Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss World 1990	United States - Gina Tolleson Gina Tolleson Gina Marie Tolleson is a model and the second Miss World titleholder from the United States.-Miss World:...
1st Runner-up	Republic of Ireland - Siobhan McClafferty
2nd Runner-up	Venezuela - Sharon Luengo Sharon Luengo Sharon Raquel Luengo González competed as Miss Costa Oriental in her country's national beauty pageant Miss Venezuela, obtaining the Photogenic award and the title of Miss World Venezuela....
Top 5	Finland - Nina Björkfelt  New Zealand - Adele Kenny
Top 10	Aruba - Gwendolyne Kwidama ' - Gabrielle Stap  Jamaica - Erica Aquart  Poland - Ewa Szymczak  Turkey - Jülide Ateş

Special awards

Award	Contestant
Miss Personality	Nigeria - Sabina Umeh
Most Photogenic	Venezuela - Sharon Luengo Sharon Luengo Sharon Raquel Luengo González competed as Miss Costa Oriental in her country's national beauty pageant Miss Venezuela, obtaining the Photogenic award and the title of Miss World Venezuela....

Continental Queens

Continent	Contestant
Africa Africa Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...	Kenya - Aisha Lieberg
Americas Americas The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...	United States - Gina Tolleson Gina Tolleson Gina Marie Tolleson is a model and the second Miss World titleholder from the United States.-Miss World:...
Asia Asia Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...  & Oceania Oceania Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...	New Zealand - Adele Kenny
Caribbean Caribbean The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...	Jamaica - Erica Aquart
Europe Europe Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...	Republic of Ireland - Siobhan McClafferty

