Miss World 1991
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Miss World 1991, the 41st Miss World
Miss World
The Miss World pageant is the oldest surviving major international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951...

 pageant, was held on December 28, 1991 in Georgia World Congress Center
Georgia World Congress Center
The Georgia World Congress Center or GWCC is the major convention center in Atlanta. It is the fourth-largest convention center in the United States at 3.9 million ft2 and hosts more than a million visitors each year. At the time opened in 1976 the Georgia World Congress Center was the first state...

, Atlanta, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

, USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. The winner was Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiménez
Ninibeth Leal
Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiménez is a model, businessperson and fourth Miss World titleholder from Venezuela.-Miss World:...

 representing 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...

.

Results

Final results Contestant
Miss World 1991
  •  Venezuela - Ninibeth Leal
    Ninibeth Leal
    Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiménez is a model, businessperson and fourth Miss World titleholder from Venezuela.-Miss World:...

1st runner-up
  •  Australia - Leanne Buckle
  • 2nd runner-up
  •  South Africa - Diana Tilden-Davis
  • Top 5
  •  Jamaica - Sandra Foster
  •  Namibia - Michelle McLean
    Michelle McLean
    Michelle McLean was crowned Miss Universe in 1992. She was19 years old when she represented Namibia and became the first and only woman from Namibia to win the crown.-Miss World:...

  • Top 10
  •  Early Modern France - Mareva Georges
  •  India - Ritu Singh
  •  New Zealand - Lisa de Montalk
  •  Turkey - Dilek Koruyan
  •  United States - Charlotte Ray
    Charlotte Ray
    Charlotte Ray is a beauty queen from Camden, New Jersey who competed in the Miss USA and Miss World pageants.-Miss USA:Ray won the title of Miss New Jersey USA 1991 in August 1990, the first time she entered the pageant. She went on to represent New Jersey in the 1991 Miss USA pageant, which was...


  • Order of Semi-finalists

    1. France
    2. Turkey
    3. Jamaica
    4. United States
    5. Australia

     6. India
     7. Venezuela
     8. Namibia
     9. South Africa
    10. New Zealand


    Continental Queens

    Continent Contestant
    Africa
    Africa
    Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

    Americas
    Americas
    The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...

  •  Venezuela - Ninibeth Leal
    Ninibeth Leal
    Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiménez is a model, businessperson and fourth Miss World titleholder from Venezuela.-Miss World:...

  • Asia
    Asia
    Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

     & Oceania
    Oceania
    Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...

  •  Australia - Leanne Buckle
  • Caribbean
    Caribbean
    The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...

  •  Jamaica - Sandra Foster
  • 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...

  •  Turkey - Dilek Koruyan

  • 78 Contestants

    Nation Contestant Hometown
    ' Cheryl Leiba Milligan St. Croix
    ' Joanne Bird St. John's
    St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda
    St John's is the capital and largest city of Antigua and Barbuda, a country located in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea. St John's is located at...

     Argentina Marcela Noemi Chazarreta Buenos Aires
    Buenos Aires
    Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

     Aruba Sandra Croes Santa Cruz
    Aruba
    Aruba is a 33 km-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, located 27 km north of the coast of Venezuela and 130 km east of Guajira Peninsula...

     Australia Leanne Buckle Brisbane
    Brisbane
    Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

     Austria Andrea Isabelle Pfeiffer Graz
    Graz
    The more recent population figures do not give the whole picture as only people with principal residence status are counted and people with secondary residence status are not. Most of the people with secondary residence status in Graz are students...

     The Bahamas Tarnia Paula Newton Stuart New Providence
    New Providence
    New Providence is the most populous island in the Bahamas, containing more than 70% of the total population. It also houses the national capital city, Nassau.The island was originally under Spanish control following Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World, but the Spanish government showed...

     Belgium Anke van Dermeersch
    Anke Vandermeersch
    Anke Vandermeersch is a Flemish politician and former beauty queen.-Pageantry:Vandermeersch rose to attention in Belgium during a modelling career, becoming Miss Belgium in 1991 and representing her country at Miss World...

     
    Antwerp
     Belize Josephine (Josie) Gault Belize City
    Belize City
    Belize City is the largest city in the Central American nation of Belize. Unofficial estimates place the population of Belize City at 70,000 or more. It is located at the mouth of the Belize River on the coast of the Caribbean. The city is the country's principal port and its financial and...

