111 Miss World 2019 candidates competing in London

Vanessa Ponce of Mexico was crowned Miss World 2018 at the Sanya City Arena in Sanya, China on December 8, 2018. She competed against 117 other candidates.

Miss World 2019

On December 14, 2019, Ponce will crown her successor at the ExCeL London in London, England, United Kingdom. It is the 68th edition of the oldest existing international beauty pageant.

A total of 111 women are competing for the title. Here are the candidates:

Africa

1. Brezana da Costa, 24, Angola
2. Oweditse Phirinyane Gofaone, 25, Botswana
3. Janet Ortiz Oyono, 20, Equatorial Guinea
4. Feven Gebreslassie, 22, Ethiopia
5. Rebecca Kwabi, 26, Ghana
6. Laila Samati, 21, Guinea-Bissau
7. Maria Nyamai Wavinya, 19, Kenya
8. Urvashi Gooriah, 20, Mauritius
9. Nyekachi Esther Douglas, 21, Nigeria
10. Meghan Nimwiza, 20, Rwanda
11. Alberta Diatta, 19, Senegal
12. Enid Jones-Boston, 24, Sierra Leone
13. Sasha-Lee Olivier, 26, South Africa
14. Mariah Nyayiena, 22, South Sudan
15. Sylvia Sebastian, 19, Tanzania
16. Sabrine Mansour, 24, Tunisia
17. Oliver Nakakande, 24, Uganda

Quiin Abenakyo of Uganda and Murielle Ravina of Mauritius were the only candidates from Africa who made it to the Top 12 at Miss World 2018. The Ugandan candidate advanced to the Top 5 and was crowned Miss World Africa 2018.

Asia

1. Liana Voskerchyan, 20, Armenia
2. Rafah Nanjeba Torsa, 21, Bangladesh
3. Vy Sreyvin, 20, Cambodia
4. Li Peishan, 20, China
5. Nini Gogichaishvili, 25, Georgia
6. Lila Lam, 27, Hong Kong
7. Suman Ratan Singh Rao, 20, India
8. Princess Megonondo, 19, Indonesia
9. Marika Sera, 17, Japan
10. Madina Batyk, 20, Kazakhstan
11. Ekaterina Zabolotnova, 24, Kyrgyzstan
12. Nelamith Xaypannha, 20, Laos
13. Yu Yanan, 26, Macau
14. Alexis SueAnn Seow, 24, Malaysia
15. Tsevelmaa Mandakh, 22, Mongolia
16. Khit Lin Latt Yoon, 22, Myanmar
17. Anushka Shrestha, 23, Nepal
18. Michelle Marquez Dee, 24, Philippines
19. Sheen Cher, 22, Singapore
20. Lim Ji Yeon, 20, South Korea
21. Dewmi Thathsarani, 20, Sri Lanka
22. Narintorn Chadapattarawalrachoat, 22, Thailand
23. Simay Rasimoğlu, 22, Turkey
24. Lương Thùy Linh, 19, Vietnam

Nicolene Limsnukan of Thailand and Shrinkhala Khatiwada of Nepal were the only candidates from Asia who made it to the Top 12 at Miss World 2018. The Thai candidate was the first runner-up and was crowned Miss World Asia 2018.

Caribbean

1. Taqiyyah Francis, 26, Antigua and Barbuda
2. Ghislaine Mejia, 26, Aruba
3. Nyah Bandelier, 19, Bahamas
4. Che Amor Greenidge, 25, Barbados
5. Rikkiya Brathwaite, 22, British Virgin Islands
6. Jaci Patrick, 24, Cayman Islands
7. Sharon Meyer, 22, Curaçao
8. Alba Marie Blair, 21, Dominican Republic
9. Anaïs Lacalmontie, 22, Guadeloupe
10. Joylyn Conway, 20, Guyana
11. Alysha Morency, 25, Haiti
12. Toni-Ann Singh, 23, Jamaica
13. Daniella Rodríguez, 22, Puerto Rico
14. Tya Jané La Shon Ramey, 21, Trinidad and Tobago
15. A’yana Keshelle Phillips, 24, United States Virgin Islands

Kadijah Robinson of Jamaica and Larissa Segarel of Martinique were the only candidates from the Caribbean who made it to the Top 12 at Miss World 2018. The Jamaican candidate advanced to the Top 5 and was crowned Miss World Caribbean 2018.