Order of announcements

1. Holland
2. Turkey
3. Ireland
4. Jamaica
5. Venezuela

 6. Finland

 7. New Zealand

 8. United States of America

 9. Aruba

10. Poland

1. Finland
2. Ireland
3. New Zealand
4. United States of America
5. Venezuela

Contestants

Nation	Contestant	Age	Hometown	Preliminary Score
'	Keima Akintobi	17	Saint Thomas Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands Saint Thomas is an island in the Caribbean Sea and with the islands of Saint John, Saint Croix, and Water Island a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands , an unincorporated territory of the United States. Located on the island is the territorial capital and port of...	37
Argentina	Romina Rosales	19	Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...	30
Aruba	Gwendolyne Charlotte Kwidama	20	Sint Nicolaas	41
Australia	Karina Brown	19	Sydney Sydney Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...	39
Austria	Carina Friedberger	20	Eisenerz Eisenerz Eisenerz is a market place and old mining town in Styria, Austria, . N.W. of Graz by rail. Pop. 6,400. It is situated in the deep Erzbach Valley, dominated on the east by the Pfaffenstein , on the west by the Kaiserschild , and on the south by the Erzberg...	33
The Bahamas	Lisa Gizelle Strachan	19	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...	33
Barbados	Cheryl Jean Brewster	22	Saint Philip	30
Belgium	Katia Alens	23	Antwerp	33
Belize	Ysela Antonia Zabaneh	20	Independence	30
Bolivia	Daniela Domínguez	17	Tarija Tarija, Bolivia Tarija or San Bernardo de la Frontera de Tarixa is a city in southern Bolivia. Founded in 1574, Tarija is both the capital and largest city within the Tarija Department, with an airport offering regular service to primary Bolivian cities, as well as a regional bus terminal with domestic and...	31
Brazil	Karla Cristina Kwiatkowski	20	Curitiba Curitiba Curitiba is the capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná. It is the largest city with the biggest economy of both Paraná and southern Brazil. The population of Curitiba numbers approximately 1.75 million people and the latest GDP figures for the city surpass US$61 billion according to...	35
British Virgin Islands	Suzanne Spencer	22	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...	33
Bulgaria	Violeta Galabova	18	Sofia Sofia Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...	31
Canada	Natasha Palewandrem	22	Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...	35
Cayman Islands	Bethea Michelle Christian	17	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...	30
Chile	María Isabel Jara Pizarro	21	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...	35
Colombia	Angela Mercedes Mariño Ortiz	19	Bogotá Bogotá Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...	38
Cook Islands	Angela Manarang	23	Rarotonga Rarotonga Rarotonga is the most populous island of the Cook Islands, with a population of 14,153 , out of the country's total population of 19,569.The Cook Islands' Parliament buildings and international airport are on Rarotonga...	30
Costa Rica	Andrea Murillo Fallas	20	Heredia Heredia, Costa Rica Heredia is a city located in the Heredia province of Costa Rica and is the capital of that province. It is currently undergoing a rapid process of industrialization and is located 10 kilometers north of the country's capital, San José....	31
Curaçao	Jacqueline Nelleke Josien Krijger	23	Willemstad Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles Willemstad is the capital city of Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea that forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Formerly the capital of the Netherlands Antilles prior to its dissolution in 2010, it has an estimated population of 140,000. The historic centre of...	33
Cyprus	Emilia Groutidou	18	Nicosia Nicosia Nicosia from , known locally as Lefkosia , is the capital and largest city in Cyprus, as well as its main business center. Nicosia is the only divided capital in the world, with the southern and the northern portions divided by a Green Line...	30
Czechoslovakia	Andrea Roskovcová	19	Březnice Breznice (Príbram District) ----Březnice is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 3,700 inhabitants.Villages Bor, Dobrá Voda, Martinice, Přední Poříčí and Zadní Poříčí are administrative parts of Březnice....	33
Denmark	Charlotte Christiansen	23	Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...	35
Dominican Republic	Brenda Marte Lajara	21	Santo Domingo Santo Domingo Santo Domingo, known officially as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population was 2,084,852 in 2003, and estimated at 3,294,385 in 2010. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River...	30
Egypt	Dalia El Behery Dalia El Behery Dalia El Behery , Egyptian actress. She won the 1990 title of Miss Egypt, also won 27 place the Miss Universe pageant in Los Angeles in the same year.-Biography:...	20	Cairo Cairo Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...	31
El Salvador	María Elena Henríquez	20	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...	31
Finland	Nina Björkfelt	22	Turku Turku Turku is a city situated on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River. It is located in the region of Finland Proper. It is believed that Turku came into existence during the end of the 13th century which makes it the oldest city in Finland...	39
