Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss World 1986	' - Giselle Jeanne-Marie Laronde
1st runner-up	Denmark - Pia Rosenberg Larsen
2nd runner-up	Austria - Chantal Schreiber
3rd runner-up	New Zealand - Lynda Marie McManus
4th runner-up	Venezuela - María Begoña Juaristi Matteo María Begoña Juaristi María Begoña Juaristi Matteo competed as Miss Zulia in her country's national beauty pageant Miss Venezuela, obtaining the title of Miss World Venezuela....
5th runner-up	United States - Halle Berry Halle Berry Halle Berry is an American actress and a former fashion model. Berry received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and an NAACP Image Award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and won an Academy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming...
6th runner-up	Ecuador - Alicia Gisela Cucalon Macias
Top 15 Semifinalists	Colombia - Karen Sue Wightman Corridor  Costa Rica - Ana Lorena Gonzalez Garcia  Republic of Ireland - Rosemary Elizabeth Thompson  Panama - Maria Lorena Orillac Giraldo  Philippines - Sherry Rose Austria Byrne  Swaziland - Ilana Faye Lapidos  United Kingdom - Alison Louise Slack  Kingdom of Yugoslavia - Maja Kučić

Order of semifinalists

• 1. Austria
• 2. Colombia
• 3. Costa Rica
• 4. Denmark
• 5. Ecuador
• 6. Ireland
• 7. New Zealand
• 8. Panama

• 9. Philippines
• 10. Swaziland
• 11. Trinidad & Tobago
• 12. United Kingdom
• 13. United States
• 14. Venezuela
• 15. Yugoslavia

Order of finalists

• 1. Austria
• 2. Denmark
• 3. Venezuela
• 4. New Zealand
• 5. Trinidad & Tobago
• 6. United States
• 7. Ecuador

Special awards

• Personality: Dominique Martinez (Gibraltar
  Gibraltar
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• Photogenic: Rosemary Elizabeth Thompson (Ireland
  Ireland
  Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
  
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Continental Queens

• Africa: Ilana Faye Lapidos - Swaziland
• Americas: Giselle Jeanne-Marie Laronde - Trinidad & Tobago
• Asia: Sherry Rose Austria Byrne - Philippines
• Europe: Pia Rosenberg Larsen - Denmark
• Oceania: Lynda Marie McManus - New Zealand

