♦ Miss Thailand Opal Suchata Chuangsri was crowned Miss World 2025 at the 72nd Miss World Pageant held in Hyderabad on 31 May 2025.

♦ Miss World 2024 Krystyna Pyszková crowned Miss Thailand Opal Suchata Chuangsri.

♦ While Ethiopia’s Hasset Dereje emerged as the first runner-up, Maja Klajda from Poland won the second runner-up title.

♦ Maja Klajda, Psychology student from Warsaw, Poland, bagged the second runner-up title.

♦ The grand finale brought together 108 contestants from around the globe. 

♦ Opal Suchata Chuangsri, born on March 20, 2003, in Phuket, Thailand, is the first Thai woman to win the Miss World title. 

♦ Six Indian women have won the title, including Reita Faria (1966), Aishwarya Rai (1994), Diana Hayden (1997), Yukta Mookhey (1999), Priyanka Chopra (2000) and Manushi Chillar (2017).

♦ India is hosting Miss World for the third time.

♦ The first ever Miss World pageant was held in Bengaluru in 1996, two years after Aishwarya Rai won the crown in 1994 and last year, Delhi and Mumbai hosted the 71st Miss World.