Miss World 2010
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Miss World 2010, the 60th 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 October 30, 2010, in Sanya
Sanya
Sanya is the southernmost city in China and is a part of Hainan Province. In 2006, it had a population of 536,000, making it, after the provincial capital , the second most populous city on the island. The city is renowned for its tropical climate and has emerged as a popular tourist destination,...

, People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

; after Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

 backed out of the hosting contract. Kaiane Aldorino
Kaiane Aldorino
Kaiane Aldorino, GMH is a Gibraltarian beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Gibraltar 2009 and Miss World the same year in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was the first Miss Gibraltar ever to reach the semifinals of the Miss World beauty pageant.-Personal life:Aldorino was born in...

 of 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...

 crowned her successor Alexandria Mills
Alexandria Mills
Alexandria Mills is a beauty pageant titleholder from the United States who was crowned Miss World 2010 on October 30, 2010 in Sanya, China...

 of the United States as Miss World 2010.

Vietnam backed out

On June 8, 2009, Mr.Hoang Kieu (RAAS Group Chairman) and Mrs. Morley publicly agreed on Nha Trang
Nha Trang
Nha Trang is a coastal city and capital of Khanh Hoa province, on the South Central Coast of Vietnam. It is bounded on the North by Ninh Hoà district, on the East by the South China Sea, on the South by Cam Ranh town and on the West by Diên Khánh district...

 as host for Miss World 2010.

According to a manager of the Tien Giang Tourism JS Company, RAAS bought 31 hectares in total to build a tourism site for Miss World 2010, which lead to a public debate about some national ecological reserves being devastated and people having to leave their homes due to increasing living costs.

On January 28, 2010, RAAS told Khanh Hoa People's Committee office to announce that they were no longer organizing the event without an official explanation on the debate. Khanh Hoa Province then decided to host Miss World with new sponsors. RAAS would return as the main sponsor if another province was assigned as host.

Finally on April 2, 2010, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan
Nguyen Thien Nhan
Nguyễn Thiện Nhân , is a Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam and Minister of Education and Training of Vietnam. He had been the 1st vice mayor of Ho Chi Minh City before being appointed Minister of Education on June 28, 2006, by Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng...

 approved a proposal by the host province Khanh Hoa to back out of hosting Miss World.

Although Miss World 2010 was held in Sanya
Sanya
Sanya is the southernmost city in China and is a part of Hainan Province. In 2006, it had a population of 536,000, making it, after the provincial capital , the second most populous city on the island. The city is renowned for its tropical climate and has emerged as a popular tourist destination,...

, China, RAAS Group was still in charge of the financial backing for the event. RAAS confirmed that Miss World would be back to Mỹ Tho, Tien Giang Province later in 2011 or 2012. However, according to many reliable newswire such as VnExpress
VnExpress
VnExpress is a Vietnamese online newspaper, run by FPT Corporation. It has the highest ranking among other e-newspapers in Vietnam on Alexa.com, number 4, only after Yahoo!, Google, and Google Vietnam....

, there is no way for Miss World being organized in Tien Giang Province in 2011 or 2012 under the umbrella of RAAS because Mr. Hoang Kieu owed the landlords in the province, involved in the tourism project millions of dollars ,

Placements

Final result Contestant
Miss World 2010
  • - Alexandria Mills
    Alexandria Mills
    Alexandria Mills is a beauty pageant titleholder from the United States who was crowned Miss World 2010 on October 30, 2010 in Sanya, China...

1st Runner-up
  • - Emma Wareus
    Emma Wareus
    Emma Wareus is a beauty queen from Botswana who placed first runner-up to Miss World 2010 on October 30, 2010 in Sanya, China. This is the highest placement for a woman from her country in the history of the pageant...

  • 2nd Runner-up
  • - Adriana Vasini
    Adriana Vasini
    Adriana Cristina Vasini Sánchez, is a Venezuelan beauty queen and fashion model who won the titles of Miss World Venezuela 2009 and Reina Hispanoamericana 2009...

  • Top 5
  • ' - Tang Xiao
  • - Emma Britt Waldron
  • Top 7
  • - Giada Pezzaioli
  • - Mariann Birkedal
    Mariann Birkedal
    -External links:*...

  • Top 25
  • - Braneka Bassett
  • - Denise Garrido
  • - Laura Palacio
  • - Virginie Dechenaud
    Virginie Dechenaud
    Virginie Dechenaud is a French beauty pageant winner who represented Rhône-Alpes and placed first runner-up to Miss France 2010.-Miss France:...

  • - Mihilani Teixeira
  • - Susanna Kobylinski
  • - Natasha Metto
  • - Sarnai Amar
  • - Odile Gertze
    Odile Gertze
    - External links :*...

  • - Desirée van den Berg
  •  Northern Ireland - Lori Moore
    Lori Moore (beauty queen)
    Lori Moore is a student from Belfast, Northern Ireland who was crowned Miss Northern Ireland 2010. She will represent the country at Miss World 2010. Lori is the first woman of black heritage to be crowned Miss Northern Ireland. Moore will represent the United Kingdom in Miss International...

  • - Egni Eckert
    Egni Eckert
    Egni Analia Almirón Eckert, simply known as Egni Eckert or Egny Eckert, is a model and beauty queen contestant from Paraguay who represented her country in the Miss World 2010 pageant held in Sanya, China, placing among the Top 25 finalists....

  • - Yara Lasanta
    Yara Lasanta
    Yara Liz Lasanta Santiago is a beauty queen from Puerto Rico who participated in Miss World 2010.-Early life:...

  • - Irina Sharipova
    Irina Sharipova
    Irina Sharipova is a beauty pageant winner who was Miss Tatarstan 2010 and first runner-up in Miss Russia 2010.Sharipova represented Russia in Miss World 2010 on October 30, 2010 in Sanya, People's Republic of China, and made the top 25.-Beauty pageants:At the national contest for "Miss...

  • ' - Aiasha Gustave
  • - Nicola Mimnagh
    Nicola Mimnagh
    Nicola Mimnagh is Scottish beauty queen who was crowned Miss Scotland 2010 and also Miss United Kingdom 2010.-Miss Scotland:At George Square in Glasgow on 19 June 2010, Mimnagh was crowned Miss Scotland by outgoing 2009 titleholder Katharine Brown...

  • - 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:...

  • - Yuwaret Sirirat Rueangsri
    Sirirat Rueangsri
    Yuwaret Sirirat Rueangsri , nicknamed Noo-si is Miss Thailand World 2010. She was crowned Miss Thailand World 2010 on August 14, 2010 by Pongchanok Kanklab, Miss Thailand World 2009....


  • Continental Queens

    Continental Contestant
    Africa
    • - Emma Wareus
      Emma Wareus
      Emma Wareus is a beauty queen from Botswana who placed first runner-up to Miss World 2010 on October 30, 2010 in Sanya, China. This is the highest placement for a woman from her country in the history of the pageant...

    Americas
  • - Alexandria Mills
    Alexandria Mills
    Alexandria Mills is a beauty pageant titleholder from the United States who was crowned Miss World 2010 on October 30, 2010 in Sanya, China...

  • Asia & Pacific
  • ' - Tang Xiao
  • Caribbean
  • ' - Aiasha Gustave
  • Europe
  • - Emma Britt Waldron

  • Beach Beauty

    Miss World Beach Beauty
    Miss World Beach Beauty
    Miss World Beach Beauty is a swimsuit or fast track competition in the Miss World pageant. The Beach Beauty event first started in 2003, when the Miss World Organization decided to have preliminary or fast track events to automatically give a semifinal spot to some of the delegates...

    was held at Mandarin Oriental, Sanya on October 19, 2010.
    Final result Contestant
    Winner
    • - Yara Lasanta
      Yara Lasanta
      Yara Liz Lasanta Santiago is a beauty queen from Puerto Rico who participated in Miss World 2010.-Early life:...

    1st Runner-up
  • - Alexandria Mills
    Alexandria Mills
    Alexandria Mills is a beauty pageant titleholder from the United States who was crowned Miss World 2010 on October 30, 2010 in Sanya, China...

  • 2nd Runner-up
  • - Mariann Birkedal
    Mariann Birkedal
    -External links:*...

  • 3rd Runner-up
  • ' - Tang Xiao
  • 4th Runner-up
  • - Mihilani Teixeira
  • Top 20
  • - Ashleigh Francis
  • ' - Snežana Prorok
    Snežana Prorok
    Snežana Prorok is a Bosnia and Herzegovina beauty pageant contestant from Istočna Ilidža, City of East Sarajevo, who won Miss Bosnia and Herzegovina 2010 title and previously won title Miss Republika Srpska 2010....

  • - Emma Wareus
    Emma Wareus
    Emma Wareus is a beauty queen from Botswana who placed first runner-up to Miss World 2010 on October 30, 2010 in Sanya, China. This is the highest placement for a woman from her country in the history of the pageant...

