Listed Miss Grand International 2017's national representative selection

The fifth edition of the Miss Grand International pageant was held at the Vinpearl Phu Quoc Resort and Villas Convention Hall, Phú Quốc, Vietnam on October 25, 2017,  in which candidates from 77 countries and territories participated. These candidates were elected as the country representatives through different methods, such as through the Miss Grand National which was held to select the country representative for Miss Grand International specifically,   or appointed by another national pageant organizer, in which the main winner was sent to compete on other international stages. Some of them were assigned as the representatives without competing at any national pageant in this particular year.

Overview
As per data collected in the National preliminary contest section below, 46 national pageant was held to elect the country representatives for Miss Grand International 2022. Seventeen of which was the Miss Grand National pageants (A1), seven was other national contests that sent their main winners to Miss Grand International 2023 (A2), eight national contests listed the Miss Grand title as one of the supplement awards (B1), while the other sixteen pageants later appointed its runner-up as Miss Grand National titleholder (B2). All the remaining candidates were appointed without participating in any national pageants (C2), such as the representative of Hong Kong.

Several candidates did not enter the international competition with different reasons and no replacements were assigned, including the representatives of Albania, Iran, Ireland, Kosovo, Namibia, Singapore, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Eight candidates were assigned as the replacements for the original ones, including:
 * Canada: Miss Grand Canada 2017 winner, Maddison Fysh, resigned for unknown reasons, and the director assigned Natalie Allin as the new country's representative.
 * Cuba: The first appointed representative, Rachel Vazquez, was replaced by Yvette Blaess, who then later resigned the title and Lisandra Delgado was appointed as the new delegate. The seasons for such an incident was unknown.
 * Denmark: Former Miss Globe Denmark, Iben Haahr Berner, was elected as the replacement for Natasha Bendix Helms, who resigned due to health problems.
 * Ecuador: Miss Ecuador 2017 finalist, Analía Vernaza, was elected as the replacement for the original titleholder, María José Villacís, who resigned for undisclosed reasons.
 * Ethiopia:  Hanna Abate resigned, and Selamawit Teklay was elected as a new representative.
 * Hungary: The original representative, Pásztor Noémi, who obtained the title from the Miss International Hungary 2017 pageant, was replaced by former Miss International 2014, Dálma Karman, for unspecified reasons.
 * Myanmar: Due to political issues, Shwe Eain Si, was dethroned and later replaced by the first runner-up Miss Universe Myanmar 2013, Aye Chan Moe.
 * Venezuela: After Bruno Caldieron lost the license to Miguel Segovia, Maritza Contreras, who was expected to compete at Miss Grand International 2017, was replaced by an appointed Tulia Alemán.

In this 2022 edition, 6 countries made their debut; 18 countries that competed in the 2016 edition withdrew due to a lack of a national licensee, and 17 countries returned to the competition after being absent in the previous editions. Initially, 84 countries and territories franchises confirmed that they would send their candidates to Indonesia; however, representatives from the seven countries mentioned above withdrew for undisclosed reasons, making the finalized total of 77 contestants.

The information is summarized below.

National preliminary pageants
The following is a list of Miss Grand International 2017's national preliminary contests, which were categorized by the country representative selection methods.