Miss Universe 2024

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Miss Universe 2024
VenueMexico
Debuts
  • Iran
Returns
  • Bangladesh
  • Belize
  • Botswana
  • China
  • Cuba
  • Kenya
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • New Zealand
  • Samoa
  • Turks and Caicos
  • US Virgin Islands
←  2023

Miss Universe 2024 will be the 73rd Miss Universe pageant. It will be held in Mexico for the first time since the country hosted in 2007. [1] [2] Sheynnis Palacios of Nicaragua will crown her successor at the end of the event.

Contents

Background

On 18 November 2023, during the Miss Universe 2023 pageant, businessman Raúl Rocha Cantú announced via a video presentation that the 73rd edition will be held in Mexico. [3]

In September 2023, during the Tanner Fletcher show at New York Fashion Week, Miss Universe 2022 R'Bonney Gabriel revealed that the Miss Universe Organization had made the decision to remove age restrictions for contestants over the age of 18, which would be implemented starting with the 2024 edition. Prior to this change, the pageant had restricted participation to women between ages 18–28 on the year of the pageant, outside of special circumstances. [lower-alpha 1] [5] [6]

Debuts, returns and withdrawals

This edition will mark the debut of Iran; [7] and the returns of Bangladesh, Belize, Botswana, China, Cuba, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, New Zealand, Samoa, Turks and Caicos, and the US Virgin Islands. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] Cuba last competed in 1967, which will be the country's first time to compete after six decades of absence from the competition; Samoa last competed in 1986 (as Western Samoa); Botswana last competed in 2013; Turks and Caicos last competed in 2014; Bangladesh, New Zealand, and the US Virgin Islands last competed in 2019; Kenya last competed in 2021; while the others last competed in 2022.

Contestants

As of 23 April 2024, nine contestants have been confirmed to compete for the title.

Country/TerritoryContestantAge [lower-alpha 2] Hometown
Flag of Belize.svg Belize Halima Hoy [13] 29 Port Loyola
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China Jia Qi [14] 23 Chengdu
Flag of France.svg France Indira Ampiot [15] 20 Basse-Terre
Flag of Greece.svg Greece Christianna Katsieri[ citation needed ]22 Piraeus
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan Madina Almukhanova [16] 23 Almaty
Flag of Kyrgyzstan (2023).svg Kyrgyzstan Maya Turdalieva [17] 25 Bishkek
Flag of Mongolia.svg Mongolia Nominzul Zandangiin [18] 19 Ulaanbaatar
Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand Franki Russell [19] 29 Dunedin
Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela Ileana Márquez [20] 28 Valencia

Upcoming national pageants

Country/TerritoryDate
Flag of Germany.svg Germany 28 April 2024 [21]
Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Dominican Republic 5 May 2024 [22]
Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia 6 May 2024 [23]
Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe 18 May 2024 [24]
Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines 22 May 2024 [25]
Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina 25 May 2024 [26] [27]
Flag of Curacao.svg Curaçao
Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia 2 June 2024 [28] [29]
Flag of Myanmar.svg Myanmar
Flag of Albania.svg Albania 8 June 2024 [30] [31]
Flag of Ecuador.svg Ecuador
Flag of Kosovo.svg Kosovo
Flag of Iran.svg Iran [lower-alpha 3] 17 June 2024 [7]
Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico 27 June 2024 [32]
Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica 29 June 2024 [33]
Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan June 2024 [34]
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands 5 July 2024 [35]
Flag of Chile.svg Chile 7 July 2024 [36]
Flag of Malta.svg Malta 11 July 2024 [37]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain 13 July 2024 [38]
Flag of Honduras.svg Honduras 15 July 2024[ citation needed ]
Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland 27 July 2024 [39] [40]
Flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands.svg Turks and Caicos
Flag of the United States.svg United States 4 August 2024 [41]
Flag of the Cayman Islands.svg Cayman Islands 31 August 2024 [42]
Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark 1 September 2024 [43]
Flag of Finland.svg Finland 14 September 2024 [44]
Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico September 2024 [45]

Notes

  1. ↑ Contestants over the age of 28 competed in recent editions of Miss Universe due to postponements, or after withdrawing from their scheduled edition for personal reasons and being invited to compete instead the following year. [4]
  2. ↑ Ages at the time of the pageant
  3. ↑ Iran will use the designation "Persia" for the pageant.

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