77 Contestants

Nation	Contestant	Hometown	Preliminary Score
'	Carmen Rosa Acosta	St. Croix	24
'	Karen Rhona Eartha Knowles	St. John's St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda St John's is the capital and largest city of Antigua and Barbuda, a country located in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea. St John's is located at...	25
Australia	Stephanie Eleanor Andrews	West Leederville	28
Austria	Chantal Schreiber	Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...	34
The Bahamas	Bridgette Strachan	Nassau Nassau, Bahamas Nassau is the capital, largest city, and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The city has a population of 248,948 , 70 percent of the entire population of The Bahamas...	25
Barbados	Roslyn Irene Williams	Saint Michael	24
Belgium	Goedele Maria Liekens	Brussels Brussels Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...	32
Bermuda	Samantha Jayne Morton	Pembroke West	25
Bolivia	Claudia Arevalo Ayala	Cochabamba Cochabamba Cochabamba is a city in central Bolivia, located in a valley bearing the same name in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and is the fourth largest city in Bolivia with an urban population of 608,276 and a metropolitan population of more than 1,000,000 people...	30
Brazil	Roberta Pereira da Silva	Itajai Itajaí Itajaí is a Brazilian city in the state of Santa Catarina.-History:The city was founded on June 15, 1860, but the colonization of Itajaí started in 1658, when the Paulista João Dias D’Arzão arrived in the region. In 1750, Portuguese colonists coming from Madeira and the Azores made this region...	29
British Virgin Islands	Anthonia Brenda Lewis†	Tortola Tortola Tortola is the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands that form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands. Local tradition recounts that Christopher Columbus named it Tortola, meaning "land of the Turtle Dove". Columbus named the island Santa Ana...	25
Canada	Wynne Anita Kroontje	Sarnia Sarnia, Ontario Sarnia is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada . It is the largest city on Lake Huron and is located where the upper Great Lakes empty into the St. Clair River....	24
Cayman Islands	Deborah Elizabeth Cridland	Grand Cayman Grand Cayman Grand Cayman is the largest of the three Cayman Islands and the location of the nation's capital, George Town. In relation to the other two Cayman Islands, it is approximately 75 miles southwest of Little Cayman and 90 miles southwest of Cayman Brac.-Geography:Grand Cayman encompasses 76% of...	24
Chile	Margot Eliza Fuenzalida Montt	Santiago Santiago, Chile Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...	30
Colombia	Karen Sue Wightman Corridor	Barranquilla Barranquilla Barranquilla is an industrial port city and municipality located in northern Colombia, near the Caribbean Sea. The capital of the Atlántico Department, it is the largest industrial city and port in the Colombian Caribbean region with a population of 1,148,506 as of 2005, which makes it Colombia's...	39
Costa Rica	Ana Lorena Gonzalez Garcia	San Jose San José, Costa Rica San José is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica. Located in the Central Valley, San José is the seat of national government, the focal point of political and economic activity, and the major transportation hub of this Central American nation.Founded in 1738 by order of Cabildo de León, San...	33
Cyprus	Maro Andreou	Limassol Limassol Limassol is the second-largest city in Cyprus, with a population of 228,000 . It is the largest city in geographical size, and the biggest municipality on the island. The city is located on Akrotiri Bay, on the island's southern coast and it is the capital of Limassol District.Limassol is the...	24
Denmark	Pia Rosenberg Larsen	Frederiksberg Frederiksberg Frederiksberg Kommune is a municipality on the island of Zealand in Denmark. It surrounded by the city of Copenhagen. The municipality, co-extensive with its seat, covers an area of and has a total population of 98,782 making it the smallest municipality in Denmark area-wise, the fifth most...	37
Dominican Republic	Susan González	Santiago	29
Ecuador	Alicia Gisela Cucalon Macias	Guayaquil Guayaquil Guayaquil , officially Santiago de Guayaquil , is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador,with about 2.3 million inhabitants in the city and nearly 3.1 million in the metropolitan area, as well as that nation's main port...	38
El Salvador	Nadine Monique Jeanpierre Gutierrez	San Salvador San Salvador The city of San Salvador the capital and largest city of El Salvador, which has been designated a Gamma World City. Its complete name is La Ciudad de Gran San Salvador...	28
Finland	Satu Riita Alaharja	Seinäjoki Seinäjoki Seinäjoki is a city located in Southern Ostrobothnia, Finland. Seinäjoki originated around the Östermyra bruk iron and gunpowder factories founded in 1798. Seinäjoki became a municipality in 1868, market town in 1931 and town in 1960...	32
Early Modern France	Catherine Carew	Guadeloupe Guadeloupe Guadeloupe is an archipelago located in the Leeward Islands, in the Lesser Antilles, with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres and a population of 400,000. It is the first overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. As with the other overseas departments, Guadeloupe...	31
The Gambia	Rose Marie Eunson	Banjul Banjul -Transport:Ferries sail from Banjul to Barra. The city is served by the Banjul International Airport. Banjul is on the Trans–West African Coastal Highway connecting it to Dakar and Bissau, and will eventually provide a paved highway link to 11 other nations of ECOWAS.Banjul International Airport...	26
Germany	Dagmar Schulz	Duisburg Duisburg - History :A legend recorded by Johannes Aventinus holds that Duisburg, was built by the eponymous Tuisto, mythical progenitor of Germans, ca. 2395 BC...	25
Gibraltar	Dominique Martinez	Gibraltar Gibraltar Gibraltar is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean. A peninsula with an area of , it has a northern border with Andalusia, Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the region...	33
Greece	Anna Kechagia	Athens Athens Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...	26
Guam	Valerie Jean Flores	Agana	24
Guatemala	Sonia Schoenstedt	Guatemala City Guatemala City Guatemala City , is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Guatemala and Central America...	25
