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Miss Maroc
Formation	1956
Type	Beauty Pageant
Headquarters	Casablanca
Location	Morocco
Official language	Arabic
Management	Night Star Maroc
Website	missmaroc.net

Miss Maroc is the national beauty pageant for women in Morocco.

History

The first known "Miss Maroc" representing the newly independent nation of Morocco in 1956 was Lydia Marin who competed in Miss World the same year. Night Star Maroc is currently the owner of the "Miss Maroc" trademark.

Between 1950s and 1970s, Morocco sent delegates to major international pageants such as Miss Universe, Miss World, and Miss International pageants.

Titleholders

Color key

Declared as Winner
Ended as runner-up
Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists

Year	Miss Maroc	Miss Universe Morocco	Miss World Morocco	Miss International Morocco
2016	Sara Belkiz^[1]	N/A	N/A	N/A
2015	Fatima Ezzahra El-Horre^[2]	N/A	N/A	N/A
2012	Sarah Mouatamid^[3]	N/A	N/A	N/A
2002	Doja Lahlou	N/A	N/A	N/A
1978	Majida Tazi	Majida Tazi	N/A	N/A
1975	Salhi Badia	Salhi Badia	N/A	N/A
1969	Rahima Hachti	N/A	N/A	Rahima Hachti
1968	Zakia Chamouch	N/A	Zakia Chamouch	N/A
1967	Naïma Benjelloun	N/A	Naïma Benjelloun	N/A
1966	Joelle Lesage	Joelle Lesage	Naima Naim	N/A
1965	Lucette Garcia	N/A	Lucette Garcia	N/A
1964	Leila Gourmala	N/A	Leila Gourmala	N/A
1963	Selma Rahal	Selma Rahal	N/A	Andrée Picard
1962	Ginette Buenaventes	Ginette Buenaventes	N/A	Therese Gonzalez
1961	Irene Gorsse	Irene Gorsse	N/A	Monique Auglade
1960	Marilyne Escobar	Marilyne Escobar	N/A	Raymonde Valle
1959	Raymonde Valle	N/A	N/A	N/A
1958	Jocelyne Lambin	N/A	Jocelyne Lambin	N/A
1957	Jacqueline Dorella Bonilla	Jacqueline Dorella Bonilla *(Top 15)*	Danielle Muller	N/A
1956	Lydia Marin	N/A	Lydia Marin	N/A
1953	N/A	Colette Ribes WITHDREW	N/A	N/A

References

External links

Official website

Miss Universe participant countries and territories

Active
(1952–present)

Africa	Angola Botswana Cameroon Cote d'Ivoire Democratic Republic of the Congo Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Guinea Kenya Mauritius Namibia Nigeria Senegal Somalia South Africa Tanzania Zambia Zimbabwe
Americas	Argentina Aruba Bahamas Belize Bolivia Bonaire Brazil British Virgin Islands Canada Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Curaçao Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guadeloupe Guatemala Guyana Honduras Jamaica Martinique Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Saint Lucia Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Uruguay United States US Virgin Islands Venezuela
Asia	Bahrain Bangladesh Cambodia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Israel Japan Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Macau Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Pakistan Philippines Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Thailand United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam
Europe	Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Gibraltar Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Kosovo Latvia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Spain Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	Australia Fiji New Zealand Samoa

Inactive since 2023 (under JKN Metaverse Inc.)

Africa	Benin (1962) Ethiopia (2017) Eswatini (1994) Gabon (2015) Gambia (1986) Ghana (2022) Lesotho (1978) Liberia (1977) Madagascar (1961) Morocco (2021) Réunion (1986) Seychelles (2022) Sierra Leone (2019) Tunisia (1971)
Americas	Antigua and Barbuda (2008) Barbados (2020) Bermuda (1997) Dominica (1985) French Guiana (1984) Greenland (1990) Grenada (1964) Haiti (2022) Saint Kitts and Nevis (1981) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2006) Sint Maarten (2006)
Asia	Bhutan (2022) Chinese Taipei (2004) Iraq (2017) Jordan (1960)
Europe	Austria (2017) Georgia (2019) Lithuania (2019) Luxembourg (1994) Slovenia (2017) Sweden (2021)
Oceania	American Samoa (1978) Cook Islands (1999) Guam (2019) New Caledonia (1982) Northern Marianas (2006) Papua New Guinea (1986) Tahiti (1985) Vanuatu (1978)

Inactive territories and dependencies
(1952–2006)

Constituent countries of Great Britain (began 1992, using Great Britain sash at Miss Universe)	England (1955–1990) Scotland (1961–1990) Wales (1961–1990)
Prefecture of Japan	Okinawa (1963–1968)
Bantustans of South Africa	Bophuthatswana (1979) Transkei (1979–1983)
States of the United States	Alaska (1952–1958) Hawaii (1952–1959)
Former entities (1952–2006)	Commonwealth of Independent States (1992) Czechoslovakia (1970–1992) Micronesia (1975) Southern Rhodesia (1961) Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006) Soviet Union (1990–1991) West Indies (1954–1958) Yugoslavia (1968–2002)