     Bolivia Monica Gamarra Giese Cochabamba
    Cochabamba
    Cochabamba is a city in central Bolivia, located in a valley bearing the same name in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and is the fourth largest city in Bolivia with an urban population of 608,276 and a metropolitan population of more than 1,000,000 people...

     Brazil Catia Silene Kupssinski São Paulo
    São Paulo
    São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...

     British Virgin Islands Marjorie Penn Tortola
    Tortola
    Tortola is the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands that form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands. Local tradition recounts that Christopher Columbus named it Tortola, meaning "land of the Turtle Dove". Columbus named the island Santa Ana...

     Kingdom of Bulgaria Liubomira Slavcheva Sofia
    Sofia
    Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

     Cayman Islands Yvette Peggy Jordison Grand Cayman
    Grand Cayman
    Grand Cayman is the largest of the three Cayman Islands and the location of the nation's capital, George Town. In relation to the other two Cayman Islands, it is approximately 75 miles southwest of Little Cayman and 90 miles southwest of Cayman Brac.-Geography:Grand Cayman encompasses 76% of...

      Chile
    Miss World Chile
    Miss World Chile is a national beauty pageant which has been held sporadically since 1963, responsible for selecting Chile's representative to Miss World.-History:Chile has sent 37 representatives, has had two Miss World semifinalists and one finalist...

    Carolina Beatriz Michelson Martinez Santiago
    Santiago, Chile
    Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...

    ' Rebecca Lin Lan-Chih Taipei
    Taipei
    Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...

     Colombia Adriana Rodriguez Anzola Bogota
    Bogotá
    Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...

     Costa Rica Eugenie Jimenez Pacheco San Francisco de Heredia
     Curaçao Nashaira Desbarida 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...

     Cyprus Anna Margaret Stephanou Nicosia
    Nicosia
    Nicosia from , known locally as Lefkosia , is the capital and largest city in Cyprus, as well as its main business center. Nicosia is the only divided capital in the world, with the southern and the northern portions divided by a Green Line...

     Czechoslovakia Andrea Tatarkova Košice
    Košice
    Košice is a city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary...

     Denmark Sharon Givskav Copenhagen
    Copenhagen
    Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

     Dominican Republic Rosanna Rodriguez de la Vega Concepción de La Vega
    Concepción de La Vega
    La Vega, or Concepción de La Vega is the largest city and municipality of the central Dominican Republic and the third of the whole country...

     Ecuador Sueanny Denise Bejarano Lopez 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...

     El Salvador Lucia Beatriz Lopez Rodriguez 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...

     Finland Nina Autio Tampere
    Tampere
    Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of , growing to approximately 300,000 people in the conurbation and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area. Tampere is the third most-populous municipality in...

     Early Modern France Mareva Georges Tahiti
    Tahiti
    Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia. The island was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous...

     Germany Susanne Petry Saarbrücken
    Saarbrücken
    Saarbrücken is the capital of the state of Saarland in Germany. The city is situated at the heart of a metropolitan area that borders on the west on Dillingen and to the north-east on Neunkirchen, where most of the people of the Saarland live....

     Ghana Jamilla Haruna Danzuru Accra
    Accra
    Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, with an urban population of 1,658,937 according to the 2000 census. Accra is also the capital of the Greater Accra Region and of the Accra Metropolitan District, with which it is coterminous...

     Gibraltar Ornella Costa Gibraltar
    Gibraltar
    Gibraltar is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean. A peninsula with an area of , it has a northern border with Andalusia, Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the region...

     Greece Miriam Panagos 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...

     Greenland Bibiane Holm Godthab
     Guam Yvonne Marie Limtiaco Speight Asan
    Asan
    Asan is a city in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea. It is located at , bordering the Seoul Metropolitan Area to the north. Asan has a population of approximately 250,000.Asan is known for its hot springs and is a city of spas....

     Guatemala Marlyn Lorena Magaña Ramirez Guatemala City
    Guatemala City
    Guatemala City , is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Guatemala and Central America...

    ' Linda Egging Spanbroek
    Spanbroek
    Spanbroek is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Opmeer, and lies about northwest of Hoorn.Spanbroek received city rights in 1414. It was a separate municipality until 1959, when it was merged with Opmeer....

     Honduras Arlene Rocio Rauscher Duarte Tegucigalpa
    Tegucigalpa
    Tegucigalpa , and commonly referred as Tegus , is the capital of Honduras and seat of government of the Republic, along with its twin sister Comayagüela. Founded on September 29, 1578 by the Spanish, it became the country's capital on October 30, 1880 under President Marco Aurelio Soto...

