# Miss Monaco > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Miss_Monaco > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Miss_Monaco.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Monaco > Source revision: 1317035044 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Beauty pageant This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (October 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) **Miss Monaco** or **Miss Monte Carlo** is a national [beauty pageant](/source/Beauty_pageant) for unmarried women in [Monaco](/source/Monaco).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] The pageant was held several times in the 1950s, with the 1953 winner, Elizabeth Chovisky, Participating in [Miss World 1953](/source/Miss_World_1953). In intervening years, contestant winners went on to compete in various unofficial Europe-wide contests. Not all winners are documented. In 2015 the preselection of contestants for the new edition of the Miss Monaco beauty pageant has started. ## Winners The results of the "unofficial" Miss Europe pageant, also known as the [Miss Europa](/source/Miss_Europa) pageant, are poorly documented, But Miss Monaco placed in some years. The Miss Europa pageant was organized by the Comité Officiel et International Miss Europe, and the Mondial Events Organisation, which ran the official Miss Europe pageant until 2002, filed suit against the organization in 2000 over the pageant name.[1] Year Miss Monaco Placement Notes 1953 Elizabeth Chovisky Competed at Miss World and Miss Europe as Miss Monte Carlo 1955 Josette Travers 1973 Veronique Mercier[2] 2nd Runner-up unofficial Miss Europe (Miss Europa[1]) 1973 1974 Dany Coutelier[3] 3rd Runner-up Unofficial Miss Europe (Miss Europa[1]) 1974 1976 Danielle Payan[4] 4th Runner-up, Unofficial Miss Europe (Miss Europa[1]) 1976 2014 Hannah Mathews ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Europa_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Europa_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Europa_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-Europa_1-3) ["Miss Europa History"](http://misseuropa.tripod.com/id9.html). *Misseuropa.tripod.com*. Retrieved 2016-02-08. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["MISS EUROPE 1973 SPECIAL (UNOFFICIAL PAGEANT)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20130928222418/http://lempimissit.suntuubi.com/?cat=418). *Lempimissit.suntuubi.com*. Archived from [the original](http://lempimissit.suntuubi.com/?cat=418) on 2013-09-28. Retrieved 2016-02-08. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["MISS EUROPE 1974 SPECIAL"](https://web.archive.org/web/20130928221655/http://lempimissit.suntuubi.com/?cat=417). *Lempimissit.suntuubi.com*. Archived from [the original](http://lempimissit.suntuubi.com/?cat=417) on 2013-09-28. Retrieved 2016-02-08. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["MISS EUROPE 1976 SPECIAL"](https://web.archive.org/web/20130928223055/http://lempimissit.suntuubi.com/?cat=385). *Lempimissit.suntuubi.com*. Archived from [the original](http://lempimissit.suntuubi.com/?cat=385) on 2013-09-28. Retrieved 2016-02-08. ## External links - [Official website](http://www.missmonaco.com/) v t e Miss World participant countries and territories Active (1951–present) Africa Angola Botswana Cameroon Côte d'Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Kenya Madagascar Mauritius Namibia Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Americas Argentina Belize Bolivia Brazil Canada Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Curaçao Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guadeloupe Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Martinique Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States Venezuela Asia Armenia Bangladesh Cambodia China India Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Philippines Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Thailand Turkey Vietnam Europe Albania Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Finland France Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Northern Ireland Poland Portugal Romania Scotland Serbia Slovenia Spain Sweden Ukraine Wales Oceania Australia New Zealand Inactive since 2025 Africa Algeria (2002) Cape Verde (2017) Chad (2014) Democratic Republic of the Congo (2016) Egypt (2018) Eswatini (2009) Gabon (2015) Gambia (1986) Guinea-Bissau (2023) Lesotho (2023) Liberia (2023) Malawi (2012) Morocco (2023) Rwanda (2021) São Tomé and Príncipe (2014) Seychelles (2017) Tanzania (2023) Americas Antigua and Barbuda (2019) Aruba (2019) Bahamas (2021) Barbados (2019) Bermuda (2015) Bonaire (2012) British Virgin Islands (2019) Costa Rica (2023) Cuba (1975) Dominica (2013) Grenada (2007) Montserrat (1964) Saint Barthélémy (2011) Saint Kitts and Nevis (2015) Saint Lucia (2021) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1994) Sint Maarten (2021) Turks and Caicos Islands (2004) United States Virgin Islands (2019) Uruguay (2023) Asia Hong Kong (2019) Israel (2017) Iraq (2023) Jordan (1981) Laos (2019) Macau (2023) Syria (1966) Taiwan (2013) Uzbekistan (2013) Europe Andorra (2003) Austria (2018) Belarus (2019) Cyprus (2018) Georgia (2019) Greenland (1992) Iceland (2021) Kosovo (2014) Lithuania (2014) Luxembourg (2021) Norway (2023) Monaco (1955) Russia (2019) Slovakia (2023) Switzerland (2014) Oceania Cook Islands (2019) Fiji (2017) French Polynesia (2010) Guam (2018) Northern Mariana Islands (2003) Papua New Guinea (1990) Samoa (2015) Tonga (1986) Inactive non-existing countries and former territories and others Czechoslovakia (1992) Guernsey (1975) Hawaii (2001) Isle of Man (1988) Jersey (1981) Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1965) Serbia and Montenegro (2005) South Africa (Miss South Africa for Blacks) (1976) Soviet Union (1990) United Kingdom (1999) v t e Miss Europe Sovereign states Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Kazakhstan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales States with limited recognition Abkhazia Kosovo Northern Cyprus South Ossetia Transnistria Dependencies and other entities Åland Faroe Islands Gibraltar Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey Svalbard --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Miss Monaco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Monaco) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Monaco?action=history)). 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