'	Janny Tervelde	Steenbergen Steenbergen Steenbergen can mean:*Steenbergen, a town and municipality in North Brabant, the Netherlands*Steenbergen , a hamlet in the south of Drenthe, the Netherlands*Steenbergen , a hamlet in the north of Drenthe, the Netherlands...	24
Honduras	Nilcer Maria Viscovich Babien	San Pedro Sula San Pedro Sula San Pedro Sula is a city in Honduras. It is located in the northwest corner of the country, in the Valle de Sula , about 60 km south of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean. With an estimated population of 638,259 people in the main municipality, and 802,598 in its metro area , it is the second...	25
'	May Ng Yuen-Fong	Kowloon Bay Kowloon Kowloon is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. It is bordered by the Lei Yue Mun strait in the east, Mei Foo Sun Chuen and Stonecutter's Island in the west, Tate's Cairn and Lion Rock in the north, and Victoria Harbour in the south. It had a population of...	26
Iceland	Gigja Birgisdóttir	Akureyri Akureyri Akureyri is a town in northern Iceland. It is Iceland's second largest urban area and fourth largest municipality ....	26
India Miss India Miss India or Femina Miss India is a national beauty pageant in India, one of the most recognized contests to produce international beauty queens in the 90s, which annually selects three winners to compete globally. It is organized by Femina, a women's magazine published by Bennett, Coleman & Co...	Maureen Mary Lestourgeon	Bombay Mumbai Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...	28
Republic of Ireland	Rosemary Elizabeth Thompson	Lismore Lismore, County Waterford Lismore is a town in County Waterford, Ireland. It is located where the N72 road crosses the River Blackwater.-History:It was founded by Saint Mochuda, also known as Saint Carthage. In the 7th century, Lismore was the site of the well-known Lismore Abbey. It is also home to Lismore Castle, the...	36
Isle of Man	Sarah Therese Craig	Ballaugh Ballaugh Ballaugh is a small village on the Isle of Man in the parish of the same name. It is the only village in the parish.-Village:The village is situated on the main A3 Castletown to Ramsey road about seven miles west of Ramsey...	24
Israel	Osnat Moas	Motzkin	29
Italy	Enrica Patane	Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...	30
Jamaica	Lisa Michelle Mahfood	Kingston Kingston, Jamaica Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...	31
Japan	Mutsumi Sugimura	Tokyo Tokyo , ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...	24
Kenya	Patricia Maingi	Nairobi Nairobi Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi County. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters". However, it is popularly known as the "Green City in the Sun" and is...	25
'	An Jeung-mi	Seoul Seoul Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...	28
Lebanon	Mireille Abi Fares	Beirut Beirut Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...	24
Luxembourg	Martine Christine Georgette Pilot	Erpeldange Erpeldange Erpeldange is a commune and small town in north-eastern Luxembourg. It lies along the river Sauer, between Ettelbruck and Diekirch. It is part of the canton of Diekirch, which is part of the district of Diekirch....	24
Macau	Sai (Patricia) Cheong	Macau Macau Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...	31
Malaysia Miss Malaysia Miss Malaysia represents Malaysia in two of the major international pageants.Miss Universe is a beauty pageant run by the New York-based partnership between NBC and Donald Trump....	Joan Martha Cardoza	Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...	29
Malta	Andrea Josephine Licari	Floriana Floriana Floriana is a town in Malta, just outside the capital city Valletta. Floriana is the birthplace of many famous Maltese, amongst which the composer of the national anthem, 'L-Innu Malti', Robert Samut; former Bishop of Malta Dom Mauro Caruana, the poet Oliver Friggieri, and Swedish Idol winner...	26
Mauritius	Michelle Sylvie Geraldine Pastor	Quatre Bornes Quatre Bornes Quatre Bornes is a town in Mauritius, located in the Upper Plaines Wilhems District, between the towns of Rose Hill and Vacoas-Phoenix. Covering an area of over twenty thousand square kilometres, Quatre Bornes is linked by roads to the north, east, south and west of Mauritius...	24
Mexico Miss Mexico Miss Mexico may refer to:*Nuestra Belleza México , beauty pageant that chooses Mexico's representatives to Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss International, among others....	Maria de la Luz Velasco Feliz	Mexicali Mexicali Mexicali is the capital of the State of Baja California, seat of the Municipality of Mexicali, and 2nd largest city in Baja California. The City of Mexicali has a population of 689,775, according to the 2010 census, while the population of the entire metropolitan area reaches 936,826.The city...	28
New Zealand New Zealand at Miss World New Zealand has contested 46 Miss World pageants since that pageant's inception in 1951. No New Zealander has won the Miss World title, although two have placed first runner-up....	Lynda Marie McManus	Christchurch Christchurch Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...	44
Norway Miss Norway Miss Norway is the name used to identify Norway's representatives to international beauty pageants.-History:Currently, Norway has two national beauty pageants:...	Inger Louise Berg	Bodø Bodø is a city and a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Salten region.The city of Bodø was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 . Bodin was merged with Bodø on 1 January 1968. Skjerstad was merged with Bodø on 1 January 2005...	25
Panama	Maria Lorena Orillac Giraldo	Panama City Panama City Panama is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a population of 880,691, with a total metro population of 1,272,672, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of the same name. The city is the political and administrative center of the...	33
Paraguay	Veronica America Angulo Ahcinelli	Asuncion Asunción Asunción is the capital and largest city of Paraguay.The "Ciudad de Asunción" is an autonomous capital district not part of any department. The metropolitan area, called Gran Asunción, includes the cities of San Lorenzo, Fernando de la Mora, Lambaré, Luque, Mariano Roque Alonso, Ñemby, San...	31
