
      Miss Universe 1962, the 11th Miss Universe pageant, was won by 24-year-old Norma Nolan of Argentina. It took place on 14 July 1962 at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.-Placements:-Special awards:...

      . However, Thailand became the first country to win both awards via online voting.
    • Europe
      Europe
      Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

      an delegates dominated the semifinals for the third consecutive time with 7 semi-finalists. And like in previous years, one of them made the top 5.

    Contestants

    Country/Territory Contestant Age Height
    Hometown
    Angela Martini
    Angela Martini
    Angela Martini is an Albanian model. She won Miss Universe Albania in 2010.-Personal life and career:...

     
    24 Shkoder
    Shkodër
    Shkodër , is a city located on Lake of Shkoder in northwestern Albania in the District of Shkodër, of which it is the capital. It is one of the oldest and most historic towns in Albania, as well as an important cultural and economic centre. Shkodër's estimated population is 90,000; if the...

    Jurema Ferraz
    Jurema Ferraz
    Jurema Ferraz is an Angolan beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Angola 2010 and represented her country in the 2010 Miss Universe pageant.-Miss Angola:...

     
    25 Namibe
    Namibe
    Namibe is the capital city of Namibe Province in Angola. It is a coastal desert city located in southwestern Angola and was founded in 1840 by the Portuguese rulers of the territory. The city's current population is 132,900...

    Yésica Di Vincenzo
    Yésica Di Vincenzo
    -External links:*...

     
    22 Mar del Plata
    Mar del Plata
    Mar del Plata is an Argentine city located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, south of Buenos Aires. Mar del Plata is the second largest city of Buenos Aires Province. The name "Mar del Plata" had apparently the sense of "sea of the Río de la Plata region" or "adjoining sea to the Río de la Plata"...

    Priscilla Lee 22 Oranjestad
    Oranjestad, Aruba
    Oranjestad is the capital and largest city of Aruba, which is in the Caribbean north of Venezuela. Oranjestad is located on the southern coast near the western end of the island country...

    Jesinta Campbell  19 Gold Coast
    Gold Coast, Queensland
    Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...

    Braneka Bassett 20 Freeport
    Freeport, Bahamas
    Freeport is a city, district and free trade zone located on the island of Grand Bahama of the North-west Bahamas. In 1955, Wallace Groves, a Virginian financier with lumber interests in Grand Bahama, was granted 50,000 acres Freeport is a city, district and free trade zone located on the island of...

    Cilou Annys
    Cilou Annys
    Cilou Annys is a Belgian beauty pageant contestant from Bruges who won Miss Belgium 2010 on 10 January 2010. She is also Miss West Flanders...

     
    19 Bruges
    Bruges
    Bruges is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country....

    Claudia Arce Lemaitre 19 Sucre
    Sucre
    Sucre, also known historically as Charcas, La Plata and Chuquisaca is the constitutional capital of Bolivia and the capital of the department of Chuquisaca. Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an elevation of 2750m...

    Tirelo Ramasedi 21 Gaborone
    Gaborone
    ' is the capital and largest city of Botswana with a population of 191,776 based on a 2006 survey, about 10% of the total population of Botswana....

    Débora Lyra
    Débora Lyra
    Débora Lyra , is a Brazilian beauty queen who won the Miss Brazil 2010.-Biography:Lyra was born in Vitória, but spent two years living in the mining town of Divinópolis. She was a model since age 8, and wanted to be Miss Brazil since age 12. With the encouragement of her father, she soon began to...

     
    20 Divinópolis
    Divinópolis
    Divinópolis is a city and municipality located in the centre-west of Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The estimated population in 2007 was 201,921 inhabitants. The total area of the municipality is 709 km² and the elevation is 712 metres. It is located at 120 km from state capital Belo Horizonte...

    Josefina Nunez 22 Road Town
    Road Town
    -See also:* Government House, the official residence of the Governor of the British Virgin Islands located in Road Town-External links:*****...

    Elena Semikina
    Elena Semikina
    Elena Semikina is a Canadian beauty pageant contestant. She was crowned Miss Universe Canada 2010 in Toronto, Ontario, on June 14, 2010. She previously placed in the top 10 in 2008...

     
    26 Toronto
    Toronto
    Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

    Tang Wen 18 Yichun
    Yichun, Heilongjiang
    Yichun is a prefecture-level city on the Songhua river north of Tieli in Heilongjiang province in northeast China. The city is separated from Russia by the Heilongjiang River and sharing a boundary of 246 kilometers with the country. At the 2010 cencus, Yichun has a total population of 1,148,126...

    Natalia Navarro
    Natalia Navarro
    Natalia Navarro Galvis is a Colombian beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Señorita Colombia 2009 and placed in the Top 15 at Miss Universe 2010.-Early life:...

     
    23 Barranquilla
    Barranquilla
    Barranquilla is an industrial port city and municipality located in northern Colombia, near the Caribbean Sea. The capital of the Atlántico Department, it is the largest industrial city and port in the Colombian Caribbean region with a population of 1,148,506 as of 2005, which makes it Colombia's...

    Marva Wright 25 San José
    San José, Costa Rica
    San José is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica. Located in the Central Valley, San José is the seat of national government, the focal point of political and economic activity, and the major transportation hub of this Central American nation.Founded in 1738 by order of Cabildo de León, San...

    Lana Obad  22 Zagreb
    Zagreb
    Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

    Safira de Wit
    Safira de Wit
    -External links:*...

     
    20 Willemstad
    Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles
    Willemstad is the capital city of Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea that forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Formerly the capital of the Netherlands Antilles prior to its dissolution in 2010, it has an estimated population of 140,000. The historic centre of...

    Demetra Olymbiou 22 Aradhippou
    Jitka Válková
    Jitka Válková
    Jitka Válková is a Czech beauty pageant contestant from Třebíč who won Česká Miss 2010 on March 20, 2010.-Early life:She is student of Catholic Grammar School, TřebíčJitka...

     
    18 Třebíč
    Trebíc
    Třebíč is a city in the Moravian part of the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic.Třebíč is situated 35 km southeast of Jihlava and 65 km west of Brno on the Jihlava River. Třebíč is from 392 to 503 metres above sea-level....

    Ena Sandra Causevic
    Ena Sandra Causevic
    Ena Sandra Causevic is a Danish model from Sønderborg, Denmark. She was appointed to represent Denmark in Las Vegas at the Miss Universe 2010 pageant. Besides all her work as a model she is currently studying communications and participates actively in charities for families with cancer affected...

     
    20 Sønderborg
    Sønderborg
    Sønderborg Municipality , is a municipality in Region of Southern Denmark partially on the Jutland peninsula and partially on the island of Als in south Denmark, at the border with Germany. The municipality covers an area of , and has a total population of 76,236...

    Eva Arias
    Eva Arias
    -External links:*...

     
    25 Moca
    Moca, Dominican Republic
    Moca is the capital of Espaillat province in the Dominican Republic.Moca is located 11 miles/18 kilometers away from the country’s second biggest city, Santiago De Los Caballeros. Moca is also known for its many great crops and friendly people....

    Lady Mina
    Lady Mina
    Lady Fernanda Mina Lastra is a beauty pageant titleholder who won the Miss Ecuador 2010.- Miss Ecuador 2010 :...

