List of beauty pageants
This is an international list of beauty pageants from around the world. A beauty pageant or beauty contest is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants, although some contests have evolved to also incorporate personality, intelligence, talent, and answers to judges' questions as judged criteria. The term almost invariably refers only to contests for women and girls such as the Big Four international beauty pageants.[1][2][3] Similar events for men or boys are usually called by other names and are more likely to be bodybuilding contests.
Women's pageants
International pageants
Major international pageants
The following is the list of the world's four major beauty contests in alphabetical order (referred to as the Big Four):[1][2][3][4][5]
Other international pageants
List of minor international pageants in alphabetical order:
- Miss Asia Pacific World
- Miss Chinese International Pageant
- Miss Global
- Mrs Globe
- Miss Globe International
- Miss Grand International
- Miss Heritage
- Miss Model of the World
- Miss Teenager Universal
- Miss Teen International
- Miss Tourism International
- Mrs. International
- Mrs. Universe
- Top Model of the World
- World Miss University
- World Beauty Queen
- Exquisite International
Continental and regional pageants
Former pageants
- International Pageant of Pulchritude (1926-1935)
Africa
Americas
North America
- Miss USA
- Miss Teen USA
- Miss America
- Miss America's Outstanding Teen
- Miss United States
- Miss U.S. International
- Miss World America
- Miss Earth United States
- Distinguished Young Women
- Miss Hawaiian Tropic USA
- Hawaiian Tropic Teen Miss
- Miss Black America
- Miss Black USA Pageant
- Miss Chinatown USA
- Miss Brasil USA
- Miss Latina US
- Miss Teen US Latina
- Miss Asian America
- Miss Viet Nam Continents
- Mrs. America
- Ms. America
- Miss Arab USA
- Miss Teenage America
- Miss Teen America
- National Sweetheart
Central America
Caribbean
South America
Asia
- Afghanistan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Cambodia
- China
- Chinese Taipei
- Hong Kong
- India
- Femina Miss India
- Miss Diva
- Miss Earth India
- I Am She - Miss India
- Femina Miss India Bangalore
- Femina Miss India Delhi
- Femina Look of the Year
- India Exquisite Pageant
- Elite Model Look India
- Miss India Worldwide India
- Miss Himalaya Pageant
- Gladrags Megamodel Contest
- Miss India South
- Bharat Sundari
- Miss Tibet
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Israel
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Korea
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lebanon
- Macau
- Malaysia
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
- Thailand
- Tibet
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
Australasia
Oceania
Europe
- Albania
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Kosovo
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Macedonia
- Malta
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
No longer existing states
- Serbia and Montenegro (before 2006)
- Yugoslavia (before 2002)
- USSR (before 1991)
- Hong Kong(before 2016)
Men's pageants
International pageants
Continental and regional pageants
National pageants
Africa
Americas
North America
Central America
Caribbean
South America
Asia
Europe
Other pageants
References
- 1 2 "Miss Earth 2004 beauty pageant". China Daily. Reuters. 2004-10-25. Retrieved 2007-10-23.
- 1 2 "Brazil's Miss World finalist has her hands and feet amputated". English.pravda.ru. 22 January 2009. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
- 1 2 Enriquez, Amee (2 February 2014). "Philippines: How to make a beauty queen". BBC News. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
- ↑ "24-year-old former Tian Zhizi elected as "Miss Japan 2011"". Business Times (Hong Kong). 4 July 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
- ↑ "Beauty with scandals". The Standard. 21 July 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2011.