  • - Veronika Machová
    Veronika Machová
    Veronika Machová is a Czech beauty pageant contestant from Rokycany who won Czech Miss World 2010 on Saturday 20 March 2010. She is student of Pedagogical Faculty, Charles UniversityShe competed in Miss World 2010 in China.-References:...

  • - Virginie Dechenaud
    Virginie Dechenaud
    Virginie Dechenaud is a French beauty pageant winner who represented Rhône-Alpes and placed first runner-up to Miss France 2010.-Miss France:...

  • - Mimi Areme
  • - Jennifer Kalo
  • - Manasvi Mamgai
    Manasvi Mamgai
    Manasvi Mamgai is a well known Indian model who was crowned Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2010 on April 30, 2010. She also won Miss Tourism International held in Malaysia on December 31, 2008 and Elite Model Look, India in 2006...

  • - Shavit Vizel
  •  Martinique - Tully Fremcourt
  • - Desirée van den Berg
  • - Egni Eckert
    Egni Eckert
    Egni Analia Almirón Eckert, simply known as Egni Eckert or Egny Eckert, is a model and beauty queen contestant from Paraguay who represented her country in the Miss World 2010 pageant held in Sanya, China, placing among the Top 25 finalists....

  • - Nicola Mimnagh
    Nicola Mimnagh
    Nicola Mimnagh is Scottish beauty queen who was crowned Miss Scotland 2010 and also Miss United Kingdom 2010.-Miss Scotland:At George Square in Glasgow on 19 June 2010, Mimnagh was crowned Miss Scotland by outgoing 2009 titleholder Katharine Brown...

  • - Yuwaret Sirirat Rueangsri
    Sirirat Rueangsri
    Yuwaret Sirirat Rueangsri , nicknamed Noo-si is Miss Thailand World 2010. She was crowned Miss Thailand World 2010 on August 14, 2010 by Pongchanok Kanklab, Miss Thailand World 2009....

  • - Samantha Tshuma
  • Top 40
  • - Mariana Arambarry
  • - Braneka Bassett
  • - Danielle Bishop
  • - María Teresa Roca
  • - Joceline Fortes
  • - Cristin Alexander
  •  Guadeloupe - Ericka Aly
  •  Hong Kong - Cheung Sau-Man
  • - Giada Pezzaioli
  • - Gritė Maruškevičiūtė
    Gritė Maruškevičiūtė
    Gritė Maruškevičiūtė is Miss Lithuania 2010. She represented Lithuania in Miss World 2010 on October and she reached top 40 at beach beauty event....

  • - Shari Thuyns
  • - Daria Zaiteva
  • - Sarnai Amar
  • - Cody Yerkovich
  • - Irina Sharipova
    Irina Sharipova
    Irina Sharipova is a beauty pageant winner who was Miss Tatarstan 2010 and first runner-up in Miss Russia 2010.Sharipova represented Russia in Miss World 2010 on October 30, 2010 in Sanya, People's Republic of China, and made the top 25.-Beauty pageants:At the national contest for "Miss...

  • ' - Aiasha Gustave
  • - Fallon Ranasinghe
  • ' - Davia Chambers
  • - 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...

  • - Kateryna Zakharchenko

  • Sports

    Miss World Sports
    Miss World Sports
    Miss World Sports or Sportswoman is a title and award given to the winner of a sports event at Miss World. It is a fast track or preliminary event, giving the winner automatically makes it into the semifinals. So far there are 5 Miss World Sports winners starting at 2003...

    was held at Sheraton Sanya Resort
    Sheraton Hotels and Resorts
    Sheraton Hotels and Resorts is Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide's largest and second oldest brand . Starwood's headquarters are in White Plains, New York.-Sheraton history:...

     on October 22, 2010.
    Final result Contestant
    Winner
    •  Northern Ireland - Lori Moore
      Lori Moore (beauty queen)
      Lori Moore is a student from Belfast, Northern Ireland who was crowned Miss Northern Ireland 2010. She will represent the country at Miss World 2010. Lori is the first woman of black heritage to be crowned Miss Northern Ireland. Moore will represent the United Kingdom in Miss International...

    1st Runner-up
  • - Marína Georgievová
    Marína Georgievová
    Marína Georgievová is a beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Slovensko 2010 titles.She represented Slovakia in Miss World 2010 at Sanya, People's Republic of China on October 30, 2010.- References :...

  • 2nd Runner-up
  • - Mariann Birkedal
    Mariann Birkedal
    -External links:*...

  • Top 20
  • - Ashleigh Francis
  • - Emma Wareus
    Emma Wareus
    Emma Wareus is a beauty queen from Botswana who placed first runner-up to Miss World 2010 on October 30, 2010 in Sanya, China. This is the highest placement for a woman from her country in the history of the pageant...

  • - Kamilla Salgado
  • - Denise Garrido
  • - Cristin Alexander
  • - Anne-Marie Nurminen
  • - Aletha Shepherd
  • - Jennifer Kalo
  • - Fanney Ingvarsdóttir
  • - Emma Britt Waldron
  •  Martinique - Tully Fremcourt
  • - Sarnai Amar
  • - Egni Eckert
    Egni Eckert
    Egni Analia Almirón Eckert, simply known as Egni Eckert or Egny Eckert, is a model and beauty queen contestant from Paraguay who represented her country in the Miss World 2010 pageant held in Sanya, China, placing among the Top 25 finalists....

  • ' - Fatisha Imo
    Fatisha Imo
    Fatisha Anita Imo is a student of Accounting and Spanish at Midwestern State University, who was crowned Miss World Saint Kitts and Nevis 2010. She will represent the country at Miss World 2010....

  • - 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...

  • - Carolyn Carter-Heller
  • - Courtenay Hamilton

  • Top Model

    Miss World Top Model
    Miss World Top Model
    The Miss World Top Model is a modeling fast track competition at the Miss World Pageant. The competition was first held in 2004, but not in 2005-2006. It's been held from 2007 onwards. The winner of the competition automatically makes it into the semifinals....

    was held at Crowne Plaza Sanya
    Crowne Plaza
    Crowne Plaza is a chain of full service, upscale hotels catering to business travelers and to the meetings and conventions market. It forms part of the InterContinental Hotels Group family of brands, which include InterContinental and Holiday Inn and operates in 52 countries, usually located in...

     on October 23, 2010.
    Final result Contestant
    Winner
    1st Runner-up
  • - Irina Sharipova
    Irina Sharipova
    Irina Sharipova is a beauty pageant winner who was Miss Tatarstan 2010 and first runner-up in Miss Russia 2010.Sharipova represented Russia in Miss World 2010 on October 30, 2010 in Sanya, People's Republic of China, and made the top 25.-Beauty pageants:At the national contest for "Miss...

  • 2nd Runner-up
  • - Alexandria Mills
    Alexandria Mills
    Alexandria Mills is a beauty pageant titleholder from the United States who was crowned Miss World 2010 on October 30, 2010 in Sanya, China...

  • Top 20
  • - Mariana Arambarry
  • - 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...

  • - Emma Wareus
    Emma Wareus
    Emma Wareus is a beauty queen from Botswana who placed first runner-up to Miss World 2010 on October 30, 2010 in Sanya, China. This is the highest placement for a woman from her country in the history of the pageant...

  • ' - Tang Xiao
  • - Hiwot Assefa Tesfaye
  • - Mihilani Teixeira
  • - Mimi Areme
    Mimi Areme
    Mimi Areme, was born on September 28th 1988 in Volta Region, Ghana which crowned as a beauty pageants winner "Miss Ghana 2009". Later she competed to the Miss World 2010 in Sanya, People's Republic Of China on October 30th.-Early Life:...

  • - Manasvi Mamgai
    Manasvi Mamgai
    Manasvi Mamgai is a well known Indian model who was crowned Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2010 on April 30, 2010. She also won Miss Tourism International held in Malaysia on December 31, 2008 and Elite Model Look, India in 2006...

  • ' - Aiasha Gustave
  • - Marína Georgievová
    Marína Georgievová
    Marína Georgievová is a beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Slovensko 2010 titles.She represented Slovakia in Miss World 2010 at Sanya, People's Republic of China on October 30, 2010.- References :...

  • - 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:...

  • - Fátima Jiménez
  • - Dani Karlsson
    Dani Karlsson
    Dani Karlsson is a Swedish beauty pageant titleholder and model who won Miss World Sweden 2010 and represented Sweden at Miss World 2010 on October 30 in China. Karlsson was called in the same day as the pageant finale as one of the other contestant decided to back out of the pageant...

  • - Yuwaret Sirirat Rueangsri
    Sirirat Rueangsri
    Yuwaret Sirirat Rueangsri , nicknamed Noo-si is Miss Thailand World 2010. She was crowned Miss Thailand World 2010 on August 14, 2010 by Pongchanok Kanklab, Miss Thailand World 2009....