     
    24 Guayaquil
    Guayaquil
    Guayaquil , officially Santiago de Guayaquil , is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador,with about 2.3 million inhabitants in the city and nearly 3.1 million in the metropolitan area, as well as that nation's main port...

    Donia Hamed 22 Cairo
    Cairo
    Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

    Sonia Cruz
    Sonia Cruz
    Sonia Yesenia Cruz Ayala is a Salvadoran beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Nuestra Belleza El Salvador 2010 and represented her country in the 2010 Miss Universe pageant.-Early life:...

     
    20 San Salvador
    San Salvador
    The city of San Salvador the capital and largest city of El Salvador, which has been designated a Gamma World City. Its complete name is La Ciudad de Gran San Salvador...

    Viivi Pumpanen
    Viivi Pumpanen
    Viivi Pumpanen is a Finnish beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Suomi 2010, the official representative of Finland to the 2010 Miss Universe pageant.-Early life:Born in Vantaa, Pumpanen was Miss Helsinki in 2009...

     
    22 Vantaa
    Vantaa
    Vantaa is a city and municipality in Finland. Helsinki, Vantaa, Espoo and Kauniainen make up the Helsinki Metropolitan Area.Vantaa, with its population of , is the fourth most populated city of Finland. The biggest airport in Finland, the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, is located there...

    Malika Ménard
    Malika Ménard
    Malika Ménard is a French beauty pageant titleholder, who won the title of Miss France 2010 and represented her country in Miss Universe 2010.-Miss France:...

     
    23 Caen
    Caen
    Caen is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the Calvados department and the capital of the Basse-Normandie region. It is located inland from the English Channel....

    Nana Gogichaishvili
    Nanuka Gogichaishvili
    -External links:*...

     
    21 Tbilisi
    Tbilisi
    Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form T'pilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...

    Kristiana Rohder 26 Munich
    Munich
    Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

    Awurama Simpson 22 Sekondi-Takoradi
    Sekondi-Takoradi
    Sekondi-Takoradi, population 335,000 , comprising the twin cities of Sekondi and Takoradi, is the capital of the Western Region of Ghana. It is Ghana's fourth largest city and an industrial and commercial center. The chief industries are timber, plywood, shipbuilding and railroad repair and...

     United Kingdom Tara Hoyos-Martinez 20 London
    London
    London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

    Anna Prelevic 20 Athens
    Athens
    Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

    Vanessa Torres 25 Dededo
    Dededo, Guam
    Dededo is the most populated village of the United States territory of Guam. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Dededo's population was just under 45,000 in 2010. The village is located on the coral plateau of Northern Guam.- Etymology :...

    Jessica Scheel
    Jessica Scheel
    Jessica María Scheel Noyola is a beauty queen who has competed at the Miss Guatemala, Miss Earth 2007 and Miss Universe pageant.-Pageantry:...

     
    20 Retalhuleu
    Retalhuleu
    The city of Retalhuleu is in south-western Guatemala. It is the departmental seat of Retalhuleu department as well as the municipal seat of Retalhuleu municipality....

    Tamika Henry 22 Georgetown
    Georgetown, Guyana
    Georgetown, estimated population 239,227 , is the capital and largest city of Guyana, located in the Demerara-Mahaica region. It is situated on the Atlantic Ocean coast at the mouth of the Demerara River and it was nicknamed 'Garden City of the Caribbean.' Georgetown is located at . The city serves...

    Sarodj Bertin
    Sarodj Bertin
    Sarodj Bertin, is best known as a beauty pageant contestant from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.-Personal life:Bertin was born in Haiti, the daughter of Mireille Durocher Bertin, a Haitian lawyer. She worked for the International Alliance for Haiti's Recovery and is currently a law student living in the...

     
    24 Port-au-Prince
    Port-au-Prince
    Port-au-Prince is the capital and largest city of the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The city's population was 704,776 as of the 2003 census, and was officially estimated to have reached 897,859 in 2009....

    Kenia Martinez 26 Tela
    Tela
    Tela is a town in Honduras on the northern Caribbean coast. It is located in the department of Atlantida.-History:Tela was founded by the Spanish conquistador Cristóbal de Olid on 3 May 1524 near an indigenous town named Tehuacán, ruled by a cacique named Cucumba which had a very good source of...

    Tímea Babinyecz 19 Szeged
    Szeged
    ' is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county town of Csongrád county. The University of Szeged is one of the most distinguished universities in Hungary....

    Ushoshi Sengupta
    Ushoshi Sengupta
    Ushoshi Sengupta is an Indian beauty pageant contestant who won the title of I Am She – Miss Universe India and represented India in Miss Universe 2010 held at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, Nevada, on August 23.-Early life:...

     
    22 Kolkata
    Kolkata
    Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

    Qory Sandioriva
    Qory Sandioriva
    Qory Sandioriva , is an Indonesian beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned as Puteri Indonesia 2009 on October 9, 2009 by her predecessor, Zivanna Letisha Siregar...

     
    19 Aceh
    Aceh
    Aceh is a special region of Indonesia, located on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra. Its full name is Daerah Istimewa Aceh , Nanggroë Aceh Darussalam and Aceh . Past spellings of its name include Acheh, Atjeh and Achin...

    Rozanna Purcell
    Rozanna Purcell
    Rozanna Purcell is an Irish model and Miss Universe Ireland 2010.Purcell competed in the swimsuit segment and placed 4th with an average score of 8.784...

    19 Clonmel
    Clonmel
    Clonmel is the county town of South Tipperary in Ireland. It is the largest town in the county. While the borough had a population of 15,482 in 2006, another 17,008 people were in the rural hinterland. The town is noted in Irish history for its resistance to the Cromwellian army which sacked both...

    Bat-el Jobi 22 Afula
    Afula
    Afula is a city in the North District of Israel, often known as the "Capital of the Valley", referring to the Jezreel Valley. The city had a population of 40,500 at the end of 2009.-History:...

    Jessica Cecchini
    Jessica Cecchini
    Jessica Cecchini is the winner of the Miss Universo Italia 2010 pageant that was held at the Teatro Antico Greco-Romano in Taormina, Sicilia on July 1, 2010. For the first time ever, the pageant streamed via webcast worldwide on twww.tv...

     
    20 Borgosesia
    Borgosesia
    Borgosesia is a comune in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 80 km northeast of Turin and about 45 km north of Vercelli.The largest town in the Valsesia, it is crossed by the Sesia River....

    Yendi Phillipps  24 Kingston
    Kingston, Jamaica
    Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...

    Maiko Itai
    Maiko Itai
    is a Japanese beauty pageant contestant who won Miss Universe Japan 2010 on 9 March 2010. Itai, the 13th Miss Universe Japan, accepted the crown from Emiri Miyasaka, Miss Universe Japan 2009.She competed in Miss Universe 2010 in the USA.-History:...

     
    26 Ōita
    Oita, Oita
    is the capital city of Ōita Prefecture located on the island of Kyushu, Japan.- Demographics and geography :Ōita is the most populous city in Ōita Prefecture...