Early Modern France	Gaëlle Voiry	21	Lyon Lyon Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....	30
Germany	Christiane Stocker	23	Darmstadt Darmstadt Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...	39
Ghana	Dela Tamakole	23	Accra Accra Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, with an urban population of 1,658,937 according to the 2000 census. Accra is also the capital of the Greater Accra Region and of the Accra Metropolitan District, with which it is coterminous...	30
Gibraltar	Sarah Yeats	18	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	Sophia Lafkioti	19	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...	31
Guam	Mary Esteban	22	Dededo Dededo, Guam Dededo is the most populated village of the United States territory of Guam. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Dededo's population was just under 45,000 in 2010. The village is located on the coral plateau of Northern Guam.- Etymology :...	32
Guatemala	María del Rosario Pérez Aguilar	25	Guatemala City Guatemala City Guatemala City , is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Guatemala and Central America...	30
'	Gabrielle Stap	21	The Hague The Hague The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...	46
Honduras	Claudia Bendaña McCausland	21	Tegucigalpa Tegucigalpa Tegucigalpa , and commonly referred as Tegus , is the capital of Honduras and seat of government of the Republic, along with its twin sister Comayagüela. Founded on September 29, 1578 by the Spanish, it became the country's capital on October 30, 1880 under President Marco Aurelio Soto...	30
'	Elaine da Silva	18	Sai Kung Sai Kung Town Sai Kung Town or simply Sai Kung is a town on Sai Kung Peninsula, facing the Sai Kung Hoi , part of Sai Kung District in the New Territories, Hong Kong...	31
Hungary	Kinga Czuczor Kinga Czuczor Kinga Czuczor, born in Czechoslovakia, is a Hungarian beauty pageant contestant. She is notable for winning the title of “Miss Hungary”. Czuczor went on to represent Hungary in the Miss World pageant which was held on November 8, 1990 in the London Palladium...	20	Budapest Budapest Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...	32
Iceland	Ásta Sigríður Einarsdóttir	19	Garðabær Garðabær Garðabær is a municipality in the Greater Reykjavík area of Iceland.As of January 2011, its population was 10,909....	30
India	Naveeda Medhi	18	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...	35
Republic of Ireland	Siobhan McClafferty	20	Dublin	43
Israel	Ariela Tessler	18	Tel Aviv Tel Aviv Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...	30
Italy	Cristina Gavagnin	19	Trieste Trieste Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city...	32
Jamaica	Erica Aquart	20	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...	42
Japan	Tomoko Iwasaki	20	Shizuoka Shizuoka, Shizuoka is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and the prefecture's second-largest city in terms of both population and area. It became one of Japan's 19 "designated cities" in 2005.-Geography:...	30
Kenya	Aisha Wawira Lieberg	19	Embu Embu, Kenya Embu is a town located approximately northeast of Nairobi towards Mount Kenya. Embu serves as the provincial headquarters of Eastern Province in Kenya and is also the district headquarters of Embu District. Located on the southeastern slopes of Mount Kenya, the town of Embu has a population of...	32
'	Ko Hyeon-jeong Ko Hyeon-jeong -Biography:Like the characters she plays, Ko Hyun-jung has had a life filled with drama.A Dongguk University Performing Arts major, she got her start as a runner-up in the Miss Korea pageant in 1989, which launched her acting career. Her big break came in the 1995 SBS drama Sandglass...	19	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...	35
'	Velga Bražņevica	23	Riga Riga Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...	38
Luxembourg	Bea Jarzyńska	18	Luxembourg City Luxembourg (city) The city of Luxembourg , also known as Luxembourg City , is a commune with city status, and the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It is located at the confluence of the Alzette and Pétrusse Rivers in southern Luxembourg...	30
Macau	Alexandra Paula Costa Mendes	19	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...	30
Madagascar	Ellys Raza	20	Antananarivo Antananarivo Antananarivo , formerly Tananarive , is the capital and largest city in Madagascar. It is also known by its French colonial shorthand form Tana....	30
Malta	Karen Demicoli	18	Żejtun Zejtun Żejtun is a medium sized town in the south of Malta. Żejtun holds the title of Città Beland, which was bestowed by Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim, Grandmaster of Knights of Malta in 1797, Beland being his mother's surname....	30
Mauritius	Marie Desirée Audrey Pitchen	23	Central Flacq Centre de Flacq Centre de Flacq is a town and the capital of the district of Flacq in east-central Mauritius. It is located at an altitude of 154 feet . Flacq is connected to the road that links with the capital city of Port Louis and provides access to the coastal road...	30
Mexico	Luz María Mena Basso	23	Mérida Mérida, Yucatán Mérida is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Yucatán and the Yucatán Peninsula. It is located in the northwest part of the state, about from the Gulf of Mexico coast...	39