  • - Kateryna Zakharchenko
  • - Adriana Vasini
    Adriana Vasini
    Adriana Cristina Vasini Sánchez, is a Venezuelan beauty queen and fashion model who won the titles of Miss World Venezuela 2009 and Reina Hispanoamericana 2009...

  • - Samantha Tshuma

  • Talent

    Miss World Talent
    Miss World Talent
    Miss World Talent is a talent or fast track competition in the Miss World pageant, in which a number of contestants show their abilities in singing, dancing, poetry, etc. Introduced in Miss World 2001, the winner of the event automatically makes it into the semifinals starting 2003.-Miss World...

    was held at Crowne Plaza Sanya
    Crowne Plaza
    Crowne Plaza is a chain of full service, upscale hotels catering to business travelers and to the meetings and conventions market. It forms part of the InterContinental Hotels Group family of brands, which include InterContinental and Holiday Inn and operates in 52 countries, usually located in...

     on October 26, 2010.
    Final result Contestant
    Winner
    • - Emma Britt Waldron
    1st Runner-up
  • - Courtenay Hamilton
  • 2nd Runner-up
  •  Guadeloupe - Ericka Aly
  • Top 10
  • - Ashleigh Francis
  • - Lyudmila Yakimovich
  • - Denise Garrido
  • - Andrea Kkolou
  • ' - Kim Hye-young
  • - Francesca Gaspar
  • ' - Aiasha Gustave
  • - Adriana Vasini
    Adriana Vasini
    Adriana Cristina Vasini Sánchez, is a Venezuelan beauty queen and fashion model who won the titles of Miss World Venezuela 2009 and Reina Hispanoamericana 2009...

  • Top 20
  • - Kimberly Kuiperi
  • - Romina Andonova
  • - Ana Galarza
    Ana Galarza
    Ana Mercedes Galarza Añazco is a beauty pageant titleholder who competed the Miss Ecuador 2010, and placed first runner-up.- Miss Ecuador 2010 :...

  • - Anne-Marie Nurminen
  • - Larissa Dalli
  • - Ludmila Voroncova
  • ' - Stefani Borsova
  •  Martinique - Tully Fremcourt
  • - Odile Gertze
    Odile Gertze
    - External links :*...

  • ' - Fatisha Imo
    Fatisha Imo
    Fatisha Anita Imo is a student of Accounting and Spanish at Midwestern State University, who was crowned Miss World Saint Kitts and Nevis 2010. She will represent the country at Miss World 2010....


  • Beauty with a Purpose

    Beauty with a Purpose was held on October 30, 2010.
    Final result Contestant
    Winner
    • - Natasha Metto
    1st Runner-up
  • - Mimi Areme
    Mimi Areme
    Mimi Areme, was born on September 28th 1988 in Volta Region, Ghana which crowned as a beauty pageants winner "Miss Ghana 2009". Later she competed to the Miss World 2010 in Sanya, People's Republic Of China on October 30th.-Early Life:...

  • 2nd Runner-up
  • - Gabriela Molina

  • Best World Dress Designer

    Miss World Dress Designer took place on October 23, 2010. The event was held together with the Top Model Final.
    Final result Contestant
    Winner
    • - Mihilani Teixeira

    Judges

    These are the judges for Miss World 2010:
    • Julia Morley - Miss World Limited Chairman and Chairman of the Judges
    • Denise Perrier
      Denise Perrier
      Denise Perrier is a French model and actress. She now goes by "Denise Perrier Lanfranchi."Perrier was the third person to be chosen as Miss World in 1953, representing France; the same year that France also won the Miss Universe pageant by Christiane Martel.Perrier has done little acting...

       – Miss World 1953
      Miss World 1953
      Miss World 1953, the third annual Miss World pageant, was held on October 19, 1953 at Lyceum Theatre, London, United Kingdom. 15 contestants competed for the Miss World title...

    • Ann Sidney – Miss World 1964
      Miss World 1964
      Miss World 1964, the 14th Miss World pageant, was won by Ann Sidney of United Kingdom. It took place on November 12, 1964 at the Lyceum Theatre in London, UK.-Results:-Contestants:*' - Ana Maria Soria*' - Regina Croes...

    • Mary Stävin
      Mary Stavin
      Mary Ann-Catrin Stävin is a Swedish actress, model, and a former Miss World. She was born in Örebro, Sweden. She returned to judge the Miss World contest in 1980 and 2010.-Acting career:...

       – Miss World 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...

    • Agbani Darego
      Agbani Darego
      Agbani Darego is a Nigerian model, best known as the first Sub-Saharan African Miss World.-Early life:...

       – Miss World 2001
      Miss World 2001
      Miss World 2001, the 51st Miss World pageant was held at the Super Bowl, in Sun City Entertainment Centre, Sun City, South Africa on November 16, 2001. Agbani Darego from Nigeria won the pageant, she became the first black African to win the Miss World crown...

    • Maria Julia Mantilla
      María Julia Mantilla
      María Julia “Maju” Mantilla García is a Peruvian beauty queen who became the second woman from Peru to be crowned Miss World.-Early life:...

       – Miss World 2004
      Miss World 2004
      Miss World 2004, the 54th Miss World pageant was held at the Crown of Beauty Theatre, Sanya, People's Republic of China on December 6, 2004. The 2004 pageant marks the second straight year that Sanya played host of the pageant. Miss World 2003, Rosanna Davison of Ireland crowned her successor María...

    • Zhang Zilin
      Zhang Zilin
      Zhang Zilin is a beauty queen and fashion model who won Miss China World in 2007 and was crowned Miss World 2007, representing the People's Republic of China. She is the first Miss World of East Asian origin.-Biography:...

       – 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...

    • Ksenia Sukhinova
      Ksenia Sukhinova
      Ksenia Vladimirovna Sukhinova is a Russian beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Russia 2007 and Miss World 2008. She also appeared in all of the postcards that introduced every participating song in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest.- Personal :...

       – Miss World 2008
      Miss World 2008
      Miss World 2008, the 58th Miss World pageant was held at Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa on December 13, 2008. Originally, the pageant was going to take place in Kiev, Ukraine, but because of the ongoing crisis between Georgia and Russia in neighboring South Ossetia, the...

    • Krish Naidoo - Miss World International Ambassador
    • Mike Dixon
      Mike Dixon (conductor)
      Michael Dixon is a British conductor. He is a 1979 graduate of Trinity College of Music. Among other orchestras, he has led the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra. In 2004, together with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, he recorded Seven: A Suite for Orchestra by Tony...

       - Miss World Musical Director
    • Zhao Benshan
      Zhao Benshan
      Zhao Benshan is a Chinese skit and sitcom actor, and recently turned TV director. He appears regularly on the CCTV New Year's Gala.-Biography:...

       - Actor & Comedian
    • Bruce Zhao - Chairman of the Huayu Group
    • Andrew Minarik - Miss World Make-Up & Hairdresser

    Performers

    These are the international performers for Miss World 2010:
    • Shayne Ward
      Shayne Ward
      Shayne Thomas Ward is an English pop singer who rose to fame as the winner of second series of The X Factor. He has sold over 3 million records worldwide and has had number one albums and singles in 9 countries.During The X Factor competition, Ward was mentored by manager Louis Walsh...

       - The X Factor winner.
    • Dave Koz
      Dave Koz
      Dave Koz is an American smooth jazz saxophonist.- Life and career :Dave Koz was born on March 27, 1963 in Encino, California....

       - American saxophonist.
    • Carlos Aponte - Puerto Rican singer.

    Contestants

    Country/Territory Contestant Age Height Hometown
    Arnita Beqiraj 18 Vlorë
    Vlorë
    Vlorë is one of the biggest towns and the second largest port city of Albania, after Durrës, with a population of about 94,000 . It is the city where the Albanian Declaration of Independence was proclaimed on November 28, 1912...

    Ivanita Jones 23 Zaire
    Mariana Arambarry 22 Ingeniero Luiggi
    Ingeniero Luiggi
    Ingeniero Luiggi is a town in La Pampa Province in Argentina.-References:...

    Kimberly Kuiperi 21 Tanki Leendert
    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...

    Ashleigh Francis 23 Sydney
    Sydney
    Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

    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...

    Danielle Bishop 21 Bridgetown
    Bridgetown
    The city of Bridgetown , metropolitan pop 96,578 , is the capital and largest city of the nation of Barbados. Formerly, the Town of Saint Michael, the Greater Bridgetown area is located within the parish of Saint Michael...

    Lyudmila Yakimovich 22 Hrodna
    Hrodna
    Grodno or Hrodna , is a city in Belarus. It is located on the Neman River , close to the borders of Poland and Lithuania . It has 327,540 inhabitants...

    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....

    Jessel Lauriano 22 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...

