Sofia Shamia biography: 10 things about Miss World Ukraine 2023

Who is Sofia Shamia?

Sofia Shamia is a Ukrainian artist and beauty queen who is fond of drawing. Here are 10 more things about her:

1. She is the co-founder of the Japanese Café in Lviv, Ukraine.
2. She teaches art therapy classes to children and adults.
3. She attended Specialized School № 200 in Kyi, Ukraine.
4. She was born in Kyiv, Ukraine.
5. She speaks Ukrainian, Russian and English.
6. She enjoys painting pictures, selling them at auctions and donating the proceeds to charity.
7. She is 5’7″ tall.
8. She won Miss Ukraine 2023 while she was attending the Faculty of Economics of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv.
9. In 2024, she represented Ukraine in the 71st edition of Miss World while she was pursuing a bachelor’s degree in international economic relations.
10. On October 7, 2025, she will turn 21.

TIMELINE

2022

• On July 5, 2022, she was at Feofaniya Park in Kyiv.

2023

• On May 5, 2023, she visited a park in Lviv with her cat.
• In July 2023, she visited Miyakojima, Okinawa, Japan.
• On September 25, 2023, she was crowned Miss Ukraine 2023.
• On October 2, 2023, she visited her 11th grade teacher at Specialized School № 200.
• On November 23, 2023, she attended a charity event in Kyiv, which was organized by the first Ukrainian ecological jewelry brand that grows diamonds in Ukraine.

2024

• In January 2024, she conducted art therapy workshops with children in Ukraine.
• In February 2024, she held a painting workshop on plaster figures at Mriya, an educational rehabilitation center for children in Kviv.
• On March 9, 2024, she represented Ukraine at Miss World 2023 and competed against 111 other candidates at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai, India. She was Europe’s Beauty With a Purpose winner and she finished in the Top 40.
• On December 5, 2024, she crowned her successor Miss Ukraine 2024 Maria Melnychenko in Kyiv.

2025