Draft:Miss Universe 2025

Miss Universe 2025
Date	2025
Venue	Vietnam
Entrants	152
Debuts	Abkhazia - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Burkina Faso - Cabo Verde - Comoros - Crimea - Djibouti - Faroe Islands - Guinea-Bissau - Liechtenstein - Kurdistan - Kiribati - Malawi - Mali - Monaco - Marshall Islands - Mozambique - North Korea - Niger - Northern Cyprus - Niue - Palestine - Qatar - Saba - Somalia - San Marino - South Sudan - Tajikistan - Turkmenistan - Uganda
Returns	American Samoa - Antigua and Barbuda - Angola - Alaska - Austria - Barbados - Bermuda - Benin - Bhutan - Dominica - Chinese Taipei - French Guiana - Ghana - Madagascar - Micronesia - Reunion - Jordan - St Vicent and Grandines - Scotland - Slovenia - Seychelles - Sweden - Sierra Leone - Lesotho - Luxembourg - Liberia - Lithuania - Tunisia - Wales

Miss Universe 2025 will be the 74th Miss Universe pageant. To be held in Vietnam since 2008. The winner of Miss Universe 2024 will crown her successor at the end of the event.

Background

Debuts, Returns and replacements

This edition will mark the debut of Abkhazia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Comoros, Djibouti, Faroe Islands, Guinea-Bissau, Liechtenstein, Kurdistan, Kiribati, Malawi, Mali, Monaco, Mozambique Marshall Islands, North Korea, Northern Cyprus, Niger, Niue, Palestine, Qatar, Saba, Somalia, San Marino, South Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uganda. This edition will also feature the returns of Alaska (United States Territory) last competed in 1958; Jordan in 1960; Madagascar in 1961; Benin in 1962; Tunisia in 1971; Micronesia in 1975; Liberia in 1977; American Samoa and Lesotho in 1978; New Caledonia in 1982; French Guiana in 1984; Dominica in 1985; Reunion in 1986; Scotland and Wales as United Kingdom Territories in 1990; Luxembourg in 1994; Bermuda in 1997; Chinese Taipei (as Taiwan) in 2004; St.Vincent and Grenadines in 2006; Antigua and Barbuda in 2008; Austria and Slovenia in 2017; Sierra Leone and Lithuania in 2019; Barbados in 2020; Sweden in 2021; Bhutan, Ghana and Seychelles in 2022; Angola in 2023.

Contestants

These are the currently confirmed contestants:

Country/Territory	Contestant	Age	Hometown
Alaska	Andila Gales	29	Anchorage
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Andjela Gajić	20	Banja Luka
China	Xuhe Hou	18	Beijing
France	Eve Gilles	21	Dunkirk
Kyrgyzstan	Mary Kuvakova	22	Bishkek
Lesotho	Lilien Kowubahu	19	Leribe
Madagascar	Ava Hamenix	28	Toliara
Mongolia	Tara Kalajjin	28	Choibalsan
Mozambique	Suema Abdul Rachid	27	Montepuez
Palestine	Nadeen Ayoub	29	Ramallah
Seychelles	Shanian Dick	20	Mahé
Uzbekistan	Alaina Fermathova	18	Nukus

Upcoming national pageants

Country/Territory	Date
Suriname	2 November 2024
Angola	30 November 2024
Guinea
Venezuela	5 December 2024
Kazakhstan	5 January 2025
Croatia	14 March 2025
Antigua and Barbuda	April 2025
American Samoa	11 April 2025
Monaco
Mali	16 April 2025
Benin	23 April 2025
Barbados	May 2025
Dominica
Philippines	10 May 2025
Taiwan	27 May 2025
Slovenia	3 June 2025
Cyprus	10 June 2025
Northern Cyprus
Iran	27 June 2025
Ireland
Comoros
Guatemala	11 July 2025
Thailand	13 July 2025
Guyana
Turks and Caicos
Japan	July 2025
Trinidad and Tobago
United States
Samoa	3 August 2025
Sierra Leone	8 August 2025
South Sudan
Liberia	12 August 2025
United States Virgin Islands	17 August 2025
Honduras	21 August 2025
Fiji	28 August 2025
Congo-Kinshasa	30 August 2025
Denmark	3 September 2025
Nicaragua
Austria
Abkhazia	6 September 2025
Kurdistan
Qatar
Vietnam	11 September 2025
Kiribati
Tajikistan
Niue
New Zealand	17 September 2025
Micronesia	22 September 2025
Australia
Martinique