Namibia	Ronel Liebenberg	22	Windhoek Windhoek Windhoek is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level. The 2001 census determined Windhoek's population was 233,529...	30
New Zealand	Adele Valerie Kenny	17	Murupara Murupara Murupara is a town located in the North Island of New Zealand. The town is situated in an isolated part of the Bay of Plenty region between the Kaingaroa Forest and Te Urewera National Park, on the banks of the Rangitaiki River, 65 kilometres southeast of Rotorua, along SH38. Murupara is the...	42
Nigeria	Sabina Ifeoma Umeh	21	Lagos Lagos Lagos is a port and the most populous conurbation in Nigeria. With a population of 7,937,932, it is currently the third most populous city in Africa after Cairo and Kinshasa, and currently estimated to be the second fastest growing city in Africa...	30
Norway	Ingeborg Kolseth	20	Hundorp Hundorp Hundorp is a village in Gudbrandsdal, Norway. The administrative centre of Sør-Fron, Oppland, Hundorp was also the centre of the petty kingdom of Gudbrandsdal and as such important in religion and politics. Dale-Gudbrands gard, the farm once populated by the ancient ruler Dale-Gudbrand, is the...	33
Panama	Madelaine Leignadier Dawson	20	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...	30
Papua New Guinea	Nellie Ban	23	Port Moresby Port Moresby Port Moresby , or Pot Mosbi in Tok Pisin, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea . It is located on the shores of the Gulf of Papua, on the southeastern coast of the island of New Guinea, which made it a prime objective for conquest by the Imperial Japanese forces during 1942–43...	30
Paraguay	Alba María Cordero Rivals	21	Asunción 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	Gisselle Martínez Cuadros	21	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...	39
Philippines	Antonette Elizalde Ballesteros	23	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,...	30
Poland	Ewa Maria Szymczak	23	Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...	41
Portugal	Filomena Paula Dias Miranda Marques	22	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
Puerto Rico	Magdalena Pabón	23	San Juan San Juan, Puerto Rico San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...	35
Romania	Mihaela Raescu	22	Craiova Craiova Craiova , Romania's 6th largest city and capital of Dolj County, is situated near the east bank of the river Jiu in central Oltenia. It is a longstanding political center, and is located at approximately equal distances from the Southern Carpathians and the River Danube . Craiova is the chief...	35
Singapore	Karen Frances Ng	17	Singapore Singapore Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...	30
Spain	María del Carmen Carrasco García	22	Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...	32
Sri Lanka	Angela Mary Jane Gunasekera	23	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...	30
Sweden	Daniela Jessica Maria Almen	19	Västerås Västerås Västerås is a city in central Sweden, located on the shore of Lake Mälaren in the province Västmanland, some 100 km west of Stockholm...	33
Switzerland	Priscilla Leimgruber	20	Bulle Bulle Bulle is a municipality in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. In January 2006 Bulle incorporated the formerly independent municipality of La Tour-de-Trême.-History:...	30
Thailand	Panida Umsaard	19	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...	30
'	Guenevere Helen Kelshall	22	Port of Spain Port of Spain Port of Spain, also written as Port-of-Spain, is the capital of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the country's third-largest municipality, after San Fernando and Chaguanas. The city has a municipal population of 49,031 , a metropolitan population of 128,026 and a transient daily population...	34
Turkey	Jülide Ateş	19	Istanbul Istanbul Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...	41
United Kingdom	Helen Upton	19	Birmingham Birmingham Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...	38
United States	Gina Marie Tolleson Gina Tolleson Gina Marie Tolleson is a model and the second Miss World titleholder from the United States.-Miss World:...	21	Charleston Charleston, South Carolina Charleston is the second largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It was made the county seat of Charleston County in 1901 when Charleston County was founded. The city's original name was Charles Towne in 1670, and it moved to its present location from a location on the west bank of the...	49
Uruguay	María Carolina Casalia Abelia	19	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...	32
'	Lauma Zemzare	19	Moscow Moscow Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...	36
Venezuela	Sharon Raquel Luengo González Sharon Luengo Sharon Raquel Luengo González competed as Miss Costa Oriental in her country's national beauty pageant Miss Venezuela, obtaining the Photogenic award and the title of Miss World Venezuela....	19	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...	50
Kingdom of Yugoslavia	Ivona Brnelić	18	Rijeka Rijeka Rijeka is the principal seaport and the third largest city in Croatia . It is located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and has a population of 128,735 inhabitants...	31