    Asselina Kuchukova 27 Almaty
    Almaty
    Almaty , also known by its former names Verny and Alma-Ata , is the former capital of Kazakhstan and the nation's largest city, with a population of 1,348,500...

      Korea
    Miss Korea
    Miss Korea is an annual national beauty pageant responsible for selecting Korea's representative to the Miss Universe pageant.The current titleholder is Lee Seong-hye. She won the title on August 3, 2011 in Seoul.-History:...

    Kim Joo-ri
    Kim Joo-ri
    Kim Joori , is the winner of Miss Korea 2009. For the first time ever, the Miss Korea winner represent Korea in the Miss World 2009,and competed in Miss Universe 2010. She was also crowned as Miss Seoul 2009 before competing in Miss Korea 2009...

     
    22 Seoul
    Seoul
    Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...

      Kosovo
    Miss Universe Kosovo
    Miss Universe Kosova is a national beauty pageant that sends representatives from Kosovo to the Miss Universe pageant since 2008.-History:On April 4, 2008, Fadil Berisha, the photographer of Miss Universe’s official photos, hosted the inaugural "Miss Universe Kosova" pageant where Zana Krasniqi...

    Kështjella Pepshi
    Kështjella Pepshi
    Kështjella Pepshi is a pageant titleholder from Kosovo, who won the national title of Miss Universe Kosovo. Pepshi grew up in Bern, Switzerland, where she competed in the Miss Bern beauty pageant. Later one she went to her home country, Kosovo and won the Miss Universe Kosovo title in early June...

     
    23 Junik
    Junik
    Junik is a municipality and small town in the Đakovica district of western Kosovo. It is located in the west Metohija between Dečani and Đakovica along Kosovo's mountainous border with Albania. It is populated with ethnic Albanians...

    Rahaf Abdallah 22 Khiam
    Khiam
    'Khiam' is a town located in South Lebanon Governorate, near the city of Nabatieh. It is located in Southern Lebanon, 750 meters above sea level, 120 km away from Beirut and roughly four kilometers from the Israeli border.The town was the scene of a major confrontation between the Israeli...

    Nadine Ann Thomas 23 Subang Jaya
    Subang Jaya
    Subang Jaya is a suburban city in the Klang Valley, Selangor, Malaysia. It comprises the southern third of the district of Petaling, and is home to a third of the district population of 1.78 million. Subang Jaya comprises , Bandar Sunway, UEP Subang Jaya, Putra Heights and Batu Tiga...

    Dalysha Doorga 23 Goodlands
    Ximena Navarrete
    Ximena Navarrete
    Jimena "Ximena" Navarrete Rosete is a Mexican model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe 2010. She was previously named as Nuestra Belleza México 2009.-Personal life:...

    22 Guadalajara
    Guadalajara, Jalisco
    Guadalajara is the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of Jalisco in the western-pacific area of Mexico. With a population of 1,564,514 it is Mexico's second most populous municipality...

    Desirée van den Berg 23 Santpoort
    Velsen
    Velsen is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is located on both sides of the North Sea Canal.On the north side of the North Sea Canal, in IJmuiden, there is a major steel plant, Corus Strip Products IJmuiden, formerly known as Koninklijke Hoogovens...

    Ria van Dyke
    Ria van Dyke
    Ria van Dyke was born on February 16, 1989 and is an international model. She is best known as the first New Zealander to represent the Face of beauty and cosmetic brand INNOXA and as beauty pageant title holder Miss Universe New Zealand 2010...

     
    21 Auckland
    Auckland
    The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

    Scharllette Allen
    Scharllette Allen
    -External links:*...

     
    18 Bluefields
    Bluefields
    Bluefields is the capital of the municipality of the same name, and of Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur in Nicaragua. It was also capital of the former Zelaya Department, which was divided into North and South Atlantic Autonomous Regions...

    Ngozi Odalonu 22 Niger
    Niger State
    Niger State is a state in the western part of Nigeria and the largest state in the country. The state capital is Minna, and other major cities are Bida, Kontagora, and Suleja. It was formed in 1976 when the then North-Western State was bifurcated into Niger State and Sokoto State.The state is named...

    Melinda Elvenes 23 Larvik
    Larvik
    is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Larvik. Larvik kommune - has about 41 364 inhabitants and covers 530 km2....

    Anyoli Abrego  22 Santiago de Veraguas
    Santiago de Veraguas
    Santiago de Veraguas is the capital of the Panamanian province Veraguas. Santiago is located in southern Veraguas near the provincial border with Herrera. The city has approximately 60,059 people according to the Panama 1990 Census. Santiago is one of the oldest settlements in Panama. The...

    Yohana Benitez
    Yohana Benítez
    Yohana Benítez is a Paraguayan beauty queen. On July 16, 2010 she was crowned Miss Universo Paraguay 2010, later she represented her country in the Miss Universe 2010 Pageant held in Las Vegas, U.S...

     
    23 San Lorenzo
    Giuliana Zevallos
    Giuliana Zevallos
    Giuliana Zevallos Roncagliolo is a beauty queen who was crowned Miss Continente Americano 2010 on September 18, 2010, becoming that pageant's very first titleholder from her country....

     
    22 Loreto
    Loreto Region
    Loreto is Peru's northernmost region. Covering almost one-third of Peru's territory, Loreto is by far the nation's largest region and also one of the most sparsely populated ones, due to its remote location in the Amazon Rainforest...

    Venus Raj  22 Bato
    Bato, Camarines Sur
    Bato is a rural municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, Philippines. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 44,437 people.-History:...

    Maria Nowakowska  23 Legnica
    Legnica
    Legnica is a town in south-western Poland, in Silesia, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the plain of Legnica, riverside: Kaczawa and Czarna Woda. Between 1 June 1975 and 31 December 1998 Legnica was the capital of the Legnica Voivodeship. It is currently the seat of the county...

    Mariana Vicente
    Mariana Vicente
    Mariana Paola Vicente Morales is a Puerto Rican model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2010 and placed in the Top 10 at the 2010 Miss Universe pageant.-Biography:...

     
    21 Río Grande
    Río Grande, Puerto Rico
    Río Grande is a municipality of Puerto Rico located in the Northern Coastal Valley, North of Las Piedras, Naguabo and Ceiba; east of Loíza and Canóvanas and west of Luquillo. Río Grande is spread over eight wards and Río Grande Pueblo...

    Oana Paveluc
    Oana Paveluc
    Oana Paveluc is a beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned new Miss Universe Romania 2010 on July 14, 2010 after Alexandra Cătălina Filip, the original winner, was dethroned, as she refused to sign the contract with the Miss Universe Organization...

     
    19 Braşov
    Brasov
    Brașov is a city in Romania and the capital of Brașov County.According to the last Romanian census, from 2002, there were 284,596 people living within the city of Brașov, making it the 8th most populated city in Romania....

    Irina Antonenko
    Irina Antonenko
    Irina Igorevna Antonenko is a Russian actress, model and beauty queen who helds the title of Miss Russia 2010. She also placed in the Top 15 at the Miss Universe 2010 pageant held on August 23, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada.- Biography :...

