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Miss Universe 2010
Date	August, 2010
Presenters	TBA
Venue	TBA
Broadcaster	NBC and Telemundo
Entrants	80+
Debuts	Azerbaijan
Withdrawals	Cayman Islands
Returns	Antigua & Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Kazakhstan, Trinidad & Tobago

Miss Universe 2010, the 59th Miss Universe pageant. Stefanía Fernández from Venezuela, Miss Universe 2009, will crown her successor at the end of this event. More than 80 countries and territories will compete for the title and the pageant will broadcast live on NBC and Telemundo.

Expected contestants

As of April 4, 2010, 37 delegates have been selected.

Country	Contestant	Age	Height (cm)	Height (ft)	Hometown
Angola	Jurema Ferraz	19	180	5'11"	Namibe
Aruba	Priscilla Lee	21	183	6'0"	Oranjestad
Belgium	Cilou Annys	19	178	5'10	Bruges
Bolivia	Claudia Arce	18	173	5'8"	Sucre
British Virgin Islands	Josephina Nuñez	21	175	5'9"	Road Town
Colombia	Natalia Navarro	22	179	5'10"	Barranquilla
Croatia	Lana Obad	21	173	5'8"	Zagreb
Curaçao	Safira de Wit	20	181	5'11"	Willemstad
Cyprus	Demetra Olympiou	22	173	5'8"	Larnaca
Czech Republic	Jitka Válková	18	169	5'6"	Třebíč
Ecuador	Lady Mina	23	170	5'7"	Guayaquil
Finland	Viivi Pumpanen	21	167	5'6"	Vantaa
France	Malika Ménard	22	176	5'9"	Caen
Georgia	Nanuka Gogichaishvili	20	177	5'10"	Tbilisi
Indonesia	Qory Sandioriva	18	173	5'8"	Aceh
Israel	Bat-El Jobi	21	172	5'7"	Afula
Japan	Maiko Itai	25	173	5'8"	Ōita
Kazakhstan	Symbat Madyarova	18	173	5'8"	Almaty
Korea	Kim Joo-ri	21	171	5'7"	Seoul
Mauritius	Dalysha Doorga	22	173	5'8"	Goodlands
Mexico	Jimena Navarrete	22	174	5'8"	Guadalajara
Montenegro	Nikolina Lončar	22	175	5'9"	Pljevlja
Nicaragua	Scharllette Allen	18	180	5'11"	Bluefields
Philippines	Maria Venus Raj	21	173	5'9
Poland	Maria Nowakowska	23	182	5'11"	Legnica
Puerto Rico	Mariana Vicente	21	173	5'8"	Rio Grande
Russia	Irina Antonenko	18	178	5'10"	Yekaterinburg
Serbia	Lidija Kocić	22	180	5'11"	Belgrade
Slovak Republic	Anna Amenová	25	173	5'8"	Bratislava
South Africa	Nicole Flint	21	172	5'7"	Pretoria
Switzerland	Linda Fäh	22	177	5'10"	Benken
Thailand	Fontip Watcharatrakul	19	170	5'7"	Samut Prakan
Trinidad & Tobago	La Toya Woods	24	178	5'10"	Couva
Turkey	Serenay Sarikaya	18	175	5'9"	Istanbul
Ukraine	Anna Poslavskaya	22	180	5'11"	Nova Kakhovka
Uruguay	Stephany Ortega	20	173	5'8"	Montevideo
Venezuela	Marelisa Gibson	21	178	5'10"	Caracas

Upcoming national pageants

National pageants scheduled are:

Argentina - May 23, 2010
Australia - June 6, 2010
Azerbaijan - May 23, 2010
Bahamas - May 9, 2010
Brazil - May 8, 2010
Bulgaria - April 25, 2010
Canada - June 14, 2010
Costa Rica - April 16, 2010
Dominican Republic - April 17, 2010
Great Britain - May 2, 2010
Guadeloupe - July 17, 2010
Guatemala - April 24, 2010
Hungary - May 13, 2010

Iceland - May 28, 2010
India - May 28, 2010
Kosovo - May 22, 2010
Lebanon - July 3, 2010
Malaysia - May 15, 2010
Panama - May 21, 2010
Peru - May 22, 2010
Romania - July 9, 2010
Singapore - May 28, 2010
Sweden - June 4, 2010
Tanzania - May 29, 2010
USA - May 16, 2010
Zambia - May 1, 2010

Venue

Recent reports indicate that the contest could end up in the Bahamas, or Las Vegas (Nevada, USA) if all the other bids fail.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Singapore, Mar del Plata (Argentina), Mallorca (Spain), and Macau presented proposals to host the 2010 contest.
Aruba was bidding, but authorities decided to change for 2011 or 2012.
Santa Cruz, Bolivia also wanted to host the pageant but, after a number of meetings, they decided to withdraw the bid on March 13, stating that many of the covenants in the proposed contract were in conflict with the new Bolivian constitution.
Croatia presented a bid, first in 2009 and then in 2010, both unsuccessful due to economical problems. On Jan 24th, Croatia announced its withdrawal from the race to host the contest.