Continental groups order

• Egypt
• Ghana
• Kenya
• Madagascar
• Mauritius
• Namibia
• Nigeria
• Australia
• Cook Islands
• Guam
• Hong Kong
• India
• Japan
• Korea
• Macau
• New Zealand
• Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand

• Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Canada
• Chile
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• United States of America
• Uruguay
• Venezuela
• American Virgin Islands
• Aruba
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• British Virgin Islands
• Cayman Islands
• Curaçao
• Dominican Republic
• Jamaica
• Trinidad & Tobago

• Austria
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Cyprus
• Czechoslovakia
• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Gibraltar
• Greece
• Holland
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Ireland
• Israel
• Italy
• Latvia
• Luxembourg
• Malta
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• United Kingdom
• U.S.S.R.
• Yugoslavia

Returning countries and debuts

• Romania competed in Miss World for the first time after the Miss World Organization allowed the nation to compete after a 24-year Revolution
• Madagascar last competed in 1974
  Miss World 1974
  Miss World 1974, the 24th Miss World pageant, was held on November 22, 1974 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, England.Helen Elizabeth Morgan of the United Kingdom was crowned the winner at the end of the event, becoming the second Welsh and fourth woman from the United Kingdom to win the title. She...
  
  
• Brazil last competed in 1987
  Miss World 1987
  The 37th Miss World Pageant was held on November 12, 1987 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Ulla Weigerstorfer from Austria. Runner up was Albani Josefina Lozada Jimenez from Venezuela, and third was Anna Margret Jonsdottir from Iceland.-Results:-Order of Semi-finalists:* 1....
  
  
• Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Cook Islands, Egypt, India and Uruguay last competed in 1988
  Miss World 1988
  The 38th Miss World Pageant was held on November 17, 1988 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Linda Pétursdóttir from Iceland. Runner up was Yeon-hee Choi representing Korea and third was Kirsty Roper from the United Kingdom...
  
  

Withdrawals and nations not competing

• Republic of China and Swaziland failed to send delegates to Miss World this year
• Ecuador and Malaysia failed to send their delegates due to lack of sponsorship
• Lebanon did not compete in Miss World due to a civil war

Miss Universe

• Miss Universe 1989
  Miss Universe 1989
  Miss Universe 1989, the 38th Miss Universe pageant was held at Fiesta Americana Condesa Hotel, Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico on May 23, 1989. Angela Visser of Holland was crowned as Miss Universe 1989. Seventy-six contestants competed for the crown....
  
  : Trinidad & Tobago
• Miss Universe 1990
  Miss Universe 1990
  Miss Universe 1990, the 39th Miss Universe pageant was held at Shubert Theatre, Los Angeles, USA on April 15, 1990. Mona Grudt of Norway was crowned as Miss Universe 1990. Seventy-one contestants competed for the crown....
  
  : Aruba, Belize, Egypt, France, Germany (Miss Amity), Nigeria and Turkey (Top 10)
• Miss Universe 1991
  Miss Universe 1991
  Miss Universe 1991 was held at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts on the Las Vegas Strip, USA on May 17, 1991.Lupita Jones of Mexico was crowned as Miss Universe 1991...
  
  : Belgium, Cayman Islands, Curaçao (Top 10), Ghana, Ireland (Miss Photogenic), Namibia and United Kingdom
• Miss Universe 1992
  Miss Universe 1992
  Miss Universe 1992, the 41st Miss Universe pageant, was held at Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, Bangkok, Thailand on May 8, 1992. 78 international beauties competed for the Miss Universe crown....
  
  : Kenya

Miss International

• Miss International 1989
  Miss International 1989
  The 29th Miss International pageant was held on 17 September 1989 at Kanazawa's Kagekiza. The pageant was hosted by Masumi Okada.-Results:-Special awards:*Friendship: Lilia Andanar *Photogenic: Sherri Teixeira...
  
  : Paraguay
• Miss International 1990
  Miss International 1990
  The 30th Miss International pageant was held on 16 September 1990 at Osaka's Flower Expo Site. The pageant was hosted by Masumi Okada.-Placements:-Special awards:*Friendship: Edwina Taitano Menzies *Photogenic: Irine Vassilenko...
  
  : Belgium (Top 15), Costa Rica, Luxembourg, Poland (Top 15)
• Miss International 1991
  Miss International 1991
  Miss International 1991 was held at Tokyo, Japan on October 13, 1991. Agnieszka Kotlarska earned Poland's first Miss International crown.-Results:- Special awards:*Friendship: ', Norma Jean Cepeda*Photogenic: ', Melissa Vargas...
  