     
    18 Yekaterinburg
    Yekaterinburg
    Yekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's...

    Lidija Kocić 22 Belgrade
    Belgrade
    Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

    Tania Lim Kim Suan 22 Singapore
    Singapore
    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

    ' Anna Amenová 25 Bratislava
    Bratislava
    Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...

    Marika Savšek
    Marika Savšek
    Marika Savšek is a Slovenian beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned and represented her country in Miss Universe 2010.-Early life:Born in Šmartno pri Litiji, Savšek grew up with brothers Andrej, Janez; and sister Ana...

     
    23 Šmartno pri Litiji
    Šmartno pri Litiji
    Šmartno pri Litiji is a town and a municipality in central Slovenia. It is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Central Slovenian statistical region. The town itself is located 3 km southeast of Litija at the confluence of three creeks: Reka, Črni potok and...

    Nicole Flint
    Nicole Flint
    Nicole Flint is a South African model and public relations professional from Pretoria who was crowned Miss South Africa 2009.-Miss Universe 2010:...

     
    22 Pretoria
    Pretoria
    Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.Pretoria is...

    Adriana Reverón
    Adriana Reverón
    Adriana Reverón Moreno is a Spanish beauty queen from Los Cristianos, Tenerife who represented her country in Miss Universe 2010 and Miss Earth 2008.-Early life:...

     
    24 Tenerife
    Tenerife
    Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...

    Ishanka Madurasinghe 23 Kegalle
    Kegalle
    Kegalle is a town in Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka. It is located on the Colombo - Kandy road. Its 48 miles/78 km away from Colombo and 24 Miles/40 km away from Kandy. It is the Capital City of the Kegalle District which is one of the two districts belonging to Sabaragamuwa province...

    Michaela Savic
    Michaela Savić
    Michaela Savić, born March 14, 1991 in Helsingborg, Skåne, is a Swedish beauty pageant titleholder and model. Savic is Miss Universe Sweden 2010. She attended Miss Universe 2010 in Las Vegas on August 23. She has been a model since the age of 14 and attended to several castings, plays and fashion...

     
    19 Helsingborg
    Helsingborg
    Helsingborg is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 97,122 inhabitants in 2010. Helsingborg is the centre of an area in the Øresund region of about 320,000 inhabitants in north-west Scania, and is Sweden's closest point to Denmark, with the Danish city...

    Linda Fäh
    Linda Fäh
    Linda Fäh is a model and a pageant titleholder from Benken in the canton of St. Gallen. Although Fäh was a favorite for the crown, she failed to place at the Miss universe pageant.-External links:...

     
    22 Benken
    Benken, St. Gallen
    Benken is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.-Geography:Benken has an area, , of . Of this area, 72.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 12.6% is forested...

    Hellen Dausen 23 Arusha
    Arusha
    Arusha is a city in northern Tanzania. It is the capital of the Arusha Region, which claims a population of 1,288,088, including 281,608 for the Arusha District . Arusha is surrounded by some of Africa's most famous landscapes and national parks...

    Fonthip Watcharatrakul
    Fonthip Watcharatrakul
    Fonthip Watcharatrakul , nicknamed Pook Look is a beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Thailand Universe 2010 and represented Thailand in Miss Universe 2010.-Biography:...

     
    20 Samut Prakan
    Samut Prakan Province
    Samut Prakan is one of the central provinces of Thailand. It is part of the Bangkok Metropolitan Region. Neighboring provinces are Bangkok, to the north and west, and Chachoengsao to the east....

    ' LaToya Woods  24 Couva
    Couva
    Couva is a town in west-central Trinidad, south of Chaguanas and north of Claxton Bay and San Fernando. The Greater Couva area includes the Point Lisas Industrial Estate and the Port of Point Lisas. Couva's southern boundary is at the town of California, and to the north Couva stretches to McBean...

    Gizem Memiç
    Gizem Memiç
    Gizem Memiç is a Turkish beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of Miss Turkey 2010 on Thursday 1 April 2010. Gizem Memiç accepted the crown from Ebru Şam, Miss Turkey 2009...

     
    20 Gaziantep
    Gaziantep
    Gaziantep , Ottoman Turkish: Ayintab) previously and still informally called Antep; ʻayn tāb is a city in southeast Turkey and amongst the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. The city is located 185 kilometres northeast of Adana and 127 kilometres by road north of Aleppo, Syria...

    Anna Poslavska  23 Nova Kakhovka
    Nova Kakhovka
    Nova Kakhovka is a city in the Kherson Oblast of southern Ukraine, recognized as the Monument of Architecture, and was part of the Great Construction Projects of Communism....

    Stephany Ortega
    Stephany Ortega
    Stephany Ortega is an uruguayan contestant who won Miss Uruguay 2010. She represented her country in Stephany Ortega is an [[Uruguay|uruguayan]] contestant who won [[Miss Uruguay 2010]]. She represented her country in...

     
    20 Montevideo
    Montevideo
    Montevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...

     United States Rima Fakih
    Rima Fakih
    Rima Fakih is an American beauty pageant contestant, and winner of the 2010 Miss USA title, and is also training to be a professional wrestler in WWE as a WWE Diva. She represented the state of Michigan in the Miss USA 2010 pageant, having previously won the 2010 Miss Michigan USA competition...

     
    24 Dearborn
    Dearborn, Michigan
    -Economy:Ford Motor Company has its world headquarters in Dearborn. In addition its Dearborn campus contains many research, testing, finance and some production facilities. Ford Land controls the numerous properties owned by Ford including sales and leasing to unrelated businesses such as the...

     United States Virgin Islands Janeisha John 22 St. Croix
    Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
    Saint Croix is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands , an unincorporated territory of the United States. Formerly the Danish West Indies, they were sold to the United States by Denmark in the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of...

    Marelisa Gibson
    Marelisa Gibson
    Marelisa Gibson Villegas is a Venezuelan beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Venezuela 2009.-Early life:Gibson was born in Caracas, where she now studies architecture at the Central University of Venezuela. She speaks Spanish, English and French...

     
    21 Caracas
    Caracas
    Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...

    Alice Musukwa 22 Lusaka
    Lusaka
    Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia. It is located in the southern part of the central plateau, at an elevation of about 1,300 metres . It has a population of about 1.7 million . It is a commercial centre as well as the centre of government, and the four main highways of Zambia head...


    Returning countries and territories

    • Last competed in 1989
      Miss Universe 1989
      Miss Universe 1989, the 38th Miss Universe pageant was held at Fiesta Americana Condesa Hotel, Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico on May 23, 1989. Angela Visser of Holland was crowned as Miss Universe 1989. Seventy-six contestants competed for the crown....

      :

    • Last competed in 2002
      Miss Universe 2002
      Miss Universe 2002, the 51st edition of the Miss Universe pageant, was held in Coliseo Roberto Clemente, San Juan, Puerto Rico on May 29, 2002. There were 75 delegates from around the world who competed for the title Miss Universe 2002. Oxana Fedorova of Russia was crowned Miss Universe 2002 by...

      :

    • Last competed in 2004
      Miss Universe 2004
      Miss Universe 2004, the 53rd Miss Universe pageant, was held in Centro de Convenciones CEMEXPO, Quito, Ecuador on June 1, 2004. It was won by Jennifer Hawkins of Australia....