    María Teresa Roca 24 Trinidad
    Trinidad, Bolivia
    Trinidad, officially La Santísima Trinidad , is a city in Bolivia, capital of the department of Beni. The population is 130,000 ....

    ' Snežana Prorok
    Snežana Prorok
    Snežana Prorok is a Bosnia and Herzegovina beauty pageant contestant from Istočna Ilidža, City of East Sarajevo, who won Miss Bosnia and Herzegovina 2010 title and previously won title Miss Republika Srpska 2010....

     
    16 Istočna Ilidža
    Istocna Ilidža
    Istočna Ilidža is a municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Istočna Ilidža is a one of the six municipalities of the City of East Sarajevo...

    Emma Wareus
    Emma Wareus
    Emma Wareus is a beauty queen from Botswana who placed first runner-up to Miss World 2010 on October 30, 2010 in Sanya, China. This is the highest placement for a woman from her country in the history of the pageant...

     
    19 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....

    Kamilla Salgado 23 Belém
    Romina Andonova 21 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...

    Denise Garrido 23 Bradford
    Bradford, Ontario
    Bradford is the primary country urban area of the Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury, Ontario, in Canada. It overlooks a beautiful and prosperous farming community, known as The Holland Marsh, located on the Holland River that flows into Lake Simcoe...

    Joceline Fortes 22 Sao Vicente
    São Vicente, Cape Verde
    São Vicente , also Son Visent or Son Sent in Cape Verdean Creole, is one of the Barlavento islands of Cape Verde. It is located between the islands of Santo Antão and Santa Luzia, with the Canal de São Vicente separating it from Santo Antão.- Geography :The island is roughly rectangular in shape...

    Cristin Alexander 23 George Town
    George Town, Cayman Islands
    George Town, Grand Cayman, is the capital of the Cayman Islands, in the British West Indies. The city has a population of 35,600 and is the largest city on Grand Cayman....

    ' Tang Xiao 23 Dalian
    Dalian
    Dalian is a major city and seaport in the south of Liaoning province, Northeast China. It faces Shandong to the south, the Yellow Sea to the east and the Bohai Sea to the west and south. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, Dalian is the southernmost city of Northeast China and China's...

    Laura Palacio 23 Medellín
    Medellín
    Medellín , officially the Municipio de Medellín or Municipality of Medellín, is the second largest city in Colombia. It is in the Aburrá Valley, one of the more northerly of the Andes in South America. It has a population of 2.3 million...

    Dayana Aguilera 19 Palmares
    Palmares Canton
    Palmares is the name of the seventh canton in the province of Alajuela in Costa Rica. The canton covers an area of 38.06 km², and has a population of 31,608. The capital city of the canton is also called Palmares....

    Inès Da Silva 21 N'zi-Comoé
    N'zi-Comoé
    N'zi-Comoé is one of the 19 regions of Côte d'Ivoire. The region's capital is Dimbokro. Covering 19,560 km², its population is 909,800.The region is divided into five departments: Bocanda, Bongouanou, Daoukro, Dimbokro and Mbahiakro....

    Katarina Banić 20 Trilj
    Trilj
    Trilj is a municipality and town in inland Dalmatia, Croatia. It is located southeast of Sinj and northeast of Split. The total population of the municipality is 9,417, with 2,110 in Trilj itself and the rest in small villages...

    Angenie Simon 24 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...

    Andrea Kkolou 19 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...

    Veronika Machová
    Veronika Machová
    Veronika Machová is a Czech beauty pageant contestant from Rokycany who won Czech Miss World 2010 on Saturday 20 March 2010. She is student of Pedagogical Faculty, Charles UniversityShe competed in Miss World 2010 in China.-References:...

     
    20 Rokycany
    Rokycany
    Rokycany , is a town in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It lies to the East from the region capital of Pilsen on the confluence of the River Klabava and the Holoubkov Brook . Alternatively, the Holoubkovský potok is referred to as the Borecký potok and the section of the Klabava River down...

    Nataliya Averina 20 Roskilde
    Roskilde
    Roskilde is the main city in Roskilde Municipality, Denmark on the island of Zealand. It is an ancient city, dating from the Viking Age and is a member of the Most Ancient European Towns Network....

    Ana Galarza
    Ana Galarza
    Ana Mercedes Galarza Añazco is a beauty pageant titleholder who competed the Miss Ecuador 2010, and placed first runner-up.- Miss Ecuador 2010 :...

     
    21 Ambato
    Sara El-Khouly
    Sara El-Khouly
    Sara El-Khouly is an Egyptian model and beauty queen. She is of part Croatian descent and grew up in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.-Miss World 2010:...

    21 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...

    Gabriela Molina 22 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...

    Jessica Linley
    Jessica Linley
    Jessica Linley is a university student and commercial model who was crowned Miss England on 1 September 2010. She is originally from Norwich. She represented Nottingham at the Miss England competition and England at Miss World 2010....

     
    21 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...

    Hiwot Assefa Tesfaye 20 Addis Ababa
    Addis Ababa
    Addis Ababa is the capital city of Ethiopia...

    Anne-Marie Nurminen 22 Helsinki
    Helsinki
    Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...

    Virginie Dechenaud
    Virginie Dechenaud
    Virginie Dechenaud is a French beauty pageant winner who represented Rhône-Alpes and placed first runner-up to Miss France 2010.-Miss France:...

    24 La Frette
    La Frette, Isère
    La Frette is a commune in the Isère department in south-eastern France.-See also:*Communes of the Isère department...

    Mihilani Teixeira 20 Papeete
    Papeete
    -Sights:* Interactive Google map of Papeete, to discover the 30 major tourist attractions in Papeete downtown.*The waterfront esplanade*Bougainville Park -Sights:* Interactive Google map of Papeete, to discover the 30 major tourist attractions in Papeete downtown.*The waterfront...

    Dea Arakishvili 20 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...

    Susanna Kobylinski 22 Bremen
    Bremen
    The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...

    Mimi Areme 21 Volta Region
    Volta Region
    Volta Region is one of Ghana's ten administrative regions. It is to the east of Lake Volta. Its capital is Ho.-List of districts:The region has 18 districts consisting of 3 municipal and 15 ordinary districts:-Background:...

    Larissa Dalli 23 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...

    Diamanto Gasteratou
    Diamanto Gasteratou
    Diamanto – Manto Gasteratou won the title Miss Hellas 2010 at the Miss Star Hellas pageant and will represent Greece at the Miss World 2010 pageant....

     
    22 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...

     Guadeloupe Ericka Aly 20 Petit-Bourg
    Petit-Bourg
    Petit-Bourg is the seventh-largest commune in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe. It is located on the east side of the island of Basse-Terre, and is part of the metropolitan area of Pointe-à-Pitre, the largest metropolitan area in Guadeloupe....

    Lucía Mazariegos 19 Antigua Guatemala
    Antigua Guatemala
    Antigua Guatemala is a city in the central highlands of Guatemala famous for its well-preserved Spanish Mudéjar-influenced Baroque architecture as well as a number of spectacular ruins of colonial churches...

    Aletha Shepherd 22 London
    Marilyn Medina 18 Los Angeles
     Hong Kong Cheung Sau-Man 23 Hong Kong
    Hong Kong
    Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

    Jennifer Kalo 22 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...

    Fanney Ingvarsdóttir 19 Garðabær
    Garðabær
    Garðabær is a municipality in the Greater Reykjavík area of Iceland.As of January 2011, its population was 10,909....

    Manasvi Mamgai
    Manasvi Mamgai
    Manasvi Mamgai is a well known Indian model who was crowned Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2010 on April 30, 2010. She also won Miss Tourism International held in Malaysia on December 31, 2008 and Elite Model Look, India in 2006...

    22 New Delhi
    New Delhi
    New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...

    Asyifa Latief
    Asyifa Latief
    Asyifa Syafiningdyah Putrambami Latief, presently known as Asyifa Latief is Miss Indonesia 2010. She is the first Arab-Indonesian to be crowned as Miss Indonesia....

     
    21 Bandung
    Bandung
    Bandung is the capital of West Java province in Indonesia, and the country's third largest city, and 2nd largest metropolitan area in Indonesia, with a population of 7.4 million in 2007. Located 768 metres above sea level, approximately 140 km southeast of Jakarta, Bandung has cooler...

    Emma Britt Waldron 21 Celbridge
    Celbridge
    Celbridge is a town and townland on the River Liffey in County Kildare, Ireland. It is west of Dublin. As a town within the Dublin Metropolitan Area and the Greater Dublin Area, it is located at the intersection of the R403 and R405 regional roads....

    Shavit Vizel 20 Be'eri
    Be'eri
    Be'eri is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located in the north-western Negev desert near the border with the Gaza Strip, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 774.-History:...

    Giada Pezzaioli 17 Montichiari
    Montichiari
    Montichiari is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy. It received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree on December 27, 1991....