Europe

1. Atalanta Kercyku, 20, Albania
2. Anastasia Laurynchuk, 19, Belarus
3. Elena Castro Suarez, 19, Belgium
4. Ivana Ladan, 21, Bosnia and Herzegovina
5. Margo Cooper, 26, Bulgaria
6. Katarina Mamić, 23, Croatia
7. Denisa Spergerová, 19, Czech Republic
8. Natasja Kunde, 18, Denmark
9. Bhasha Mukherjee, 23, England
10. Dana Mononen, 19, Finland
11. Ophély Joëlle Mézino, 20, France
12. Celine Bolaños, 22, Gibraltar
13. Rafaela Plastira, 20, Greece
14. Krisztina Nagypál, 23, Hungary
15. Kolfinna Mist Austfjörð, 22, Iceland
16. Chelsea Farrell, 19, Ireland
17. Adele Sammartino, 24, Italy
18. Mélanie Heynsbroek, 19, Luxembourg
19. Nicole Vella, 20, Malta
20. Elizaveta Kuznitova, 19, Moldova
21. Mirjana Muratović, 19, Montenegro
22. Brenda Felicia Muste, 23, Netherlands
23. Lauren Eve Leckey, 20, Northern Ireland
24. Milena Sadowska, 20, Poland
25. Inês Brusselmans, 24, Portugal
26. Alina Sanko, 20, Russia
27. Keryn Matthew, 24, Scotland
28. Frederika Kurtulíková, 25, Slovakia
29. Špela Alič, 22, Slovenia
30. María del Mar Aguilera, 21, Spain
31. Daniella Lundqvist, 20, Sweden
32. Marharyta Pasha, 24, Ukraine
33. Gabriella Jukes, 22, Wales

Maria Vasilevich of Belarus,Maeva Coucke of France and Linzi McLelland and Scotland were the only candidates who made it to the Top 12 at Miss World 2018. The Belarusian candidate advanced to the Top 5 and was crowned Miss World Europe 2018.

North America (except Caribbean)

1. Naomi Colford, 19, Canada
2. Jessica Jiménez, 26, Costa Rica
3. Fatima Mangandi, 27, El Salvador
4. Dulce María Ramos García, 22, Guatemala
5. Ana Grisel Romero, 20, Honduras
6. Ashley Alvídrez, 20, Mexico
7. María Teresa Cortéz, 19, Nicaragua
8. Agustina Ruiz Arrechea, 25, Panama
9. Emmy Cuvelier, 23, United States

Vanessa Ponce of Mexico and Solaris Barba of Panama were the only candidates from North America who made it to the Top 12 at Miss World 2018. The Mexican candidate went on to be crowned as Miss World 2018 while the candidate from Panama was crowned Miss World Americas 2018.

Oceania

1. Sarah Marschke, 20, Australia
2. Tajiya Eikura Sahay, 26, Cook Islands
3. Lucy Brock, 24, New Zealand
4. Alalamalae Lata, 23, Samoa

Jessica Tyson of New Zealand was the only candidate from Oceania who made it to the Top 12 at Miss World 2018. She was crowned Miss World Oceania 2018.

South America

1. Judit Grnja, 18, Argentina
2. Iciar Díaz, 23, Bolivia
3. Elís Miele Coelho, 20, Brazil
4. Ignacia Albornoz Olmedo, 18, Chile
5. Sara Arteaga Franco, 25, Colombia
6. María Auxiliadora Idrovo, 18, Ecuador
7. Araceli Bobadilla, 20, Paraguay
8. Angella Escudero, 23, Peru
9. Isabella Rodríguez Guzmán, 26, Venezuela

Anahi Hormazabal of Chile and Veruska Ljubisavljević of Venezuela were the only candidates from South American who made it to the Top 30 at Miss World 2018. Neither advanced to the Top 12.