      :

    • Last competed in 2007
      Miss Universe 2007
      Miss Universe 2007, the 56th Miss Universe pageant, took place on May 28, 2007 at the National Auditorium in Mexico City, Mexico. 77 delegates competed for the title. Riyo Mori of Japan was crowned the winner of the title by Zuleyka Rivera of Puerto Rico....

      :

    • Last competed in 2008
      Miss Universe 2008
      Miss Universe 2008, the 57th Miss Universe pageant, was held at the Crown Convention Center in the Diamond Bay Resort, Nha Trang, Vietnam on July 14, 2008...

      :
      • '


    Replacements

    •  – Alejandra Barillas was Miss Universe Guatemala 2010 until she injured her left foot in an accident. This stopped her from participating in the pageant. She was replaced by one of her runners-up, Jessica Scheel
      Jessica Scheel
      Jessica María Scheel Noyola is a beauty queen who has competed at the Miss Guatemala, Miss Earth 2007 and Miss Universe pageant.-Pageantry:...

      . She competed 1 year later at Miss Universe 2011
      Miss Universe 2011
      Miss Universe 2011, the 60th anniversary of the Miss Universe pageant, was held at the Credicard Hall in São Paulo, Brazil on September 12, 2011. Ximena Navarrete of Mexico crowned her successor, Leila Lopes of Angola, at the end of this event...

      .
    •  – Alexandra Catalina Filip was Miss Universe Romania 2010 but 1st Runner-up, Oana Paveluc
      Oana Paveluc
      Oana Paveluc is a beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned new Miss Universe Romania 2010 on July 14, 2010 after Alexandra Cătălina Filip, the original winner, was dethroned, as she refused to sign the contract with the Miss Universe Organization...

      , represented Romania instead.
    •  – Turkey sent Miss Turkey World 2010, Gizem Memic
      Gizem Memiç
      Gizem Memiç is a Turkish beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of Miss Turkey 2010 on Thursday 1 April 2010. Gizem Memiç accepted the crown from Ebru Şam, Miss Turkey 2009...

      , because its Miss Universe 2010, Serenay Sarikaya, was below 18 and did not meet the age requirement.

    Withdrawals

    •  – The Miss Bulgaria Organization did not send a representative to compete in Miss Universe 2010.
    •  – On September 8, 2009, it was announced that the Miss Cayman Islands 2009 contest would not take place due to lack of funding and sponsorship. Since the winner of that contest also competes in Miss World, there was no Caymanian representative to Miss World 2009
      Miss World 2009
      Miss World 2009, the 59th Miss World pageant, was held on December 12, 2009 at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. 112 contestants from all over the world competed for the crown, marking the biggest turnout in the pageant's history...

       either.
    •  – Valeri Kirss, Estonia’s national director, was selling the Eesti Miss Estonia pageant.
    • - Original contestant Nikolina Lončar
      Nikolina Lončar
      Nikolina Lončar is a Montenegrin beauty pageant titleholder from Pljevlja who was expected to represent Montenegro in the Miss Universe pageant.-Miss Montenegro:...

       was not allowed to participate because she was only 16 at the time of her crowning. She later participated in Miss Universe 2011
      Miss Universe 2011
      Miss Universe 2011, the 60th anniversary of the Miss Universe pageant, was held at the Credicard Hall in São Paulo, Brazil on September 12, 2011. Ximena Navarrete of Mexico crowned her successor, Leila Lopes of Angola, at the end of this event...

      .
    •  – Miss Namibia 2010, Odile Gertze
      Odile Gertze
      - External links :*...

      , was crowned on July 31, 2010. Since that was only one week from the official start of Miss Universe 2010, national director Connie Maritz decided not to send the winner to Miss Universe but to Miss World 2010 and Miss Universe 2011 instead.
    •  – Vietnam did not have a representative this year. They officially withdrew from the pageant.

    Crossovers

    The following contestants previously competed at notable national and international beauty pageants:
    •  – Yesica Di Vincenzo competed at Miss International 2008
      Miss International 2008
      Miss International 2008, the 48th Miss International pageant was held at the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, Macau on November 8, 2008. 63 contestants from all over the world competed for the crown, marking the biggest turnout in the 48 years of the pageant, surpassing the previous of 61 during last...

      . In 2010, she participated in Reina Hispanoamericana
      Reina Hispanoamericana 2010
      Reina Hispanoamericana 2010, the 20th Reina Hispanoamericana beauty pageant, was held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on November 24, 2010. Twenty-two delegates from the Americas and the Iberian peninsula competed for the title....

       and placed seventh.
    •  – Débora Lyra
      Débora Lyra
      Débora Lyra , is a Brazilian beauty queen who won the Miss Brazil 2010.-Biography:Lyra was born in Vitória, but spent two years living in the mining town of Divinópolis. She was a model since age 8, and wanted to be Miss Brazil since age 12. With the encouragement of her father, she soon began to...

       competed at Top Model of the World
      Top Model of the World
      The Top Model of the World is an international search for the ultimate model. The sought-after characteristics are: independence, talent and fashion consciousness...

       2008 and won.
    •  – Elena Semikina
      Elena Semikina
      Elena Semikina is a Canadian beauty pageant contestant. She was crowned Miss Universe Canada 2010 in Toronto, Ontario, on June 14, 2010. She previously placed in the top 10 in 2008...

       competed at Miss International 2008
      Miss International 2008
      Miss International 2008, the 48th Miss International pageant was held at the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, Macau on November 8, 2008. 63 contestants from all over the world competed for the crown, marking the biggest turnout in the 48 years of the pageant, surpassing the previous of 61 during last...

      , but did not place.
    •  – Jessica Scheel
      Jessica Scheel
      Jessica María Scheel Noyola is a beauty queen who has competed at the Miss Guatemala, Miss Earth 2007 and Miss Universe pageant.-Pageantry:...

      , was a contestant in Miss Earth 2007
      Miss Earth 2007
      Miss Earth 2007, the seventh Miss Earth beauty pageant, was held on November 11, 2007 at the UP Theater in Quezon City, Philippines. The delegates also visited Nha Trang, Vietnam. 88 delegates competed for the title, making 2007 the largest edition of delegates for Miss Earth. The pageant was...

      .
    •  – Yendi Phillipps competed in Miss World 2007
      Miss World 2007
      Miss World 2007, the 57th Miss World pageant was held at the Crown of Beauty Theatre, Sanya, People's Republic of China on December 1, 2007. It was hosted by Fernando Allende and Angela Chow. Zhang Zilin of the People's Republic of China won the crown and succeeded Miss World 2006, Taťána Kuchařová...

       and placed in the top 16 ("Beach Beauty" 1st runner-up).
    • ' – Kim Joo-ri
      Kim Joo-ri
      Kim Joori , is the winner of Miss Korea 2009. For the first time ever, the Miss Korea winner represent Korea in the Miss World 2009,and competed in Miss Universe 2010. She was also crowned as Miss Seoul 2009 before competing in Miss Korea 2009...

       competed in Miss World 2009
      Miss World 2009
      Miss World 2009, the 59th Miss World pageant, was held on December 12, 2009 at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. 112 contestants from all over the world competed for the crown, marking the biggest turnout in the pageant's history...

       and placed in the top 16 (Continental Queen of Asia & Oceania).
    •  – Giuliana Zevallos
      Giuliana Zevallos
      Giuliana Zevallos Roncagliolo is a beauty queen who was crowned Miss Continente Americano 2010 on September 18, 2010, becoming that pageant's very first titleholder from her country....

       was crowned Miss Continente Americano 2010
      Miss Continente Americano 2010
      Miss Continente Americano 2010, the 5th edition of the Miss Continente Americano pageant, was held in Guayaquil, Ecuador on September 18, 2010...

       and competed in Miss Earth 2008
      Miss Earth 2008
      Miss Earth 2008, the 8th edition of Miss Earth beauty pageant, was held on November 9, 2008 at the Clark Expo Amphitheater in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines. Eighty-five delegates arrived from October 19, 2008 in the Philippines...

