Miss Universe 2023 to take place in El Salvador. The Central American country last hosted the beauty pageant in 1975. After a glitzy 2022 finale in Louisiana, it’s been announced that Miss Universe 2023 is heading back to the Americas and will be held in El Salvador. No date for the next competition has been officially announced, although it’s expected to be held later this year, after last year’s pageant was postponed in a bid to avoid clashing with the FIFA Qatar World Cup in November. The announcement was made by the country’s President Nayib Bukele during the 71st Miss Universe in New Orleans, where Miss USA R’Bonney Gabriel took the crown, becoming the first Filipina-American to win the competition. “El Salvador is a country that is full of beauty,” said Bukele in a recorded video. “We have the best surfing beaches in the world, magnificent volcanoes, exquisite coffee and we have now become the safest country in Latin America. “I would like to thank the Miss Universe Organization for joining us in this historic process. El Salvador is changing and we want you to come and see it for yourselves.” Officially known as the Republic of El Salvador, the country is in Central America, sharing borders with Honduras and Guatemala. It last held the pageant in 1975, in San Salvador, when Miss Finland took the crown.