  : Hungary and United Kingdom (Top 15)

Historical significance

• The preliminary swimsuit competition at Miss World 1990 was held in Norway
  Norway
  Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
  
  .
• Gina Tolleson
  Gina Tolleson
  Gina Marie Tolleson is a model and the second Miss World titleholder from the United States.-Miss World:...
  
  (United States) married celebrity star Alan Thicke
  Alan Thicke
  Alan Thicke is a Canadian actor, songwriter, and game and talk show host. He is best known for his role as Jason Seaver, the patriarch on the ABC television series Growing Pains.- Early life :...
  
   but later divorced. She was also the 1st runner-up in the Miss USA 1990
  Miss USA 1990
  Miss USA 1990, the 39th Miss USA pageant, was televised live from the Century II Convention Center in Wichita, Kansas on March 2, 1990.At the conclusion of the final competition, Carole Gist of Michigan was crowned by outgoing titleholder Gretchen Polhemus of Texas...
  
   pageant as Miss South Carolina USA
  Miss South Carolina USA
  The Miss South Carolina USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state South Carolina in the Miss USA pageant. The pageant has been produced by RPM Productions since 1980....
  
  . She also hosted with Peter Marshall
  Peter Marshall (UK broadcaster)
  Peter Marshall is an Irish broadcaster, educated at St. Columb's College in Derry.-Early life:Having originally intended to train as a teacher, he started his working life as an actor, studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.-Television:In 1967 he became an announcer at...
  
   in Miss World 1991
  Miss World 1991
  Miss World 1991, the 41st Miss World pageant, was held on December 28, 1991 in Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The winner was Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiménez representing Venezuela.-Results:-Order of Semi-finalists:# France# Turkey...
  
  .
• Brenda Marte (Dominican Republic) came from the Dominican community in Queens, New York, United States
  Queens
  Queens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The largest borough in area and the second-largest in population, it is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States....
  
  .
• Sarah Yeats (Gibraltar) and Priscilla Leimgruber (Switzerland) did not compete in Miss Universe 1991. Gibraltar lost its franchise with the Miss Universe Organization
  Miss Universe Organization
  The Miss Universe Organization is the organization that currently owns and runs the Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA beauty contests. Based in New York, it is owned jointly by NBC Universal and Donald Trump. The current president is Paula Shugart...
  
  , while Miss Switzerland fell ill and withdrew at the last minute.
• Karina Brown (Australia) is currently a hostess in various local television programs.
• Ivona Brnelić (Yugoslavia) has currently lived and worked in London because of her duty to work with some prominent celebrities like Tina Turner
  Tina Turner
  Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...
  
   and Cher
  Cher
  Cher is an American recording artist, television personality, actress, director, record producer and philanthropist. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in...
  
  .
• The Miss Universe Organization did not allow Sharon Luengo
  Sharon Luengo
  Sharon Raquel Luengo González competed as Miss Costa Oriental in her country's national beauty pageant Miss Venezuela, obtaining the Photogenic award and the title of Miss World Venezuela....
  
  (Venezuela) to participate in Miss Universe 1991
  Miss Universe 1991
  Miss Universe 1991 was held at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts on the Las Vegas Strip, USA on May 17, 1991.Lupita Jones of Mexico was crowned as Miss Universe 1991...
  
   for being the second runner-up to Miss World 1990.
• The Parade of Nations was arranged in alphabetical order, but in accordance of the continental region: Africa, Asia & Oceania, Americas, Caribbean and Europe.
• 7 out of 10 countries which made it into the semi-finals, were not in the semi-finals last year: Turkey (1976), Finland (1984), Jamaica (1985), New Zealand (1986), Holland (1987) and Venezuela (1988). Aruba had made into the semi-finals for the first time since its debut at Miss Universe 1964
  Miss Universe 1964
  Miss Universe 1964, the 13th Miss Universe pageant, was won by 21-year-old Corinna Tsopei of Greece. It took place on 1 August 1964 at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.-Placements:-Special awards:...
  
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External sources

• Pageantopolis Coverage of Miss World 1990