      .
    •  – Adriana Reverón
      Adriana Reverón
      Adriana Reverón Moreno is a Spanish beauty queen from Los Cristianos, Tenerife who represented her country in Miss Universe 2010 and Miss Earth 2008.-Early life:...

       placed in the top 8 at Miss Earth 2008
      Miss Earth 2008
      Miss Earth 2008, the 8th edition of Miss Earth beauty pageant, was held on November 9, 2008 at the Clark Expo Amphitheater in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines. Eighty-five delegates arrived from October 19, 2008 in the Philippines...

      .
    •  United States Virgin Islands – Janeisha John represented her territory at Miss America 2008
      Miss America 2008
      Miss America 2008, the 87th Miss America pageant, was held at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on January 26, 2008.The pageant was broadcast live on TLC from the Theatre for the Performing Arts at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, only the third time that the pageant has been...

      , but was unplaced.
    •  – Stephany Ortega
      Stephany Ortega
      Stephany Ortega is an uruguayan contestant who won Miss Uruguay 2010. She represented her country in Stephany Ortega is an [[Uruguay|uruguayan]] contestant who won [[Miss Uruguay 2010]]. She represented her country in...

       competed in Reina Hispanoamericana 2010
      Reina Hispanoamericana 2010
      Reina Hispanoamericana 2010, the 20th Reina Hispanoamericana beauty pageant, was held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on November 24, 2010. Twenty-two delegates from the Americas and the Iberian peninsula competed for the title....

       and placed sixth.

    Miss World 2010
    Miss World 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.-Vietnam backed out:On June...

    • : Braneka Basset (Top 25 semifinalist)
    • : Cilou Annys
      Cilou Annys
      Cilou Annys is a Belgian beauty pageant contestant from Bruges who won Miss Belgium 2010 on 10 January 2010. She is also Miss West Flanders...

    • : Asselina Kuchukova
    • : Rahaf Abdallah
    • : Dalysha Doorga
    • : Desirée van den Berg (Top 25 semifinalist)
    • : Nicole Flint
      Nicole Flint
      Nicole Flint is a South African model and public relations professional from Pretoria who was crowned Miss South Africa 2009.-Miss Universe 2010:...

       (Top 25 semifinalist)
    • : Gizem Memiç
      Gizem Memiç
      Gizem Memiç is a Turkish beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of Miss Turkey 2010 on Thursday 1 April 2010. Gizem Memiç accepted the crown from Ebru Şam, Miss Turkey 2009...


    Prizes

    The Miss Universe 2010 prize package includes:

    Miss Universe 2010
    • The official Crown of Miss Universe 2010 designed by Diamond Nexus Labs
    • Jewelry package designed by Diamond Nexus Labs
    • Year-long salary as Miss Universe
    • Luxurious New York City apartment for one year
    • Hair care products from Farouk Systems
    • A designer swimwear collection from Dar Be Dar by Tala Raassi
      Tala Raassi
      Tala Raassi born in Iran is a bikini designer for her own swimwear line Dar Be Dar, she has designed bikinis for the Miss Universe 2010 pageant. Tala Raassi has told in interviews that when she was sixteen years old and living in Iran she was punished with 40 lashes for showing too much skin after...

    • One-year scholarship from New York Film Academy
    • Sherri Hill Eveningwear
    • Shoe wardrobe from Nina Footwear
    • Modeling portfolio by Fadil Berisha
      Fadil Berisha
      Fadil Berisha is an Albanian American fashion photographer living in New York. He is the official photographer for Miss Universe, Miss USA....

    • Hair, dental and skin services
    • Professional health and nutrition consultation
    • Membership to fitness club


    Miss Photogenic

    Award was voted by online viewers who went to NBC.com to vote for their favorite contestant.
    • $1000 cash prize
    • Gift from Diamond Nexus Lab


    Miss Congeniality

    Award was voted by the 83 participating delegates.
    • $1000 cash prize
    • Gift from Diamond Nexus Lab


    Best National Costume

    Award was decided by online voters who went to Club Universe, an exclusive membership club on the Miss Universe website.

    International broadcasters

    These are some of the networks outside the United States (telecasted on NBC
    NBC
    The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

     and Telemundo
    Telemundo
    Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....

    ) that showed the 2010 Miss Universe pageant live (or recorded earlier) in their respective countries and territories:
    • : STAR World
      STAR World
      STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

    • : RTV21
      RTV21
      RTV21 is a radio and TV broadcaster operating in Kosovo since 1998. The radio broadcasting started in 1998, while TV broadcasting began in 1999 after Serbian forces withdrew from Kosovo. RTV21 is the most popular channel in Kosovo. RTv21 has also other two channels 21+ and 21 Popullore...

    • : KKHJ-LP
    • : TNT
      Turner Network Television
      Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

    • : ATV
      ATV (Aruba)
      ATV is the Aruba NBC affiliate, broadcasting on Channel 15 on SETAR's cable TV system and Channel 8 on terrestrial television in the NTSC television standard. The station has the call-sign of PJA-TV , though it goes by its branding of "Aruba Television"...

    • : 7TWO
      7Two
      7TWO is an Australian free-to-air standard definition digital television channel which was launched by the Seven Network on Sunday 1 November 2009 at 12pm....

       and STAR One
      STAR One
      STAR One is an Indian television channel that primarily broadcasts Hindi entertainment based in Mumbai. Launched on 1 November 2004 with its show, Remix, the channel gained in popularity with television shows such as Remix, The Great Indian Laughter Challenge, Nach Baliye, Sarabhai vs Sarabhai,...

    • : ZNS-TV
      ZNS-TV
      ZNS is a national radio and TV broadcaster operated by the state-owned Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas....

    • : STAR World
      STAR World
      STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

    • : TNT
      Turner Network Television
      Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

    • : Star! Benelux
      Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia is a television channel in northern Europe that is devoted to entertainment and celebrity news and programming. The channel is managed by Scandinavian television broadcaster NonStop Television, part of Turner Broadcasting System, TBS, Inc., which merged with Time Warner in 1996,...

    • : VSB-TV
      VSB-TV
      VSB-TV is the NBC television affiliate for Hamilton, Bermuda. The station broadcasts on channel 11. In addition to carrying the full NBC network East Coast feed, VSB locally produces a half-hour nightly newscast at 7 p.m., preceding the NBC Nightly News...