     Hungary Orsolya Anna Michina Budapest
    Budapest
    Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

     Iceland Svava Haraldsdóttir Reykjavík
    Reykjavík
    Reykjavík is the capital and largest city in Iceland.Its latitude at 64°08' N makes it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói Bay...

     India Ritu Singh New Delhi
    Delhi
    Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...

     Republic of Ireland Amanda Brunker
    Amanda Brunker
    Amanda Brunker is a novelist, journalist/columnist with the Irish Sunday World newspaper, and former Miss Ireland....

     
    Dublin
     Israel Li'at Ditkovsky Herzliya
    Herzliya
    Herzliya is a city in the central coast of Israel, at the western part of the Tel Aviv District. It has a population of 87,000 residents. Named after Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, Herzliya covers an area of 26 km²...

     Italy Sabina Pellati Reggio Emilia
    Reggio Emilia
    Reggio Emilia is an affluent city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 170,000 inhabitants and is the main comune of the Province of Reggio Emilia....

     Jamaica Sandra Foster 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...

     Japan Junko Tsuda Tokyo
    Tokyo
    , ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

     Kenya N'kirote Karimi M'mbijjiwe Nairobi
    Nairobi
    Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi County. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters". However, it is popularly known as the "Green City in the Sun" and is...

    ' Kim Tae-hwa Pusan
    Busan
    Busan , formerly spelled Pusan is South Korea's second largest metropolis after Seoul, with a population of around 3.6 million. The Metropolitan area population is 4,399,515 as of 2010. It is the largest port city in South Korea and the fifth largest port in the world...

     Latvia Inese Šlesere
    Inese Šlesere
    Inese Šlesere is a Latvian politician and former model and beauty queen. She was a contestant in Miss World 1991. She is currently a Deputy of the 9th Saeima for the Latvia's First Party.-References:...

     
    Riga
    Riga
    Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...

     Lebanon Diana Begdache Beirut
    Beirut
    Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...

     Macau Cristina Guilherme Lam Macau
    Macau
    Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...

     Malaysia Samantha Schubert Kuala Lumpur
    Kuala Lumpur
    Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...

     Malta Romina Genuis Gzira
    Gzira
    Gżira is a town in the north-eastern coast of Malta between Msida & Sliema, and bordering on Ta' Xbiex, with its famed yacht marina and Embassy Row. The population is approximately 7,100 . The word Gżira means "island" in Maltese, and the town is named after Manoel Island which lies just adjacent...

     Mauritius Marie Geraldine Deville Central Flacq
    Centre de Flacq
    Centre de Flacq is a town and the capital of the district of Flacq in east-central Mauritius. It is located at an altitude of 154 feet . Flacq is connected to the road that links with the capital city of Port Louis and provides access to the coastal road...

      Mexico
    Miss Mexico
    Miss Mexico may refer to:*Nuestra Belleza México , beauty pageant that chooses Mexico's representatives to Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss International, among others....

    Maria Cristina Urrutia de la Vega Mexico City
    Mexico City
    Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

      Namibia
    Namibia
    Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...

    Michelle McLean
    Michelle McLean
    Michelle McLean was crowned Miss Universe in 1992. She was19 years old when she represented Namibia and became the first and only woman from Namibia to win the crown.-Miss World:...

     
    Windhoek
    Windhoek
    Windhoek is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level. The 2001 census determined Windhoek's population was 233,529...

      New Zealand
    New Zealand at Miss World
    New Zealand has contested 46 Miss World pageants since that pageant's inception in 1951. No New Zealander has won the Miss World title, although two have placed first runner-up....

    Lisa Maree de Montalk Taupo
    Taupo
    Taupo is a town on the shore of Lake Taupo in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand. It is the seat of the Taupo District Council and lies in the southern Waikato Region....

     Nigeria Adenike Oshinowo
    Nike Oshinowo
    Nike Oshinowo-Soleye is a Nigerian businesswoman, socialite, and pageant director.Oshinowo was raised in Ibadan and England, where she attended boarding school. Although she had intended to become an air hostess or a doctor, she studied Politics at the University of Essex...

     
    Lagos
    Lagos
    Lagos is a port and the most populous conurbation in Nigeria. With a population of 7,937,932, it is currently the third most populous city in Africa after Cairo and Kinshasa, and currently estimated to be the second fastest growing city in Africa...

      Norway
    Miss Norway
    Miss Norway is the name used to identify Norway's representatives to international beauty pageants.-History:Currently, Norway has two national beauty pageants:...