    Chantal Alicia Raymond 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...

    Hiroko Matsunaga 18 Fukuoka
    Fukuoka
    Fukuoka most often refers to the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture.It can also refer to:-Locations:* Fukuoka, Gifu, a town in Gifu Prefecture, Japan* Fukuoka, Toyama, a town in Toyama Prefecture, Japan...

    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...

    Natasha Metto 20 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 Hye-young 20 Gyeongsangbuk-do
    Gyeongsangbuk-do
    Gyeongsangbuk-do or shortly Gyeongbuk is a province in eastern South Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the northern half of the former Gyeongsang province, remained a province of Korea until the country's division in 1945, then became part of South Korea.The Gyeongsangbuk-do Office is...

    Ludmila Voroncova 19 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,...

    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...

    Karabelo Mokoallo 23 Maseru
    Maseru
    Maseru is the capital of Lesotho. It is also the capital of the Maseru District. Located on the Caledon River, bordering South Africa, Maseru is Lesotho's only sizable city, with a population of approximately 227,880 . The city was established as a police camp and assigned as the capital after the...

    Gritė Maruškevičiūtė
    Gritė Maruškevičiūtė
    Gritė Maruškevičiūtė is Miss Lithuania 2010. She represented Lithuania in Miss World 2010 on October and she reached top 40 at beach beauty event....

     
    21 Vilnius
    Vilnius
    Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...

    Shari Thuyns 19 Mamer
    Mamer
    Mamer is a commune and town in south-western Luxembourg. It is located west of Luxembourg City. The commune includes the town of Mamer, and also the smaller communities of Capellen and Holzem. Mamer is situated on the river Mamer, a tributary of the Alzette...

     Macau Cherry Ng Ka-I 23 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...

    ' Stefani Borsova 20 Skopje
    Skopje
    Skopje is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia with about a third of the total population. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre...

    Ella Kabambe 24 Blantyre
    Blantyre, Malawi
    Blantyre or Mandala is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce, the largest city with an estimated 732,518 inhabitants . It is sometimes referred to as the commercial capital of Malawi as opposed to the political capital, Lilongwe...

    Nadia Min Dern Heng 25 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...

    Francesca Gaspar 24 Iklin
    Iklin
    L-Iklin is a relatively modern village in the centre of Malta, with a population of 3,203 people , situated between Birkirkara, Naxxar and Ħal Lija. L-Iklin detached itself only recently from neighbouring village, Lija. A number of commercial outlets have more recently opened in the area. It also...

     Martinique Tully Fremcourt 20 La Trinité
    La Trinité, Martinique
    La Trinité is a town and commune in the French overseas department of Martinique.-External links:*...

    Dalysha Doorga 23 Goodlands
    Anabel Solis
    Anabel Solís
    Anabel Solís Sosa is a Mexican beauty queen expected to represent her country in the 60th international Miss World pageant, to be held October 30, 2010 in People's Republic of China....

     
    23 Mérida
    Mérida, Yucatán
    Mérida is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Yucatán and the Yucatán Peninsula. It is located in the northwest part of the state, about from the Gulf of Mexico coast...

    Daria Zaiteva 20 Chişinău
    Chisinau
    Chișinău is the capital and largest municipality of Moldova. It is also its main industrial and commercial centre and is located in the middle of the country, on the river Bîc...

    Sarnai Amar 23 Ulaanbaatar
    Ulaanbaatar
    Ulan Bator or Ulaanbaatar is the capital and largest city of Mongolia. An independent municipality, the city is not part of any province, and its population as of 2008 is over one million....

    Milica Milatović 17 Podgorica
    Podgorica
    Podgorica , is the capital and largest city of Montenegro.Podgorica's favourable position at the confluence of the Ribnica and Morača rivers and the meeting point of the fertile Zeta Plain and Bjelopavlići Valley has encouraged settlement...

    Odile Gertze
    Odile Gertze
    - External links :*...

    22 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...

    Sadichha Shrestha
    Sadichha Shrestha
    Sadichha Shrestha is Miss Nepal 2010. She represented Nepal in Miss World 2010 on October 2010. along with the title of Miss Nepal 2010 she also grabbed the titles of Miss personality, Miss Best Walk and Miss Photogenic. It is the highest number of subtitles won by the same contestant in miss Nepal...

     
    19 Kathmandu
    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...

    Cody Yerkovich 18 Kaitaia
    Kaitaia
    Kaitaia is a town in the far north region of New Zealand, at the base of the Aupouri Peninsula which is about 160 km northwest of Whangarei. It is the last major settlement on the main road north to the capes and bays on the peninsula...

    Afoma Amuzie 19 Niger
    Niger
    Niger , officially named the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east...

     Northern Ireland Lori Moore
    Lori Moore (beauty queen)
    Lori Moore is a student from Belfast, Northern Ireland who was crowned Miss Northern Ireland 2010. She will represent the country at Miss World 2010. Lori is the first woman of black heritage to be crowned Miss Northern Ireland. Moore will represent the United Kingdom in Miss International...

    20 Belfast
    Belfast
    Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly...

    Mariann Birkedal
    Mariann Birkedal
    -External links:*...

    23 Stavanger
    Stavanger
    Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...

    Paola Vaprio Medaglia
    Paola Vaprio
    Paola Alessandra Vaprio Medaglia is the former Miss World Panama, she was born in Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá on June 12, 1987. The Miss World Panama pageant was held on the Ascanio Arosemena Theatre, on August 26, 2010. Paola is the sister of the former Miss World Panama 2005 Anna Isabella Vaprio...

     
    24 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...

    Egni Eckert
    Egni Eckert
    Egni Analia Almirón Eckert, simply known as Egni Eckert or Egny Eckert, is a model and beauty queen contestant from Paraguay who represented her country in the Miss World 2010 pageant held in Sanya, China, placing among the Top 25 finalists....

    23 Luque
    Luque
    Luque is a city in Central Department, Paraguay, part of the Gran Asunción metropolitan area. It is located at around . It is the location of the Silvio Pettirossi International Airport for Asunción and the headquarters of CONMEBOL...

    Alexandra Liao
    Alexandra Liao
    Alexandra Liao is a model and a pageant titleholder who won the Miss Perú 2010 pageant on May 22, 2010. Liao also won the "Miss Personal Training"and "Best Hair" awards. She will represent Peru in the 2010 Miss World pageant, in a venue to be announced....

     
    20 Lima
    Lima
    Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...

    Czarina Gatbonton
    Czarina Gatbonton
    Czarina Catherine Ramos Gatbonton is one of the three reigning Binibining Pilipinas 2010, and she represented the Philippines in the 60th edition of Miss World...

    19 Malolos
    Agata Szewioła 21 Żary
    Zary
    Żary is a town in western Poland with about 39,900 inhabitants , situated in the Lubusz Voivodeship...

    Catarina Aragonez 22 Portalegre
    Portalegre, Portugal
    Portalegre is a city in Portalegre Municipality in Portalegre District, Portugal.The city proper has a population of 15,238.The municipality has an area of approximately 424 km² and is located on the border of Serra de São Mamede Natural Park...

    Yara Lasanta
    Yara Lasanta
    Yara Liz Lasanta Santiago is a beauty queen from Puerto Rico who participated in Miss World 2010.-Early life:...

     
    24 Barranquitas
    Barranquitas, Puerto Rico
    Barranquitas is a small mountain town located in the central region of Puerto Rico, south of Corozal and Naranjito; north of Coamo and Aibonito; west of Comerío and Cidra; and east of Orocovis. Barranquitas is spread over 6 wards and Barranquitas Pueblo...

    Lavinia Postolache 21 Piteşti
    Pitesti
    Pitești is a city in Romania, located on the Argeș River. The capital and largest city of Argeș County, it is an important commercial and industrial center, as well as the home of two universities. Pitești is situated on the A1 freeway connecting it directly to the national capital Bucharest,...

    Irina Sharipova
    Irina Sharipova
    Irina Sharipova is a beauty pageant winner who was Miss Tatarstan 2010 and first runner-up in Miss Russia 2010.Sharipova represented Russia in Miss World 2010 on October 30, 2010 in Sanya, People's Republic of China, and made the top 25.-Beauty pageants:At the national contest for "Miss...

     
    18 Apastovo
    Apastovo
    Apastovo is an urban locality and the administrative center of Apastovsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia...

    ' Fatisha Imo
    Fatisha Imo
    Fatisha Anita Imo is a student of Accounting and Spanish at Midwestern State University, who was crowned Miss World Saint Kitts and Nevis 2010. She will represent the country at Miss World 2010....

     
    22 Basseterre
    ' Aiasha Gustave 18 Gros Islet
    Gros Islet
    Gros Islet is a community located near the northern tip of the island country of Saint Lucia. Originally a quiet fishing village, it has gone on to become one of the more popular tourist destinations in the country....