    • : Unitel
      Unitel Bolivia
      UNITEL is a Bolivian television network headquartered in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. It was founded in 1987. It is owned by businessman Osvaldo Monasterio Nieme. The station is well known for its political bias towards Bolivia's right-wing opposition parties....

       and TNT
      Turner Network Television
      Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

    • : Rede Bandeirantes
      Rede Bandeirantes
      Rede Bandeirantes , officially nicknamed Band or Band Network, is a television network from Brazil, based in São Paulo. Part of the Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação , it aired for the first time in 1967...

       and TNT Latin America
      Turner Network Television
      Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

    • : WNBC
      WNBC
      WNBC, virtual channel 4 , is the flagship station of the NBC television network, located in New York City. WNBC's studios are co-located with NBC corporate headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in midtown Manhattan...

    • : Citytv
      Citytv
      Citytv is a Canadian English language television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications under its Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. division...

    • : TNT Latin America
      Turner Network Television
      Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

    • : Star World
      STAR World
      STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

    • : Caracol TV
      Caracol TV
      Caracol Televisión is a Colombian private national television network, owned by Julio Mario Santo Domingo.- History :Caracol Televisión started in 1954 when Organización de Radiodifusora Caracol offered to afford national television costs, then state-run, through commercial spots...

       and TNT
      Turner Network Television
      Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

    • : Teletica
      Teletica
      Teletica, formerly known as Televisora de Costa Rica S.A., is a Costa Rican television company, founded in 1958; it was the first television company in Costa Rica. It operates Teletica Canal 7 and Teletica Canal 33. It has mostly imported programming and it also handles a high production and...

    • : Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia is a television channel in northern Europe that is devoted to entertainment and celebrity news and programming. The channel is managed by Scandinavian television broadcaster NonStop Television, part of Turner Broadcasting System, TBS, Inc., which merged with Time Warner in 1996,...

    • : Telemundo
      Telemundo
      Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....

      , Colorvision
      Colorvision
      Color Visión is a television network based in the Dominican Republic. It is one of the largest television channels in that country. Color Visión is channel 9 in the Dominican Republic's television dial.-History:...

       and TNT
      Turner Network Television
      Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

    • : Gama TV
      Gama TV
      Gama TV is an ecuadorian television affiliate of Televisa in Mexico. The belonged to financial Group Isaías and is operated by the Company Teledos SA Pacific TV in the cities of Quito and Guayaquil after the disappearance of its predecessor Gamavisión .Known is the involvement of Televisa ,...

       and TNT
      Turner Network Television
      Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

    • : MBC 3
      MBC 3
      MBC 3 is a free-to-air children channel that hosts by Dania al-Shafii and Hassan al-Mula and belongs to the Middle East Broadcasting Center . It was launched on 8 December 2004...

    • : TCS
    • : Star!
      Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia is a television channel in northern Europe that is devoted to entertainment and celebrity news and programming. The channel is managed by Scandinavian television broadcaster NonStop Television, part of Turner Broadcasting System, TBS, Inc., which merged with Time Warner in 1996,...

       and Viasat Baltics
      Viasat
      Viasat is a DBS distributor and TV broadcaster, owned by the Swedish media conglomerate Modern Times Group. Broadcasting from London, the target markets are in the Nordic and the Baltic Countries...

    • : MTV3
      MTV3
      MTV3 is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier. It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Finnish Broadcasting Company’s YLE1 took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV , due to the channel getting its revenue from running commercials...

      , Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia is a television channel in northern Europe that is devoted to entertainment and celebrity news and programming. The channel is managed by Scandinavian television broadcaster NonStop Television, part of Turner Broadcasting System, TBS, Inc., which merged with Time Warner in 1996,...

       and Showtime Scandinavia
    • : Paris Première
      Paris Première
      Paris Première is a French TV channel, available on cable, satellite and the digital terrestrial service, Télévision Numérique Terrestre. It was launched on December 15, 1986 and is now wholly owned by M6.-External links:*...

    • : Das Vierte
    • : ANT1
      ANT1
      Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a television network airing in Greece and Cyprus. The alternate spelling is play on words in Greek; ena is the Greek number 1, thus ANT1 is pronounced the same as Antenna . It launched on 31 December 1989, the same year as rival Mega Channel, and is owned by...

    • : Sisimiut TV
    • : KUAM-TV
      KUAM-TV
      KUAM-TV is the NBC affiliate serving Guam. The station is currently owned by Pacific Telestations, Inc., and is a sister station to CBS affiliate KUAM-LP and the local Public-access television cable channel Local 2...

    • : TNT
      Turner Network Television
      Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

    • : Canal 11
      Canal 11 (Honduras)
      Canal 11 is a television station in Honduras.-External links:**...

       and TNT
      Turner Network Television
      Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

    • : TVB Pearl
      TVB Pearl
      TVB Pearl is one of the two free television services in Hong Kong that mainly broadcast in the English language, the other being ATV World. It is owned and operated by Television Broadcasts Limited, and together with its sister Cantonese language station TVB Jade, is broadcast from TVB City at 77...

       and Star World
      STAR World
      STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

    • : Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia is a television channel in northern Europe that is devoted to entertainment and celebrity news and programming. The channel is managed by Scandinavian television broadcaster NonStop Television, part of Turner Broadcasting System, TBS, Inc., which merged with Time Warner in 1996,...

       and Showtime Scandinavia
      NonStop Television
      NonStop Television is a Scandinavian television company, part of Turner Broadcasting System, packaging and distributing a number of specialty channels, mostly to the Nordic region. The company is a part of Millennium Media Group...

    • : Star World
      STAR World
      STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

    • : Indosiar
      Indosiar
      Indosiar is a publicly owned national television station in Indonesia, and has been operating from West Jakarta since 1994. It was listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange in 2004. Citibank Singapore has an 8.5 percent shareholding...

       and Star World
      STAR World
      STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

    • : STAR One
      STAR One
      STAR One is an Indian television channel that primarily broadcasts Hindi entertainment based in Mumbai. Launched on 1 November 2004 with its show, Remix, the channel gained in popularity with television shows such as Remix, The Great Indian Laughter Challenge, Nach Baliye, Sarabhai vs Sarabhai,...

    • : Channel 9
    • : Stream
      Stream
      A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, "crick", gill , kill, lick, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, run or...

    • : TNT
      Turner Network Television
      Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

    • : TV Asahi
      TV Asahi
      , also known as EX and , is a Japanese television network headquartered in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The company writes its name in lower-case letters, tv asahi, in its logo and public-image materials. The company also owns All-Nippon News Network....

      (November 2011)

    •  Republic of Kosovo: RTV21
      RTV21
      RTV21 is a radio and TV broadcaster operating in Kosovo since 1998. The radio broadcasting started in 1998, while TV broadcasting began in 1999 after Serbian forces withdrew from Kosovo. RTV21 is the most popular channel in Kosovo. RTv21 has also other two channels 21+ and 21 Popullore...