    Anne-Britt Røvik Kolbotn
    Kolbotn
    Kolbotn is the centre of Oppegård, Norway. The population is about 6,000.Kolbotn has several elementary schools, four middle schools and a high school.The Norwegian black metal band Darkthrone formed there in 1986....

     Panama Malena Estela Betancourt Guillen Panama City
    Panama City
    Panama is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a population of 880,691, with a total metro population of 1,272,672, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of the same name. The city is the political and administrative center of the...

     Paraguay Vivian Rosanna Benitez Brizuela Asuncion
    Asunción
    Asunción is the capital and largest city of Paraguay.The "Ciudad de Asunción" is an autonomous capital district not part of any department. The metropolitan area, called Gran Asunción, includes the cities of San Lorenzo, Fernando de la Mora, Lambaré, Luque, Mariano Roque Alonso, Ñemby, San...

      Philippines
    Binibining Pilipinas
    Binibining Pilipinas is the organization responsible for sponsoring the annual national beauty pageant which selects representatives of the Philippines to Miss Universe and Miss International, among others.-History:...

    Gemith Gonzalo Gemparo Manila
    Manila
    Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...

     Poland Karina Wojciechowska Katowice
    Katowice
    Katowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers . Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.It is the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2...

     Portugal Maria do Carmo Ramalho Lisbon
    Lisbon
    Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...

      Puerto Rico
    Miss Puerto Rico
    Miss Puerto Rico is the common name or sash used to identify a Puerto Rican representative in an international pageant. Currently, Miss Universe Puerto Rico, Miss Mundo de Puerto Rico and Miss Earth Puerto Rico are the official national preliminaries to the Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss Earth...

    Johanna Berenice Irizarry Lajas
    Lajas
    Lajas may refer to:*Lajas, Cuba *Lajas, Puerto RicoSee also*Special:Allpages/Lajas...

     Kingdom of Romania Gabriela Dragomirescu Bucharest
    Bucharest
    Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

     Singapore Jasheen Jayakody 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...

     South Africa Diana Tilden-Davis Johannesburg
    Johannesburg
    Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...

     Spain Candelaria (Catia) Moreno Navarro 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...

     Sri Lanka Jackie Emelda Bennett Manzini
     Sweden Cathrin Olsson Kungsbacka
    Kungsbacka
    Kungsbacka is a locality and the seat of Kungsbacka Municipality in Halland County, Sweden, with 17,784 inhabitants in 2005.It is one of the most affluent parts of Sweden, in part due to its simultaneous proximity to stunning countryside and the large city of Gothenburg..-History:The first records...

     Switzerland Sandra Aegerter Aigle
    Aigle
    Aigle is the capital of the district of Aigle in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The town has a population of 8,100 people.The name of this municipality in French means eagle.-Geography:...

     Thailand Rewaedee Malaisee Bangkok
    Bangkok
    Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...

    ' Sastee Bachan Port of Spain
    Port of Spain
    Port of Spain, also written as Port-of-Spain, is the capital of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the country's third-largest municipality, after San Fernando and Chaguanas. The city has a municipal population of 49,031 , a metropolitan population of 128,026 and a transient daily population...

     Turkey Dilek Aslihan Koruyan Istanbul
    Istanbul
    Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

      United Kingdom Joanne Elizabeth Lewis Nottingham
    Nottingham
    Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...

      United States
    Miss USA
    The Miss USA beauty contest has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA...

    Charlotte Ray
    Charlotte Ray
    Charlotte Ray is a beauty queen from Camden, New Jersey who competed in the Miss USA and Miss World pageants.-Miss USA:Ray won the title of Miss New Jersey USA 1991 in August 1990, the first time she entered the pageant. She went on to represent New Jersey in the 1991 Miss USA pageant, which was...

     
    Camden
    Camden, New Jersey
    The city of Camden is the county seat of Camden County, New Jersey. It is located across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 77,344...

     Uruguay Andrea Regina Gorrochategui Granja 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...

      Venezuela
    Miss Venezuela
    The Miss Venezuela contest is the national beauty pageant of Venezuela and has been held since 1952. It is responsible for selecting the country's representatives to the Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss Earth and Miss International pageants .Under the direction of Osmel Sousa, Venezuela has...

    Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jimenez
    Ninibeth Leal
    Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiménez is a model, businessperson and fourth Miss World titleholder from Venezuela.-Miss World:...

