Date December 2012Miss Universe 2012, the 61st Miss Universe pageant, will be held in a venue to be announced by the Miss Universe Organization. Leila Lopes from Angola will crown her successor at the end of the event.
Contestants Albania Adrola Dushi 19 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) Rreshen
Angola Marcelina Vahekeni 21 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Ondjiva
Argentina Camila Solórzano Ayusa 23 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) Tucumán
Aruba Liza Nerelyn Helder 22 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Oranjestad
Australia Renae Ayris 20 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Perth
Bahamas Celeste Marshall 19 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Nassau
Belgium Laura Beyne 19 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Brussels
Bolivia Yéssica Mouton 23 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Santa Cruz
Botswana Sheillah Molelekwa 22 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Gaborone
Brazil Gabriela Markus 24 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Teutônia
British Virgin Islands Abigail Hyndman 21 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Road Town
Bulgaria Zhana Yaneva 23 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Blagoevgrad
Canada Sahar Biniaz 26 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Vancouver
Canada Adwoa Yamoah 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Calgary
Cayman Islands Lindsay Japal 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Georgetown
Chile Ana Luisa König 22 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Santiago
China Diana Xu Jidan 22 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Shanghai
Colombia Daniella Álvarez 23 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Barranquilla
Costa Rica Nazareth Cascante 21 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Alajuela
Cote d'Ivoire
Croatia Elizabeta Burg 18 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Vrbanja
Curaçao Monifa Jansen 18 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Willemstad
Cyprus Ioánna Yiannakoú 20 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Paphos
Czech Republic Tereza Chlebovská 21 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Třemešné
Denmark Josefine Hewitt 19 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Esbjerg
Dominican Republic Dulcita Lieggi 23 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Santo Domingo
Ecuador Carolina Aguirre 19 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Guayaquil
El Salvador Ana Yancy Clavel 20 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) San Salvador
Estonia Natalie Korneitsik 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Harjumaa
Ethiopia Helen Getachew 22 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Addis Ababa
Finland Sara Chafak 21 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Helsinki
France Delphine Wespiser 20 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Magstatt-le-Bas
Gabon Marie-Noëlle Ada 21 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Ngounié
Georgia Salome Khomeriki 19 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) Tbilisi
Georgia Tamar Shedania 20 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Tbilisi
Germany Alicia Endemann 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Hamburg
Ghana Gifty Ofori 24 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Accra
Greece Vasiliki Tsirogianni 24 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Thessaloniki
Great Britain Holly Hale 21 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Cardiff
Guam Alyssa Cruz Aguero 24 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Barrigada
Guatemala Laura Godoy 23 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Guatemala City
Guyana Ruqayyah Boyer 20 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) Linden
Haiti Christela Jacques 22 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Port-au-Prince
Honduras Jennifer Denise Andrade 24 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) Tegucigalpa
Hungary Agnes Konkoly 24 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Budapest
India Shilpa Singh 23 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Mumbai
Indonesia Maria Selena 21 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Semarang
Ireland Adrienne Murphy 22 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Dublin
Israel Lina Machola 18 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Haifa
Italy Grazia Maria Pinto 24 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Catania
Jamaica Chantal Zaky 24 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Kingston
Japan Ayako Hara 24 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Sendai
Kazakhstan Aynur Toleuova 18 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Taldykorgan
Korea Lee Sung-hye 19 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Seoul
Kosovo Diana Avdiu 19 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Prishtina
Lebanon Rina Chibany 21 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Beirut
Lithuania Greta Mikalauskyte 19 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Šiauliai
Malaysia Kimberley Leggett 19 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Penang
Mauritius Ameeksha Dilchand 24 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Port Louis
Mexico Karina González 21 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Aguascalientes City
Montenegro Andrea Radonjic 20 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Podgorica
Namibia Tsakana Nkandih 22 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) Windhoek
Netherlands Nathalie den Dekker 22 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) Amsterdam
New Zealand Talia Bennett 23 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) North Harbour
Nicaragua Farah Eslaquit 20 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Masaya
Nigeria Damiete Charles-Granville 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Rivers State
Norway Sara Nicole Andersen 20 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Oslo
Panama Stephanie Vander Werf 25 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Panama City
Paraguay Egni Eckert 24 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Luque
Peru Nicole Faverón 22 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Iquitos
Philippines Janine Tugonon 22 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Balanga
Poland Marcelina Zawadzka 22 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Malbork
Puerto Rico Bodine Koehler 19 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) San Juan
Romania Delia Monica Duca 26 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Brasov
Russia Elizaveta Golovanova 18 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Smolensk
Serbia Bojana Lečić 20 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Belgrade
Singapore Lynn Tan 24 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Singapore
Slovak Republic Ľubica Štepanová 24 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Prievidza
South Africa Melinda Bam 22 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Pretoria
Spain Andrea Huisgen 21 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Barcelona
Sri Lanka Sabrina Herft 25 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Colombo
Sweden Hanni Beronius 22 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Gothenburg
Switzerland Alina Buchschacher 20 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Bern
Tanzania Winfrida Dominic 19 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Dar es Salaam
Thailand Nutpimon Natthayalak 19 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Krabi
Trinidad & Tobago Avionne Mark 22 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) San Juan
Turkey Çağıl Özge Özkul 24 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Ankara
Ukraine Anastasia Chernova 20 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Kharkiv
Uruguay Camila Vezzoso 19 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Artigas
USA Olivia Culpo 20 1.66 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in) Cranston
Venezuela Irene Esser 20 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Río Caribe
Vietnam Luu Thi Diem Huong 22 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Ho Chi Minh City