    Nicola Mimnagh
    Nicola Mimnagh
    Nicola Mimnagh is Scottish beauty queen who was crowned Miss Scotland 2010 and also Miss United Kingdom 2010.-Miss Scotland:At George Square in Glasgow on 19 June 2010, Mimnagh was crowned Miss Scotland by outgoing 2009 titleholder Katharine Brown...

     
    21 Kilbarchan
    Kilbarchan
    Kilbarchan is a village and civil parish in central Renfrewshire, in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. The village's name means "cell of St. Barchan". It is known for its former weaving industry.- History :...

    Milica Jelić
    Milica Jelić
    Milica Jelić is a beauty queen who represented Serbia in Miss World 2010 in Sanya, China. She competed in the contest for the Miss Serbia 2009 and entered the top 10. Her ambitions are to become a successful journalist. She dealt with the Latin-American dance, volleyball and swimming.-External...

    20 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...

    Neyorlyn Willams 19 Freetown
    Freetown
    Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone, a country in West Africa. It is a major port city on the Atlantic Ocean located in the Western Area of the country, and had a city proper population of 772,873 at the 2004 census. The city is the economic, financial, and cultural center of...

    Anusha Rajaseharan 21 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...

    Marína Georgievová
    Marína Georgievová
    Marína Georgievová is a beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Slovensko 2010 titles.She represented Slovakia in Miss World 2010 at Sanya, People's Republic of China on October 30, 2010.- References :...

    18 Banská Bystrica
    Banská Bystrica
    Banská Bystrica is a key city in central Slovakia located on the Hron River in a long and wide valley encircled by the mountain chains of the Low Tatras, the Veľká Fatra, and the Kremnica Mountains. With 81,281 inhabitants, Banská Bystrica is the sixth most populous municipality in Slovakia...

    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...

    Fátima Jiménez 21 Sevilla
    Fallon Ranasinghe 22 Colombo
    Colombo
    Colombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital of Sri Lanka. Colombo is often referred to as the capital of the country, since Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is a satellite city of Colombo...

    Jo-ann Maria Sang 19 Paramaribo
    Paramaribo
    Paramaribo is the capital and largest city of Suriname, located on banks of the Suriname River in the Paramaribo District. Paramaribo has a population of roughly 250,000 people, more than half of Suriname's population...

    Dani Karlsson
    Dani Karlsson
    Dani Karlsson is a Swedish beauty pageant titleholder and model who won Miss World Sweden 2010 and represented Sweden at Miss World 2010 on October 30 in China. Karlsson was called in the same day as the pageant finale as one of the other contestant decided to back out of the pageant...

     
    25 Stockholm
    Stockholm
    Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

    Genevieve Mpangala 20 Chang'ombe
    Chang'ombe
    Chang'ombe is an administrative ward in the Temeke district of the Dar es Salaam Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 19,452....

    Yuwaret Sirirat Rueangsri
    Sirirat Rueangsri
    Yuwaret Sirirat Rueangsri , nicknamed Noo-si is Miss Thailand World 2010. She was crowned Miss Thailand World 2010 on August 14, 2010 by Pongchanok Kanklab, Miss Thailand World 2009....

     
    22 Chiang Mai
    Chiang Mai Province
    Chiang Mai is the second-largest province of Thailand, located in the north of the country. Neighboring provinces are Chiang Rai, Lampang, Lamphun, Tak, and Mae Hong Son. In the north it borders Shan State of Burma...

    ' Davia Chambers 18 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...

    Heyzme Nansubuga 25 Jinja
    Jinja, Uganda
    Jinja is the largest town in Uganda, Africa. It is the second busiest commercial center in the country, after Kampala, Uganda's capital and only city. Jinja was established in 1907.-Location:...

    Kateryna Zakharchenko 21 Odessa
    Odessa
    Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...

    Alexandria Mills
    Alexandria Mills
    Alexandria Mills is a beauty pageant titleholder from the United States who was crowned Miss World 2010 on October 30, 2010 in Sanya, China...

    18 Louisville
    Louisville, Kentucky
    Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

    Carolyn Carter-Heller 20 Christiansted
    Eliana Olivera 22 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...

    Adriana Vasini
    Adriana Vasini
    Adriana Cristina Vasini Sánchez, is a Venezuelan beauty queen and fashion model who won the titles of Miss World Venezuela 2009 and Reina Hispanoamericana 2009...

     
    23 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...

    Nguyễn Ngọc Kiều Khanh
    Nguyễn Ngọc Kiều Khanh
    Nguyễn Ngọc Kiều Khanh is a beauty pageant contestant and student. Kiều Khanh was born 1992 in Munich, Germany, and is of Vietnamese descent. She also holds Vietnamese citizenship. She is the first runner-up of Miss Vietnam World 2010 pageant in Nha Trang, Vietnam...

    19 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...

    Courtenay Hamilton 20 Llantwit Major
    Llantwit Major
    Llantwit Major is a small coastal town and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, lying on the Bristol Channel coast. A small stream, the Afon Col-huw, runs through the town.-Local government:...

    Zindaba Hanzala 20 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...

    Samantha Tshuma 21 Bulawayo
    Bulawayo
    Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with an estimated population in 2010 of 2,000,000. It is located in Matabeleland, 439 km southwest of Harare, and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland...


    Returning countries and territories

    • 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...

      :
      • '
    • Last competed in 1997
      Miss World 1997
      Miss World 1997, the 47th Miss World pageant was held at the Baie Lazare, Seychelles on November 22, 1997. 86 delegates delegates competed for the coveted crown. At the end of the event, India's Diana Hayden came out victorious. Richard Steinmetz hosted the pageant, while Latin sensation Ricky...

      :

    • Last competed in 2003
      Miss World 2003
      Miss World 2003, the 53rd Miss World pageant was held at Crown of Beauty Theatre, Sanya, People's Republic of China on 6 December 2003. The pageant was presented by Phil Keoghan, Amanda Byram and Angela Chow. The contestants also visited Beijing, the national capital of People's Republic of China,...

      :
    • Last competed in 2005
      Miss World 2005
      Miss World 2005, the 55th Miss World pageant was held at the Crown of Beauty Theatre in Sanya, People's Republic of China on December 10, 2005. Nine former Miss World titleholders and chairwoman of Miss World Organization Julia Morley judged the pageant. Miss World 2004 María Julia Mantilla of Peru...

      :

    • Last competed in 2008
      Miss World 2008
      Miss World 2008, the 58th Miss World pageant was held at Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa on December 13, 2008. Originally, the pageant was going to take place in Kiev, Ukraine, but because of the ongoing crisis between Georgia and Russia in neighboring South Ossetia, the...

      :
      • '


    Withdrawals

    • 's entry to Miss World 2010 has been removed from the official Miss World website due to undisclosed reasons. Liberia will not compete in Miss World 2010 as Miss Liberia pageant is not scheduled to be held this year.
    • will not compete in Miss World 2010 as the contest has been rescheduled to October. On the other hand, Miss Swaziland committee is fighting a legal battle with Swaziland National Culture and Arts Council over the ban on beauty pageants imposed earlier this year.

    Replacements

    • : Carla Conrradi resigned as Miss Mundo Argentina. The 1st runner up, Marianna Arambarry will be the new titleholder and Argentina's representative at Miss World 2010.
    •  Hong Kong: Due to a schedule conflict of competing in Miss Chinese International Pageant 2010
      Miss Chinese International Pageant 2010
      The 22nd Miss Chinese International Pageant, Miss Chinese International Pageant 2010 was held on November 5, 2010. Tianjin, China would host the pageant for the first time. TVB would broadcast the pageant one day later, delayed, for the first time ever...

      , Toby Chan, Winner of Miss Hong Kong 2010, cannot participate in the competition. The 1st runner up, Sammi Cheung will be the representative at Miss World 2010.
    • : Ágnes Dobó was Miss World Hungary 2010 until she injured her arm and wrist. This stopped her from participating in the pageant. She was replaced by one of her runners-up, Jennifer Kalo.

    Crossovers

    Contestants who previously competed at other beauty pageants or are expected to:
    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...

    • : Cristin Alexander

    Miss Universe 2010
    Miss Universe 2010
    Miss Universe 2010, the 59th edition of the pageant, was held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. on August 23, 2010. It was hosted by Bret Michaels and Natalie Morales...

    • : 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 10 finalist)
    • : 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...

       (Top 15 semifinalist)
    • : Braneka Basset
    • : Asselina Kuchukova
    • : Rahaf Abdallah
    • : Dalysha Doorga
    • : Desirée van den Berg
    • : 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...


    Miss Universe 2009
    Miss Universe 2009
    Miss Universe 2009, the 58th Miss Universe pageant, was held at the Atlantis Paradise Island, in Nassau, Bahamas on August 23, 2009. It was the first time back to back victories in Miss Universe history: Stefanía Fernández of Venezuela, was crowned Miss Universe 2009 by outgoing titleholder Dayana...