    Maracaibo
    Maracaibo
    Maracaibo is a city and municipality located in northwestern Venezuela off the western coast of the Lake Maracaibo. It is the second-largest city in the country after the national capital Caracas and the capital of Zulia state...

     Kingdom of Yugoslavia Slavica Tripunović Vukovar
    Vukovar
    Vukovar is a city in eastern Croatia, and the biggest river port in Croatia located at the confluence of the Vuka river and the Danube. Vukovar is the center of the Vukovar-Syrmia County...


    Returning countries and Debuts

    • Greenland competed in Miss World for the first time.
    • South Africa last competed in 1977
      Miss World 1977
      The 27th Miss World Pageant was held on November 17, 1977 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Mary Ann Catrin Stävin from Sweden...

       after the MWO decided to lift a 14-year apartheid rule, allowing its contestants to compete.
    • Antigua last competed in 1986
      Miss World 1986
      The 36th Miss World Pageant was held on November 13, 1986 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Giselle Jeanne-Marie Laronde from Trinidad & Tobago. Runner up was Pia Rosenberg Larsen representing Denmark and third was Chantal Schreiber from Austria.-Placements:-Order of...

      .
    • Lebanon, and Swaziland last competed in 1988
      Miss World 1988
      The 38th Miss World Pageant was held on November 17, 1988 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Linda Pétursdóttir from Iceland. Runner up was Yeon-hee Choi representing Korea and third was Kirsty Roper from the United Kingdom...

      .
    • Republic of China, Ecuador, and Malaysia last competed in 1989
      Miss World 1989
      The 39th Miss World marked the very first staging of the Miss World pageant in a foreign location. The pageant was held at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. 78 contestants took part in the pageant...

      .

    Withdrawals and Nations not competing

    • Canada, Tara Paat withdrew from Miss World 1991 14 days before the pageant due to her illness.
    • Cook Islands, Luxembourg, and Papua New Guinea were no longer to send their respective delegates in Miss World. Luxembourg did not send delegates to Miss World until it returned in 2009.
    • Peru did not compete in Miss World because of problems with franchise-holding and lack of sponsorship. Hong Kong, on the other hand, renewed its franchise with the Miss Hong Kong Organization; however it was happened nearly three months after Miss World.
    • Sri Lanka did not compete in Miss World because of scheduling conflict.
    • U.S.S.R. did not compete in Miss World because of its dissolution, as a result of dividing into 15 independent states which came to be known as the Commonwealth of Independent States.

    Other Notes

    • Miss World 1991 was scheduled to be held in the Dominican Republic. Due to scheduling difficulties, Miss World was first moved to Puerto Rico, then to Atlanta, USA.
    • Preliminary swimsuits in Miss World 1991 were held in South Africa.
    • South Africa returned to Miss World after a 14-year post-apartheid rule, and was the first time to crown as Queen of Africa. Diana Tilden-Davis was later attacked by a hippopotamus in Botswana in December 2003, and suffered bruises and long-term injuries. She was recovered from injuries three years later in 2006.
    • This was also the first time that no European country made into the finals for crowning.
    • France, Mareva Georges, represented her country in Miss World although she came from the island of Tahiti.
    • Trinidad & Tobago, Sastee Bachan, currently works as a trained make-up artist who lives in Toronto, and as a fashion & pageant consultant for Miss World Canada.
    • Singapore, Jasheen Jayakody, currently lives in San Francisco, California with her American husband and one child.
    • Turkey, Dilek Aslihan Koruyan, is currently the wife of Turkish businessman and entrepreneur, Demir Sabanci
      Demir Sabanci
      Demir Sabancı , a member of the Sabancı family in third generation, is a Turkish businessman and entrepreneur.He was born in year 1971 as the son of Özdemir Sabancı, who was murdered by a terrorist attack in 1996 in the building of headquarters of Sabancı Holding in İstanbul, Turkey...

      .
    • Australia, Leanne Buckle (now Mrs. Frew), currently works as a photographer and a model, and lives with her husband and three children.
    • Malaysia, Samantha Schubert was born in England, and raise in Malaysia since childhood. She is currently an actrss and a model, after she studied at the Lee Strasburg School of Film & Theatre Los Angeles, The Beverly Hills Playhouse Los Angeles and Drama Studio London.
    • Germany, Susanne Petry would go on and win Miss Intercontinental 1992.
    • USA, Charlotte Ray
      Charlotte Ray
      Charlotte Ray is a beauty queen from Camden, New Jersey who competed in the Miss USA and Miss World pageants.-Miss USA:Ray won the title of Miss New Jersey USA 1991 in August 1990, the first time she entered the pageant. She went on to represent New Jersey in the 1991 Miss USA pageant, which was...

       was also Miss New Jersey USA
      Miss New Jersey USA
      The Miss New Jersey USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of New Jersey in the Miss USA pageant.New Jersey has had only moderate success at Miss USA, and has never produced a winner. New Jersey's best streak was from 1989 to 1991 when they had two 2nd...