Miss World participant countries and territories

Active
(1951–present)

Africa	Angola Botswana Cameroon Cote d'Ivoire Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Mauritius Morocco Namibia Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Tanzania Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
Americas	Argentina Belize Bolivia Brazil Canada Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Curaçao Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guadeloupe Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Martinique Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela
Asia	Bangladesh Cambodia China India Indonesia Iraq Japan Korea Laos Lebanon Macau Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Philippines Singapore Sri Lanka Thailand Vietnam
Europe	Albania Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Finland France Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Latvia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Romania Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Turkey Ukraine Wales
Oceania	Australia New Zealand

Inactive since 2023 (first edition after the COVID-19 pandemic)

Africa	Algeria (2002) Cape Verde (2017) Chad (2014) Democratic Republic of the Congo (2016) Egypt (2018) Equatorial Guinea (2021) Eswatini (2009) Gabon (2015) Gambia (1986) Malawi (2012) Rwanda (2021) São Tomé and Príncipe (2014) Seychelles (2017)
Americas	Antigua and Barbuda (2019) Aruba (2019) Bahamas (2021) Barbados (2019) Bermuda (2015) Bonaire (2012) British Virgin Islands (2019) Cuba (1975) Dominica (2013) Grenada (2007) Montserrat (1964) Saint Barthelemy (2011) Saint Kitts and Nevis (2015) Saint Lucia (2021) Sint Maarten (2021) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1994) Suriname (2012) Turks and Caicos (2004) US Virgin Islands (2019)
Asia	Chinese Taipei (2013) Hong Kong China (2019) Israel (2017) Jordan (1981) Kyrgyzstan (2019) Syria (1966) Uzbekistan (2013)
Europe	Andorra (2003) Armenia (2021) Austria (2018) Belarus (2019) Cyprus (2018) Georgia (2019) Greenland (1992) Iceland (2021) Kosovo (2014) Lithuania (2014) Luxembourg (2021) Monaco (1955) North Macedonia (2015) Russia (2019) Switzerland (2014)
Oceania	Cook Islands (2019) Fiji (2017) French Polynesia (2010) Guam (2018) Northern Marianas (2003) Papua New Guinea (1990) Samoa (2015) Tonga (1986)

Inactive non-existing countries and former territories and others
Africa South (Miss South Africa for Blacks) (1976) Czechoslovakia (1992) Hawaii (2001) Guernsey (1975) Isle of Man (1988) Jersey (1981) Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1965) Serbia and Montenegro (2005) Tanganyika (1960) United Kingdom (1999) (competed as England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales) USSR (1990) Yugoslavia (2002)

Miss International participant countries and territories

Active
(1960–present)

Africa	Angola Cape Verde Cote d'Ivoire Ethiopia Ghana Kenya Lesotho Mauritius Namibia Nigeria Sierra Leone South Africa South Sudan Togo Tunisia Equatorial Guinea Uganda Zimbabwe
Americas	Argentina Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Martinique Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico United States Venezuela
Asia	Bangladesh Cambodia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan Korea Laos Macau Malaysia Kyrgyzstan Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Pakistan Philippines Singapore Sri Lanka Taiwan Thailand Uzbekistan Vietnam
Europe	Albania Belarus Belgium Bulgaria Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Ireland Italy Lithuania Luxembourg Moldova Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Spain Ukraine United Kingdom
Oceania	Australia Hawaii New Zealand Northern Marianas

Inactive since 2022 (first edition in the COVID-19 pandemic)

Africa	Burkina Faso (2019) Cameroon (2019) Democratic Republic of the Congo (1987) Egypt (2018) Gabon (2014) Liberia (2019) Madagascar (2018) Morocco (2019) Republic of the Congo (2008) Senegal (2004) Seychelles (1995) Sudan (2009) Tanzania (2011) Zambia (2019)
Americas	Aruba (2019) Bahamas (2010) Belize (2019) Bermuda (1971) Curaçao (2018) Guadeloupe (2019) Guyana (2014) Suriname (2013) Trinidad and Tobago (2011) Uruguay (1999) US Virgin Islands (2012)
Asia	Israel (2014) Jordan (1963) Lebanon (2018)
Europe	Armenia (2019) Austria (1994) Croatia (2003) Cyprus (2006) Georgia (2014) Gibraltar (2017) Hungary (2018) Iceland (2013) Kazakhstan (2005) Latvia (2012) Malta (2004) North Macedonia (2002) Russia (2019) San Marino (2001) Serbia (2014) Sweden (2019) Switzerland (1993) Turkey (2015)
Oceania	Cook Islands (2018) Fiji (1996) Guam (2019) Tahiti (2019) New Caledonia (2006) Palau (2001)

Inactive non-existing countries and former territories
Borneo (1960) Czechoslovakia (1992) England (1986) Latin Mexico (Ethnic Representation) (2003) Malaya (1962) Native American (Ethnic Representation) (2003) Scotland (1986) Serbia and Montenegro (2006) South Pacific (Ethnic Representation) (1960) USSR (1990) Wales (1986) West Indies (1965) Yugoslavia (2002)