    • : Angenie Simon

    Miss Universe 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...


    Miss Earth 2010
    Miss Earth 2010
    Miss Earth 2010, the 10th edition of Miss Earth beauty pageant, was held at Vinpearl Land, Nha Trang, Vietnam on December 4, 2010.Eighty-four contestants from various countries and territories competed for the Miss Earth 2010 title. At the conclusion of the competition, outgoing titleholder Miss...

    • : Desirée van den Berg (Top 14)

    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...

    • : Denise Garrido
    • : Sarnai Amar

    Miss Earth 2005
    Miss Earth 2005
    Miss Earth 2005, the 5th edition of Miss Earth beauty pageant, took place on October 23, 2005 in Quezon City, Philippines. A total of 80 candidates from around the globe took part in the event....


    Miss Intercontinental 2009
    • : Hiwot Assefa Tesfaye (Top 15)


    Miss Tourism International 2008
    Miss Tourism International
    Miss Tourism International is an annual international beauty contest run by the D’ Touch International s Sdn Bhd Foundation. The beauty pageant had same with Miss Tourism International in Sri Lanka that was held three times . Nevertheless, the pageant not held again.The contest began in 1994 in...

    • : Manasvi Mamgai
      Manasvi Mamgai
      Manasvi Mamgai is a well known Indian model who was crowned Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2010 on April 30, 2010. She also won Miss Tourism International held in Malaysia on December 31, 2008 and Elite Model Look, India in 2006...

       (Winner)

    Miss Asia Pacific World 2011
    Miss Asia Pacific World 2011
    Miss Asia Pacific World 2011, was held in Daegu, Busan, Seoul, South Korea. The winner of this pageant is Florima Treiber of France.-Placements:-Special Awards:-Judges:*Miyako Miyazaki - Miss Universe Japan 2003...

    • : Kamilla Salgado

    World Miss University 2008
    World Miss University
    World Miss University is an international beauty contest held annually in Seoul, South Korea since 1986, with an average of about 40 contestants every year....

    • : Sarnai Amar (Winner)

    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....

    • : Lucia Mazariegos
    • : Egni Eckert
      Egni Eckert
      Egni Analia Almirón Eckert, simply known as Egni Eckert or Egny Eckert, is a model and beauty queen contestant from Paraguay who represented her country in the Miss World 2010 pageant held in Sanya, China, placing among the Top 25 finalists....

       (1st runner-up)
    • : Alexandra Liao
      Alexandra Liao
      Alexandra Liao is a model and a pageant titleholder who won the Miss Perú 2010 pageant on May 22, 2010. Liao also won the "Miss Personal Training"and "Best Hair" awards. She will represent Peru in the 2010 Miss World pageant, in a venue to be announced....


    Reina Hispanoamericana 2009
    Reina Hispanoamericana 2009
    Reina Hispanoamericana 2009, The 19th Reina Hispanoamericana Beauty Pageant was held in Parque Urbano, in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on October 29, 2009. 21 contestants was competed in the event. Adriana Vasini, Miss Venezuela, won the title .-Placements:...

    • : Adriana Vasini
      Adriana Vasini
      Adriana Cristina Vasini Sánchez, is a Venezuelan beauty queen and fashion model who won the titles of Miss World Venezuela 2009 and Reina Hispanoamericana 2009...

       (Winner)

    Miss Latin America 2009
    Miss Latin America 2009
    Miss América Latina 2009 is the twenty-third international edition of the Miss América Latina contest. The final event was held on May 23, 2009 in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic...

    • : Denise Garrido (3rd runner-up)

    Elite Model Look India 2006
    Elite Model Look
    Elite Model Look is a yearly fashion modeling event held by Elite Model Management, an international model management group. It is the premiere and most prestigious modeling contest used to discover and launch fashion models in the international fashion marketplace...

    • : Manasvi Mamgai
      Manasvi Mamgai
      Manasvi Mamgai is a well known Indian model who was crowned Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2010 on April 30, 2010. She also won Miss Tourism International held in Malaysia on December 31, 2008 and Elite Model Look, India in 2006...

       (Winner)

    Nuestra Belleza Latina 2007
    Nuestra Belleza Latina 2007
    Nuestra Belleza Latina 2007 was the first season of Nuestra Belleza Latina. After castings around the United States and Puerto Rico 12 finalists moved to Miami and lived together where they received different classes of dancing, runway, diction, teleprompter and physical training. The finalists...

    • : Yara Lasanta
      Yara Lasanta
      Yara Liz Lasanta Santiago is a beauty queen from Puerto Rico who participated in Miss World 2010.-Early life:...

       (2nd runner-up)

    Miss Teen International 2001
    Miss Teen International
    Miss Teen International is an annual beauty pageant for teen aged girls from the Americas and other regions of the world.The current titleholder will be crowned Miss Teen International 2010 by Nazareth Cascante of Costa Rica on Sunday 21st,2010 ....

    • : Yara Lasanta
      Yara Lasanta
      Yara Liz Lasanta Santiago is a beauty queen from Puerto Rico who participated in Miss World 2010.-Early life:...

       (Winner)

    Reina de Ambato
    • : Ana Galarza
      Ana Galarza
      Ana Mercedes Galarza Añazco is a beauty pageant titleholder who competed the Miss Ecuador 2010, and placed first runner-up.- Miss Ecuador 2010 :...

       (Winner)

    Miss Humanity International 2011
    • : Czarina Gatbonton (2nd runner-up)


    Historical significance

    • United States won its third Miss World title.
    • Ireland received its highest finish since Rosanna Davison
      Rosanna Davison
      Rosanna Diane Davison was the winner of the Miss World 2003 title. She is the daughter of musician Chris de Burgh. The song "For Rosanna" was written by her father in her honour for his 1986 album, Into The Light.-Education:Her primary education was at Aravon School, in Co...

       won the title in 2003.
    • Venezuela made into the top 5 for the first time since 1999.
    • Botswana placed for the first time and placed their highest ever in the pageant.
    • French Polynesia and Mongolia placed for the first time.
    • Countries that were also in the semi finals last year were: Canada, Colombia, France and South Africa.
    • St. Lucia last placed in 1975
      Miss World 1975
      The 25th Miss World pageant was held on November 20, 1975 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. 67 contestant took part in the pageant won by Wilnelia Merced of Puerto Rico...

      .
    • Germany last placed in 1980
      Miss World 1980
      Miss World 1980, the 30th Miss World pageant, was held on November 13, 1980 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Gabriella Brum from Germany...

      .
    • Paraguay last placed in 1985
      Miss World 1985
      Miss World 1985, the 35th Miss World pageant, was held on 14 November 1985 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom. 78 contestants from all over the world competed for the coveted title...

      .
    • Bahamas last placed in 1992
      Miss World 1992
      Miss World 1992, the 42nd Miss World pageant was held on December 12, 1992 in Sun City Entertainment Center, Sun City, South Africa. The winner was Julia Alexandrovna Kourotchkina from Russia.-Results:-Order of Semi-finalists:*1. Finland*2. Venezuela...

      .
    • Thailand last placed in 1997
      Miss World 1997
      Miss World 1997, the 47th Miss World pageant was held at the Baie Lazare, Seychelles on November 22, 1997. 86 delegates delegates competed for the coveted crown. At the end of the event, India's Diana Hayden came out victorious. Richard Steinmetz hosted the pageant, while Latin sensation Ricky...

      .
    • Kenya last placed in 2000
      Miss World 2000
      Miss World 2000, the 50th Miss World pageant, was held on 30 November 2000 at the Millennium Dome in London, United Kingdom. The pageant's swimsuit segment was filmed in the Maldives....

      .
    • Netherlands last placed in 2002
      Miss World 2002
      Miss World 2002, the 52nd Miss World pageant was held on December 7, 2002 at Alexandra Palace, London, United Kingdom. The pageant was initially slated for Abuja, Nigeria but due to conflict in the city of Kaduna arising from a publication of an article in a Lagos based newspaper the pageant was...

      .
    • Ireland and Norway last placed in 2003
      Miss World 2003
      Miss World 2003, the 53rd Miss World pageant was held at Crown of Beauty Theatre, Sanya, People's Republic of China on 6 December 2003. The pageant was presented by Phil Keoghan, Amanda Byram and Angela Chow. The contestants also visited Beijing, the national capital of People's Republic of China,...

      .
    • Italy last placed in 2005
      Miss World 2005
      Miss World 2005, the 55th Miss World pageant was held at the Crown of Beauty Theatre in Sanya, People's Republic of China on December 10, 2005. Nine former Miss World titleholders and chairwoman of Miss World Organization Julia Morley judged the pageant. Miss World 2004 María Julia Mantilla of Peru...