Peru	Patricia Anne-Marie Kuypers Espejo	Lima Lima Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...	26
Philippines Binibining Pilipinas Binibining Pilipinas is the organization responsible for sponsoring the annual national beauty pageant which selects representatives of the Philippines to Miss Universe and Miss International, among others.-History:...	Sherry Rose Austria Byrne	Manila Manila Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...	32
Poland	Renata Fatla	Bielsko-Biała Bielsko-Biała -Economy and Industry:Nowadays Bielsko-Biała is one of the best-developed parts of Poland. It was ranked 2nd best city for business in that country by Forbes. About 5% of people are unemployed . Bielsko-Biała is famous for its textile, machine-building, and especially automotive industry...	29
Portugal	Elsa Maria Rodrigues	Lisbon Lisbon Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...	31
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Jacqueline Petronella Heyliger	Basseterre Basseterre Basseterre , estimated population 15,500 in 2000, is the capital of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the West Indies. Geographically, the Basseterre port is located at , on the south western coast of Saint Kitts Island, and it is one of the chief commercial depots of the Leeward Islands...	24
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Mandy Haydock	Kingstown Kingstown Kingstown is the chief port of Saint Vincent, and the capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. With a population of 25,418 Kingstown is a centre for the island's agricultural industry and a port of entry for tourists...	24
Sierra Leone	Alice Matta Fefegula	Bo Bo, Sierra Leone Bo is the second largest city in Sierra Leone and the largest city in the Southern Province. It lies about 164 miles south-east of Freetown and had a population 149,957 in the 2004 census, with a current estimate is 231,494 . The city serve as the capital and administrative center of Bo District...	24
Singapore	Michelle Loh Yeh Huey	Bedok Bedok Bedok is a neighbourhood in the eastern part of Singapore. Bedok New Town is the fifth Housing and Development Board new town; its development started in April 1973 and continued over some 15 years....	25
Spain	Remedios Cervantes Montoya	Malaga Málaga Málaga is a city and a municipality in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Spain. With a population of 568,507 in 2010, it is the second most populous city of Andalusia and the sixth largest in Spain. This is the southernmost large city in Europe...	32
Sri Lanka	Indira Gunaratne	Colombo Colombo Colombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital of Sri Lanka. Colombo is often referred to as the capital of the country, since Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is a satellite city of Colombo...	24
Swaziland	Ilana Faye Lapidos	Manzini	26
Sweden	Elizabeth Marita Ulvan	Motala Motala Motala is a locality and the seat of Motala Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 29,798 inhabitants in 2005. It is the third largest city of Östergötland, following Linköping and Norrköping...	33
Switzerland	Renate Walther	Bargen	25
Thailand	Sangravee as-Savarak	Bangkok Bangkok Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...	24
Tonga	Kerry Cowley	Nuku'alofa Nuku'alofa Nukualofa is the capital of the Kingdom of Tonga. It is located on the north coast of the island of Tongatapu, in the southern most island group of Tonga.-Mythological origins:...	24
'	Giselle Jeanne-Marie LaRonde	Maraval Maraval Maraval is one of the northern suburbs of Trinidad's capital, Port of Spain a valley in northern Trinidad in Trinidad and Tobago. It is situated at the bottom of the hills of Paramin and located east of the Diego Martin valley to which it is connected directly by Morne Coco Road, and west of Santa...	36
Turkey	Meltem Doganay	Ankara Ankara Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....	26
Turks and Caicos Islands	Carmelita Louise Ariza	Grand Turk Grand Turk Grand Turk may refer to:* Grand Turk * Grand Turk Island* Cem, a Turkish prince made famous by his extended captivity in the West* an informal western name for the Great Sultan of the Turkish Ottoman dynasty...	26
United Kingdom	Alison Louise Slack	Sheffield Sheffield Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...	40
United States Miss USA The Miss USA beauty contest has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA...	Halle Berry Halle Berry Halle Berry is an American actress and a former fashion model. Berry received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and an NAACP Image Award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and won an Academy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming...	Oakwood Oakwood, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Oakwood is a village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,667 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Oakwood is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...	42
Uruguay	Alexandra Maria Goldenthal	Montevideo Montevideo Montevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...	25
Venezuela Miss Venezuela The Miss Venezuela contest is the national beauty pageant of Venezuela and has been held since 1952. It is responsible for selecting the country's representatives to the Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss Earth and Miss International pageants .Under the direction of Osmel Sousa, Venezuela has...	María Begoña Juaristi Matteo María Begoña Juaristi María Begoña Juaristi Matteo competed as Miss Zulia in her country's national beauty pageant Miss Venezuela, obtaining the title of Miss World Venezuela....	Maracaibo Maracaibo Maracaibo is a city and municipality located in northwestern Venezuela off the western coast of the Lake Maracaibo. It is the second-largest city in the country after the national capital Caracas and the capital of Zulia state...	46
Samoa	Kasileta Joan Gabriel	Apia	24
Kingdom of Yugoslavia	Maja Kučić	Split Split (city) Split is a Mediterranean city on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea, centered around the ancient Roman Palace of the Emperor Diocletian and its wide port bay. With a population of 178,192 citizens, and a metropolitan area numbering up to 467,899, Split is by far the largest Dalmatian city and...	34