National Pageant Notes

Debuting countries and territories

Azerbaijan will compete in Miss Universe for the first time.

Returning countries and territories

Guadeloupe last competed in 1984.
British Virgin Islands last competed in 2002.
Antigua & Barbuda, Kazakhstan, Trinidad & Tobago last competed in 2008.

Withdraws

Cayman Islands - On September 8, 2009, it was announced that the Miss Cayman Islands 2009 contest would not take place due to lack of funding and sponsorship. Since the winner of the said contest also competes in Miss World, there was no Caymanian representative to Miss World 2009 either.

Contestant Notes

Aruba: Priscilla Lee is the sister of Zizi Lee, 1st Runner-up and Miss World Caribbean at Miss World 2001.
Bolivia: Claudia Arce will compete in Miss Earth 2010 in Vietnam in November. .
Iceland: Magdalena Dubik, Miss Iceland 2009, withdrew from the Miss Universe 2010 pageant because she will participate in a contest of classical music in August 2, where the Miss Iceland 2010 will take place.
Korea: Kim Joo-ri finished as a Top 16 semi-finalist and was named the Queen of Asia & Oceania at Miss World 2009.
Nicaragua: Scharllette Allen is the first black woman to win the national crown of Miss Nicaragua.
Philippines: Maria Venus Raj, the winner of Binibining Pilipinas Universe 2010 was dethroned due to "inconsistencies" between her birth certificate and the personal account of her birth and for a few days was replaced by Helen Nicolette Henson, the 2nd runner-up of the same pageant. On April 10, 2010, the Binibining Pilipinas Charities, Inc. (BPCI) reversed their decision allowing Raj to reclaim her title pending correction of the minor technicalities or clerical error contained on her birth record and obtainment of a valid Philippine passport.

External links

Official Site

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Miss Universe participant countries and territories

Active
(1952–present)

Africa	Angola Botswana Cameroon Cote d'Ivoire Democratic Republic of the Congo Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Guinea Kenya Mauritius Namibia Nigeria Senegal Somalia South Africa Tanzania Zambia Zimbabwe
Americas	Argentina Aruba Bahamas Belize Bolivia Bonaire Brazil British Virgin Islands Canada Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Curaçao Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guadeloupe Guatemala Guyana Honduras Jamaica Martinique Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Saint Lucia Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Uruguay United States US Virgin Islands Venezuela
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Oceania	Australia Fiji New Zealand Samoa

Inactive since 2024 (under JKN Metaverse Inc.)

Africa	Benin (1962) Ethiopia (2017) Eswatini (1994) Gabon (2015) Gambia (1986) Ghana (2022) Lesotho (1978) Liberia (1977) Madagascar (1961) Morocco (2021) Réunion (1986) Seychelles (2022) Sierra Leone (2019) Tunisia (1971)
Americas	Antigua and Barbuda (2008) Barbados (2020) Bermuda (1997) Dominica (1985) French Guiana (1984) Greenland (1990) Grenada (1964) Haiti (2022) Saint Kitts and Nevis (1981) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2006) Sint Maarten (2006)
Asia	Bhutan (2022) Chinese Taipei (2004) Iraq (2017) Jordan (1960)
Europe	Austria (2017) Azerbaijan (2013) Georgia (2019) Lithuania (2019) Luxembourg (1994) Slovenia (2017) Sweden (2021)
Oceania	American Samoa (1978) Cook Islands (1999) Guam (2019) New Caledonia (1982) Northern Marianas (2006) Papua New Guinea (1986) Tahiti (1985) Vanuatu (1978)

Inactive territories and dependencies
(1952–2006)

Constituent countries of Great Britain (began 1992, using Great Britain sash at Miss Universe)	England (1955–1990) Scotland (1961–1990) Wales (1961–1990)
Prefecture of Japan	Okinawa (1963–1968)
Bantustans of South Africa	Bophuthatswana (1979) Transkei (1979–1983)
States of the United States	Alaska (1952–1958) Hawaii (1952–1959)
Former entities (1952–2006)	Commonwealth of Independent States (1992) Czechoslovakia (1970–1992) Micronesia (1975) Southern Rhodesia (1961) Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006) Soviet Union (1990–1991) West Indies (1954–1958) Yugoslavia (1968–2002)

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