Overview
Miss Universe 2023 will be the 72nd Miss Universe pageant, to be held at the National Gymnasium in San Salvador, El Salvador on 18 November 2023. R'Bonney Gabriel of the United States will crown her successor at the end of the event.
Background
Location and date
On 14 January 2023 during the Miss Universe 2022 pageant Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele announced that this edition will be held in El Salvador in late 2023. On 27 July 2023 the Miss Universe Organization announced that the pageant will happen on 18 November 2023. The last time that the country hosted the pageant was in 1975.
Selection of participants
Contestants from eighty-six countries and territories have been selected to compete. Five of these delegates were appointed to the position after being runners-up in their national pageant, or being chosen through a casting process.
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