       1991 and competed at Miss USA 1991
      Miss USA 1991
      Miss USA 1991, the 40th Miss USA pageant, was televised live from the Century II Convention Center in Wichita, Kansas on 22 February 1991.At the conclusion of the final competition, Kelli McCarty of Kansas was crowned by outgoing titleholder Carole Gist of Michigan...

      . She finished 1st runner up in the pageant and was also named Miss Congeniality.
    • Half the number of countries which made it into the semifinals, were not in the semifinals last year: South Africa (1975), India (1980), France (1987), and Australia (1989). Namibia had made into the semi-finals for the first time after its debut in 1989.
    • Namibia, Michelle McLean was crowned Miss Universe in 1992.

    Miss Universe

    • Miss Universe 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....

      : El Salvador, and Jamaica (semi-finalist)
    • Miss Universe 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...

      : Belize, France (semi-finalist), Paraguay (semi-finalist)
    • Miss Universe 1992
      Miss Universe 1992
      Miss Universe 1992, the 41st Miss Universe pageant, was held at Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, Bangkok, Thailand on May 8, 1992. 78 international beauties competed for the Miss Universe crown....

      : Belgium (finalist), Cayman Islands, Iceland, Namibia (WINNER), New Zealand (semi-finalist), and Switzerland
    • Miss Universe 1993
      Miss Universe 1993
      Miss Universe 1993, the 42nd Miss Universe pageant, was held at Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico on May 21, 1993. Dayanara Torres of Puerto Rico was crowned as Miss Universe 1993...

      : Ghana (Miss Amity)

    Miss International

    • Miss International 1991
      Miss International 1991
      Miss International 1991 was held at Tokyo, Japan on October 13, 1991. Agnieszka Kotlarska earned Poland's first Miss International crown.-Results:- Special awards:*Friendship: ', Norma Jean Cepeda*Photogenic: ', Melissa Vargas...

      : Costa Rica
    • Miss International 1992
      Miss International 1992
      Miss International 1992 was held at Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan on October 19, 1992. Kirsten Davidson earned Australia's third Miss International crown.-Results:- Special awards:*Friendship: ', Tomoko Nishiki...

      : United Kingdom
    • Miss International 1994
      Miss International 1994
      Miss International 1994 was held at Sun Arena, Ise, Mie, Japan on September 4, 1994. Christina Lekka earned Greece's first Miss International crown.-Placements:- Special awards:-External links:*...

      : Ghana (represented as Nigeria)

    Contestants Preliminary Scores

    Country Score Country Score
    American Virgin Islands 34 Ireland 34
    Antigua 33 Israel 32
    Argentina 34 Italy 39
    Aruba 32 Jamaica 49
    Australia 48 Japan 33
    Austria 32 Kenya 34
    Bahamas 32 Korea 32
    Belgium 41 Latvia 33
    Belize 32 Lebanon 32
    Bolivia 33 Macau 32
    Brazil 38 Malaysia 38
    British Virgin Islands 33 Malta 32
    Bulgaria 33 Mauritius 32
    Cayman Islands 34 Mexico 32
    Chile 37 Namibia 51
    Republic of China 33 New Zealand 41
    Colombia 40 Nigeria 37
    Costa Rica 32 Norway 33
    Curaçao 38 Panama 35
    Cyprus 34 Paraguay 36
    Czechoslovakia 32 Philippines 38
    Denmark 33 Poland 33
    Dominican Republic 33 Portugal 34
    Ecuador 32 Puerto Rico 34
    El Salvador 32 Romania 32
    Finland 35 Singapore 35
    France 46 South Africa 51
    Germany 40 Spain 38
    Ghana 32 Swaziland 32
    Gibraltar 37 Sweden 34
    Greece 38 Switzerland 38
    Greenland 33 Thailand 33
    Guam 32 Trinidad & Tobago 35
    Guatemala 32 Turkey 47
    Holland 39 United Kingdom 40
    Honduras 32 Uruguay 35
    Hungary 32 USA 42
    Iceland 37 Venezuela 58
    India 44 Yugoslavia 33

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