The Miss Universe 2022 coronation night will be held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States on January 14, 2023. It is the 71st edition of the international beauty pageant headquartered in New York, USA and Samut Prakan, Thailand.

This is also the last Miss Universe edition exclusively for women who have never been married and given birth. The competition’s 72nd edition will start welcoming candidates who are married and have children as long as they are 18-28 years old.

On October 26, 2022, JKN Global Group acquired the Miss Universe Organization (MUO) from Endeavor Group Holdings-owned IMG Worldwide at $14 million. This made Anne Jakrajutatip the first transgender woman to own the organization.

Representing India, Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu was 21 when she was crowned Miss Universe 2021 in Eilat, Israel on December 12, 2021. The respective first and second runners-up were Nadia Ferreira, then 22, of Paraguay and Lalela Mswane, then 24, of South Africa.

Sandhu is the third Miss Universe from India. The first two are Sushmita Sen and Lara Dutta, who were crowned in 1994 and 2000, respectively.

A total of 84 women will compete for the Miss Universe 2022 crown by Mouawad also called The Crown Number 12: Force for Good. Here are the candidates:

NAME	AGE	COUNTRY / TERRITORY
Deta Kokomani	22	Albania
Swelia da Silva Antonio	25	Angola
Barbara Yasmin Cabrera	26	Argentina
Kristina Ayanian	25	Armenia
Kiara Arends	24	Aruba
Monique Riley	27	Australia
Evlin Khalifa	24	Bahrain
Chayenne van Aarle	23	Belgium
Ashley Lightburn	26	Belize
Tashi Choden	23	Bhutan
Camila Sanabria	28	Bolivia
Mia Mamede	27	Brazil
Lia Claxton	18	British Virgin Islands
Kristina Plamenova	26	Bulgaria
Hang Manita	24	Cambodia
Monalisa Mouketey	26	Cameroon
Amelia Tu	21	Canada
Chloe Powery-Doxey	25	Cayman Islands
Sofia Depassier	24	Chile
Jiang Sichen	26	China
Maria Fernanda Aristizabal	25	Colombia
Maria Fernanda Rodriguez	25	Costa Rica
Arijana Podgajski	20	Croatia
Gabriëla Dos Santos	20	Curaçao
Sára Mikulenková	20	Czech Republic
Andreina Martínez	25	Dominican Republic
Nayelhi Gonzalez Ulloa	28	Ecuador
Alejandra Guajardo	26	El Salvador
Alba Isabel Obama Moliko	21	Equatorial Guinea
Petra Hämäläinen	26	Finland
Floriane Bascou	20	France
Soraya Kohlmann	24	Germany
Engracia Mofuman	27	Ghana
Noky Simbani	25	Great Britain
Korina Emmanouilidou	22	Greece
Ivana Batchelor	22	Guatemala
Mideline Phelizor	27	Haiti
Rebeca Rodríguez	20	Honduras
Hrafnhildur Haraldsdóttir	18	Iceland
Divita Rai	25	India
Laksmi De-Neefe Suardana	26	Indonesia
Virginia Stablum	24	Italy
Toshami Calvin	26	Jamaica
Marybelen Sakamoto	24	Japan
Roksana Ibrahimi	24	Kosovo
Altynai Botoyarova	18	Kyrgyzstan
Payengxa Lor	21	Laos
Yasmina Zaytoun	20	Lebanon
Cheam Wei Yeng	26	Malaysia
Maxine Formosa Gruppetta	22	Malta
Alexandrine Belle-Étoile	26	Mauritius
Irma Cristina Miranda Valenzuela	26	Mexico
Zar Li Moe	21	Myanmar
Cassia Sharpley	23	Namibia
Sophiya Bhujel	27	Nepal
Ona Moody	25	Netherlands
Norma Huembes Salazar	24	Nicaragua
Hannah Iribhogbe	21	Nigeria
Ida Anette Hauan	27	Norway
Solaris Barba	23	Panama
Leah Ashmore	27	Paraguay
Alessia Rovegno Cayo	24	Peru
Silvia Celeste Rabimbi Cortesi	25	Philippines
Aleksandra Klepaczka	23	Poland
Telma Madeira	23	Portugal
Ashley Cariño	28	Puerto Rico
Anna Linnikova	22	Russia
Sheris Paul	27	Saint Lucia
Gabriella Gonthier	24	Seychelles
Carissa Yap	22	Singapore
Karolína Michalčíková	24	Slovakia
Ndavi Nokeri	23	South Africa
Hanna Kim	28	South Korea
Alicia Faubel	26	Spain
Alia Giundi	19	Switzerland
Anna Sueangam-iam	24	Thailand
Angel Cartwright	28	The Bahamas
Tya Jané Ramey	25	Trinidad and Tobago
Aleyna Şirin	21	Turkiye
Viktoria Apanasenko	29	Ukraine
R’Bonney Gabriel	28	United States
Carla Romero	25	Uruguay
Amanda Dudamel Newman	23	Venezuela
Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Châu	28	Vietnam

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