Miss Earth 2023
Miss Earth 2023 will be the 23rd Miss Earth pageant to be held at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on 22 December 2023. Mina Sue Choi of South Korea will crown her successor at the end of the event. Background

Location and date
On 18 July 2022 in Ho Chi Minh City, Lorraine Schuck, co-founder of the Miss Earth Organization, announced that Miss Earth 2023 would be held in Vietnam for a second time, the first being held in 2010. The pageant will take place at an 8,000-seater theater in Nha Trang, Khánh Hòa, On 21 July 2023, the Miss Earth Organization announced that the pageant will take place on 16 December 2023. However, on 11 September 2023, the Miss Earth Organization announced that the pageant will take place on 22 December instead of 16 December, and the venue was relocated to the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center in Ho Chi Minh City to accommodate a larger audience. On 16 October 2023, the Miss Earth Organization announced that the pageant will take place in Ho Chi Minh City from 1 December 2023 to 22 December 2023. The National Costume Competition, which will be held at Nguyen Hue Walking Street on 2 December, would serve as the welcoming event of the pageant. The Best Eco Project presentation will be held at the Gem Convention Center on 4 December, the Miss Earth 2023 X Fashion Voyage, which are evening gown and swimsuit competitions, will be held at Van Phuc City on 9 December, and the Fashionature ecotourism and fashion shoot will be held on 14 December. The talent competition will take place at the Saigon Opera House on 16 December. Selection of participants 
Contestants from eighty-seven countries and territories were selected to compete in the pageant. Two contestants were appointed to their position after being a runner-up of their national pageant. Replacements 
Belindé Schreuder, the first runner-up of Miss Earth South Africa 2023, was appointed to represent her country since the original winner, Zabelo Hlabisa, exceeded the age limit. Andjela Vanevski, Miss Balkana 2023, was appointed to represent Serbia since Jelena Petrović, the original representative, relinquished the title due to personal reasons. Debuts, returns, and withdrawals 
This edition will mark the debuts of Eswatini, Lesotho, and Mozambique, and the returns of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Moldova, Myanmar, the Northern Mariana Islands, Paraguay, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, Uruguay, and the US Virgin Islands. Madagascar last competed in 2014, Trinidad and Tobago last competed in 2018, Fiji, Hungary, Kazakhstan and Tonga last competed in 2019, Finland, Honduras, Moldova, and US Virgin Islands last competed in 2020, while the others last competed in 2021. Contestants
As of 27 October 2023, eighty-seven contestants have been confirmed. Upcoming national pageants

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