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Miss Universe 2022 will be the 71st Miss Universe pageant, to be held at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana in the United States on January 14, 2023. Harnaaz Sandhu of India will crown her successor at the end of the event.

Location and date


In September 2022, Puerto Rican newspaper El Vocero reported that an email had been sent to national directors stating that the 2022 edition of Miss Universe would be held in the first quarter of 2023, due to the potential clash of dates with the 2022 FIFA World Cup in November and December 2022. El Vocero also reported that Los Angeles, Miami, and New Orleans in the United States and Nha Trang in Vietnam were seen as potential host cities.

Later in September, Miss Universe Organization (MUO) president Paula Shugart stated in an interview with ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs that the pageant would be held in January 2023, confirming that the reason for the postponement was to avoid a potential conflict with 2022 FIFA World Cup. Shugart additionally confirmed that the host city would likely be announced during the next week. On September 19, the MUO announced that the pageant would be held on January 14, 2023 at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. This will be the fourth time in the pageant's history that the event is held after the calendar year has ended; this previously occurred during Miss Universe 2014, Miss Universe 2016, and Miss Universe 2020 when took place the following year.

Selection of participants
Contestants from 79 countries and territories have been selected to compete in the competition. Fifteen of these delegates were appointees to their positions after being a runner-up of their national pageant or being selected through a casting process.

The 2022 edition will see the debuts of Bhutan, the United Arab Emirates, and the returns of Angola, Austria, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Bonaire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Georgia, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guyana, Indonesia, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Northern Marianas, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, Uruguay, the US Virgin Islands, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Guadeloupe last competed in 1984, Seychelles last competed in 1995, which makes it the country's first time to compete after 27 years of withdrawing from Miss Universe. Zimbabwe last competed in 2001; Bonaire last competed in 1999; Latvia, the Northern Marianas, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines last competed in 2006; Turks and Caicos last competed in 2014; Austria, Guyana, Iraq, Slovenia, Trinidad and Tobago last competed in 2017; Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, and Zambia last competed in 2018 ; Angola, Bangladesh, Egypt, Georgia, Guam, Lithuania, Mongolia, New Zealand, Saint Lucia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and the US Virgin Islands last competed in 2019; while the others last competed in 2020. Romania will withdraw from this year's competition due to undisclosed reasons.

Contestants
As of 6 October 2022, 79 contestants have been confirmed:

Debuts

 * 🇧🇹 Bhutan
 * 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

Withdrawals

 * 🇷🇴 Romania

Returns

 * Last competed in 1984:
 * 🇬🇵 Guadeloupe
 * Last competed in 1995:
 * 🇸🇨 Seychelles
 * Last competed in 1999:
 * Bonaire
 * Last competed in 2001:
 * 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
 * Last competed in 2006:
 * 🇱🇻 Latvia
 * Northern Marianas
 * 🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
 * Last competed in 2014:
 * Turks and Caicos
 * Last competed in 2017:
 * 🇦🇹 Austria
 * 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
 * 🇬🇾 Guyana
 * 🇮🇶 Iraq
 * 🇸🇮 Slovenia
 * 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago
 * Last competed in 2018:
 * 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
 * 🇱🇧 Lebanon
 * 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
 * 🇨🇭 Switzerland
 * 🇿🇲 Zambia
 * Last competed in 2019:
 * 🇦🇴 Angola
 * 🇧🇩 Bangladesh
 * 🇪🇬 Egypt
 * Georgia
 * 🇬🇺 Guam
 * 🇱🇹 Lithuania
 * 🇲🇳 Mongolia
 * 🇳🇿 New Zealand
 * 🇱🇨 Saint Lucia
 * 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone
 * 🇹🇿 Tanzania
 * US Virgin Islands
 * Last competed in 2020:
 * 🇧🇧 Barbados
 * 🇧🇿 Belize
 * 🇮🇩 Indonesia
 * 🇲🇾 Malaysia
 * 🇲🇲 Myanmar
 * 🇺🇾 Uruguay