    • : Star!
      Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia is a television channel in northern Europe that is devoted to entertainment and celebrity news and programming. The channel is managed by Scandinavian television broadcaster NonStop Television, part of Turner Broadcasting System, TBS, Inc., which merged with Time Warner in 1996,...

       and Viasat Baltics
      Viasat
      Viasat is a DBS distributor and TV broadcaster, owned by the Swedish media conglomerate Modern Times Group. Broadcasting from London, the target markets are in the Nordic and the Baltic Countries...

    • : LBC
      LBC
      LBC Radio operates two London-based radio stations, with news and talk formats. LBC was Britain's first legal commercial Independent Local Radio station, providing a service of news and information to London. It began broadcasting on 8 October 1973, a week ahead of Capital Radio...

       and MBC 3
      MBC 3
      MBC 3 is a free-to-air children channel that hosts by Dania al-Shafii and Hassan al-Mula and belongs to the Middle East Broadcasting Center . It was launched on 8 December 2004...

    • : STAR World
      STAR World
      STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

    • : STAR World
      STAR World
      STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

    • : STAR World
      STAR World
      STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

    • : Televisa
      Televisa
      Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

       and TNT
      Turner Network Television
      Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

    •  Myanmar: STAR World
      STAR World
      STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

    • : Star! Benelux
      Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia is a television channel in northern Europe that is devoted to entertainment and celebrity news and programming. The channel is managed by Scandinavian television broadcaster NonStop Television, part of Turner Broadcasting System, TBS, Inc., which merged with Time Warner in 1996,...

    • : STAR World
      STAR World
      STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

    • : Vibe
      Vibe (TV channel)
      Vibe is an entertainment channel on New Zealand's SKY Television. It is not part of the Freeview service.The channel is aimed mostly at a female audience and includes drama, comedy and reality series, many of which will airing on SKY for the first time....

    • : Televicentro
      Televicentro (Canal 2)
      Televicentro is a nationwide terrestrial television channel from Nicaragua owned by Televicentro de Nicaragua, S.A.- History :Televicentro de Nicaragua, S.A. was founded in December 1965 by Octavio Sacasa Sarria, first broadcast in March, 1966. It was the second television channel in Nicaragua,...

    • : WSZE
    • : TV2, Showtime Scandinavia and Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia is a television channel in northern Europe that is devoted to entertainment and celebrity news and programming. The channel is managed by Scandinavian television broadcaster NonStop Television, part of Turner Broadcasting System, TBS, Inc., which merged with Time Warner in 1996,...

    • : STAR World
      STAR World
      STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

    • : Telemetro and TNT
      Turner Network Television
      Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

    • : STAR World
      STAR World
      STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

    • : Telefuturo
      Telefuturo
      Telefuturo, sometimes known as Canal 4, is an paraguayan television network. Operates between 66 and 72 MHz in Asunción, and reaches almost the entire population of Paraguay. Telefuturo coverage almost all the Región Oriental, where approximately 97% of the population of Paraguay lives. Since its...

       and TNT
      Turner Network Television
      Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

    • : ATV
      ATV (Peruvian Network)
      ATV or Andina de Radiodifusión y Television shortly known as ATV, is a Peruvian television network founded in 1969, after unsuccessful attempt on early 1970s and after the political turmoil in Peru the station was closed...

       and TNT
      Turner Network Television
      Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

    • : ABS-CBN
      ABS-CBN
      ABS–CBN Corporation is a Philippine-based media conglomerate. It is the Philippines' largest media and entertainment conglomerate. The corporation was the merger of Alto Broadcasting System which at that time owned by James Lindenberg and Antonio Quirino, and the Chronicle Broadcasting Network ...

       and Star World
      STAR World
      STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

    • : Telemundo
      Telemundo
      Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....

    • : TVR
      Romanian television
      Romanian television may refer to:* Communications media in Romania* Televiziunea Română, TVR, the national television network* List of Romanian language television channels...

    • : C1R
      Channel One (Russia)
      Channel One is the first television channel to broadcast in the Soviet Union. The channel was renamed Ostankino Channel 1 in 1991, after the Soviet Union broke up and the Russian SFSR became the Russian Federation. According to a recent government publication, the Russian government controls 51%...

    • : MBC 3
      MBC 3
      MBC 3 is a free-to-air children channel that hosts by Dania al-Shafii and Hassan al-Mula and belongs to the Middle East Broadcasting Center . It was launched on 8 December 2004...

    • : RTS
      Radio Television of Serbia
      Radio Television of Serbia or Serbian Broadcasting Corporation is the public broadcaster in Serbia. It broadcasts and produces a variety of news, drama, and sports programming through radio, television and the Internet. RTS is, since July 2001, a member of the European Broadcasting Union. RTS is...

    • : MediaCorp Channel 5 and STAR World
      STAR World
      STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

    • : STAR World
      STAR World
      STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

    • : Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia is a television channel in northern Europe that is devoted to entertainment and celebrity news and programming. The channel is managed by Scandinavian television broadcaster NonStop Television, part of Turner Broadcasting System, TBS, Inc., which merged with Time Warner in 1996,...

    • : CTS
      Chinese Television System
      Chinese Television System is a broadcast television station in Republic of China .-History:Founded on October 31, 1971, CTS started off as a joint venture between the ROC's Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Education. At the time of its establishment, CTS was the only VHF-supported...

       and STAR World
      STAR World
      STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

    • : Channel 7 (Thailand) and Star World
      STAR World
      STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

    • :NBC
      NBC
      The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

       Caribbean New Media Group
      Caribbean New Media Group
      The Caribbean New Media Group is a state-run media company in Trinidad and Tobago. The company operates three radio stations: Sweet 100.1, Next 99.1 and "Talk City 91.1", as well as a television station CNMG-TV.They also operate television services on channels 9, 13, and 6. Some of the station's...

       and TNT
      Turner Network Television
      Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

    • : CNBC-e
      CNBC-e
      CNBC-e is a hybrid business/financial and entertainment channel operated in Turkey by CNBC Europe and the NTV Group.The channel shares its name with a co-owned magazine about CNBC-e....

       and NTV
    • : MBC 3
      MBC 3
      MBC 3 is a free-to-air children channel that hosts by Dania al-Shafii and Hassan al-Mula and belongs to the Middle East Broadcasting Center . It was launched on 8 December 2004...

    • : STAR One
      STAR One
      STAR One is an Indian television channel that primarily broadcasts Hindi entertainment based in Mumbai. Launched on 1 November 2004 with its show, Remix, the channel gained in popularity with television shows such as Remix, The Great Indian Laughter Challenge, Nach Baliye, Sarabhai vs Sarabhai,...

    • : TNT
      Turner Network Television
      Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

    •  United States (host country): NBC
      NBC
      The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

       and Telemundo
      Telemundo
      Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....

    •  United States Virgin Islands: WVGN-LP
      WVGN-LP
      WVGN-LP is an NBC-affiliated, low-power television station in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands transmitting over analog channel 14. The station is owned by LKK Group along with sister stations WVGN and WVXF, channel 17....

    • : Venevisión
      Venevisión
      Venevisión is one of Venezuela's largest television networks and a Venezuelan cable and terrestrial television network, which is owned and presided over by Gustavo Cisneros...

       and TNT
      Turner Network Television
      Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

    • : STAR World
      STAR World
      STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

       and VTCHD VIP 1


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