Returning countries and debuts

• Antigua, British Virgin Islands, Macau, and Sierra Leone competed in Miss World for the first time.
• Mauritius last competed in 1980
  Miss World 1980
  Miss World 1980, the 30th Miss World pageant, was held on November 13, 1980 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Gabriella Brum from Germany...
  
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• Tonga, and Turkey last competed in 1983
  Miss World 1983
  Miss World 1983, the 33rd Miss World pageant was held on November 17, 1983 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Sarah-Jane Hutt from the United Kingdom...
  
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• Honduras last competed in 1984
  Miss World 1984
  The 34th Miss World Pageant was held on 15 November 1984 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Astrid Carolina Herrera Irrazabal from Venezuela. The 1st and 2nd runner-ups were Constance Ellen Fitzpatrick from Canada, and Lou-Anne Caroline Ronchi from Australia. It was hosted by...
  
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Withdrawals and nations not competing

• Aruba, and Puerto Rico lost its Miss World franchise due to financial assistance issues.

Other notes

• British Virgin Islands, Anthonia Brenda Lewis, died of cancer in 2000.
• Preliminary swimsuits in Miss World 1986 were held in Macau.
• Ireland won the Miss Photogenic award for the third time.
• The Parade of Nations was held outside of the main stage for the first time, which was shot in the Ruins of St. Paul's, Macau
  Macau
  Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...
  
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• 10 out of 15 countries which made it into the semifinals, were not in the semifinals last year: Ecuador (1970), Costa Rica (1978), Panama (1979), Denmark, Philippines, and Trinidad & Tobago (1982), Yugoslavia (1983), and Austria, and Colombia (1984). Swaziland had made into the semi-finals for the first time since its debut in 1975.
• United States, Halle Berry
  Halle Berry
  Halle Berry is an American actress and a former fashion model. Berry received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and an NAACP Image Award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and won an Academy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming...
  
  , became a successful actress and an Oscar awardee.

External sources

• Pageantopolis
• Jimmy's Pageant Page