      .
    • Namibia, Northern Ireland, and Scotland last placed in 2006
      Miss World 2006
      Miss World 2006, the 56th Miss World pageant was held at Sala Kongresowa, the main 2,897-seat auditorium at the Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw, Poland on the September 30, 2006. It was the first time ever that the pageant was held in a European city other than London, United Kingdom, having...

      .
    • China PR and United States last placed in 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...

      .
    • Puerto Rico, Russia and Venezuela last placed in 2008
      Miss World 2008
      Miss World 2008, the 58th Miss World pageant was held at Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa on December 13, 2008. Originally, the pageant was going to take place in Kiev, Ukraine, but because of the ongoing crisis between Georgia and Russia in neighboring South Ossetia, the...

      .

    International Broadcasters

    These are some of the networks outside of China (telecasted on CCTV) that showed the 2010 Miss World pageant live (or recorded earlier) in their respective countries and territories:
    • : TPA
      Televisão Pública de Angola
      Televisão Pública de Angola or TPA is the national broadcaster of the Southern African state of Angola. It operates two national TV-channels TPA 1 and TPA 2 as well as the international channel TPA Internacional. TPA is headquartered in the capital city Luanda and broadcasts in Portuguese language...

    • : ARMTV
    • : 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"...

    • : SBS
      Special Broadcasting Service
      The Special Broadcasting Service is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television network. The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect...

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

    • : ATN Bangla
      ATN Bangla
      ATN Bangla is a Bengali language digital cable television channel. It transmits from its studio in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The channel is transmitted in South Asia, the Middle-east, Europe, and North America. The channel offers a wide variety of programming including news, movies, dramas, talk shows,...

    • : CBC
      Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation
      The Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation is the government-owned media corporation located in Barbados.The television service broadcasts on channel 8 and is the only legally-licensed, over-the-air television channel broadcasting in the country of Barbados...

    • : Belaruskaja
    • : NonStop Television
      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...

    • : 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....

    • : BHRT
    • : Botswana Television
    • : CCTV
      China Central Television
      China Central Television or Chinese Central Television, commonly abbreviated as CCTV, is the major state television broadcaster in mainland China. CCTV has a network of 19 channels broadcasting different programmes and is accessible to more than one billion viewers...

    • : 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...

    • : Canal Uno
      Canal Uno
      Canal Uno is the first Colombian national television channel. It started 13 June 1954 on Channel 8 in Bogotá. It is state-owned, operated by Radio Televisión Nacional de Colombia, and privately-run, with programming companies known as programadoras bidding for time slots with the Colombian...

    • : 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...

    • : NonStop Television
      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...

    • : Dalycartoon
    • : TCS
    • : Active Channel
    • : NonStop Television
      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...

    • : NonStop Television
      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...

    • : 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:*...

    • : Telemedia
    • : Viasat TV
    • : GBC
      Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation
      The Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation is Gibraltar's public service broadcaster. It has provided the community with a radio and television service since 1963.-History:...

    • : Radio Television Guatemala
    • : CCTV
      China Central Television
      China Central Television or Chinese Central Television, commonly abbreviated as CCTV, is the major state television broadcaster in mainland China. CCTV has a network of 19 channels broadcasting different programmes and is accessible to more than one billion viewers...

    • : RTL Klub
      RTL Klub
      RTL Klub is a television station owned by RTL Group and broadcast in Hungary. It was one of Hungary's first commercial TV channels and was only two days after the main rival TV2 to begin broadcasting.-About RTL Klub:...

    • : SkjárEinn
    • : Zee TV
      Zee TV
      Zee TV is an India-based satellite television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, which broadcasts various programmes in Hindi and other regional languages of India. Broadcasting is also present in various nations of South Asia, Europe, the Middle East,...

    • : RCTI
      RCTI
      RCTI is Indonesia's first privately owned television network and is based in West Jakarta. RCTI broadcasts Indonesian Idol as well as sinetron , films, news and current affairs, reality shows and religious programs...

    • : Active Channel
    • : Channel 10
    • : High Life TV
    • : TVJ
    • : KTK
    • : Royal Media Services
    • : T-Cast / Fashion N
    • : NonStop Television
      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...

    • : LBC
      Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation
      The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation , widely known as LBC, is the first private television station in Lebanon. It went global in 1996 when it launched its satellite channel LBC Al-Fadha'iya Al-Lubnaniya covering the Arab World. It now has several channels covering Europe, America, Australia, and...


    • : LRT
      Lithuanian National Radio and Television
      Lithuanian National Radio and Television is the national public broadcasting company of Lithuania. The company operates the two national public television channels LTV, LTV2 and LTV World . LRT also broadcasts three national public radio stations...

    • : NonStop Television
      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...

    • : CCTV
      China Central Television
      China Central Television or Chinese Central Television, commonly abbreviated as CCTV, is the major state television broadcaster in mainland China. CCTV has a network of 19 channels broadcasting different programmes and is accessible to more than one billion viewers...

    • : Kanal 5
      Kanal 5 (Macedonia)
      Kanal 5 is a national, privately owned, television channel in the Republic of Macedonia. It was founded in its current form in 1998. The network's main office is in Skopje, and also has smaller studios in other bigger cities all around the Republic of Macedonia.The network began broadcasting to...

    • : MBC
      Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation
      The Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation is the public broadcaster of the Republic of Mauritius, formed on June 8, 1964. Its funding comes from the levying of a television licence fee and commercials . However, the amount of funding received from commercials has come under pressure since the...

    • : 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...

    • : UBS
    • : STV
    • : NonStop Television
      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...

    • : TVNZ
    • : Silverbird Group
      Silverbird Group
      The Silverbird Group is one the largest entertainment companies in Nigeria and Africa. Consisting of Silverbird Entertainment, Silverbird Cinema, Rhythm FM and MBGN, it is thought to be third largest media entertainment company in Western Africa....

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    • : NonStop Television
      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...

    • : Medcom
    • : 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...

    • : Frecuencia Latina
      Frecuencia Latina
      Frecuencia Latina , better known as Channel 2, is a Peruvian television network. The network was founded on May 31, 1962 by the Cavero Family Group who turned the station into a network filled with musical programs and variety shows...

    • : TV5
      Associated Broadcasting Company
      The Associated Broadcasting Company, Inc is a television network in the Philippines, with main broadcast facilities and transmitter located at 762 Quirino Highway, San Bartolome, Novaliches, Quezon City. The network was previously known as the , Associated Broadcasting Company remains the legal...

    • : Polsat
      Polsat
      Polsat is Poland's second biggest television channel, founded on December 5, 1992 and owned by Zygmunt Solorz-Żak.Polsat belongs to the Polsat Group , which also owns other channels:*Polsat HD*Polsat 2 International*Polsat News*TV Biznes...

    • : RTP2
    • : WIPR-TV
      WIPR-TV
      WIPR-TV is an non-commercial educational, full-power public television station located in San Juan, Puerto Rico transmitting over analog channel 6, digital 43. The station is owned and operated by Corporación de Puerto Rico para la Difusión Pública ...

    • : CTC
    • : Active Channel
    • : SBC
      Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation
      The Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation is the national public broadcaster of the Seychelles.SBC operates a television network and an AM radio station at 1368 kHz on medium wave. These broadcast programmes in the three national languages: English, French and Seychellois Creole...

    • : RTV
    • : Antena 3
      Antena 3 (Spain)
      Antena 3 is a Spanish terrestrial television channel owned by Antena 3 de Televisión. Some of the more popular programmes broadcast by Antena 3 include Aquí no hay quien viva, El Barco, Los Protegidos, Los Simpson and El Internado....

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    • : ATV
    • : Swazi TV
    • : NonStop Television
      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...

    • : Channel 3
      Channel 3 (Thailand)
      Thailand Colour Television Channel 3 is a Thailand television channel. The headquarters are located in Bangkok, Thailand. The channel was established in 1970.The owner of the channel is BEC-TERO.- Ident :-Broadcast times:...

    • : C Television
    • : WBS
    • : Inter-TV
      Inter (TV channel)
      Inter is the major TV channel in Ukraine. Based on it later was formed the whole new media group with variety of different other channels. Inter is among the top-rated networks in Ukraine, competing with such as 1+1 and Pershyi Natsionalnyi channels...

    • : E! Entertainment
    • : 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...

    • : HTV
      Ho Chi Minh City Television
      Ho Chi Minh City Television is the official televised channel of Ho Chi Minh City. HTV broadcasts in three channels: entertainment & advertisement service and gameshow on HTV7, information, propaganda-trend, official and analog-digital on HTV9, and HTV4. HTV also has several specific cable and...

    • : Active Channel
    • : ZNBC
    • : ZBC
      Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation
      The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation is the state-controlled broadcaster in Zimbabwe. It succeeded the Voice of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1980, which in turn had succeeded the Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation in 1979...

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