Miss Universe Nepal 2025


Miss Universe Nepal 2025 was the 9th edition of Miss Universe Nepal pageant in a reality show format, held on September 24, 2025, at Royal Tulip Kathmandu, Lalitpur. Sampada Ghimire of Bhaktapur crowned Sanya Adhikari as Miss Universe Nepal 2025 who represented Nepal at Miss Universe 2025.
The event was nationally live streamed via AP1 HD on television, and internationally via 'OSR Reality' YouTube channel.

Background

The press conference of MUN 2025 was held at Hilton Hotel Kathmandu on May 28, 2025, where the registrations for the pageant were announced from May 29 to July 26, 2025. It was also announced that the pageant will follow TV Reality Series format with city auditions according to online registration details of applicants via Khalti App.
Host cityAudition DateEntrants
DamakJuly 12, 202540
BiratnagarJuly 13, 202540
KathmanduAugust 9, 2025100

On August 7, 2025, the Miss Universe Nepal team visited the 'Meet and Greet' organized by NAIMA Mobility Expo as a part of public interaction event. For the reality show version, MUN partnered with OSR Reality, national level digital media for reality shows.

Miss Universe Nepal 2025 Reality Show

Production

As announced in press conference, the pageant was a reality show with slight modifications to its basic pageant format. Prashant Tamrakar served as the choreographer and 'Master Jury' while Sangita Puri as the 'Grand Jury' for the reality show. The studio for various rounds of the pageant including grand finale was located at Royal Tulip Kathmandu, Lalitpur.
Out of 140 entrants of auditions, 16 contestants entering the reality show were required to perform in several episodic challenges based on which episodic Top 5 was selected by judges' score and one of the episodic Top 5 was eligible to win that episode. The episode winners were announced on finale and got direct entry to Grand Finale Top 10 placement.
Grand Finale Format
● Top 16- Opening dance, introduction, swimsuit round, cocktail dress ramp-walk.
● Top 10 announcement and Top 10 Q/A round.
● Top 5- Evening gown and Q/A round.
● Top 16- Gown presentation and final walk of outgoing winner.
● Announcement of Runners Up and Coronation of winner.

Contestants

List of Contestants

The episodes served as fast-tracks for direct placement at finale, with no elimination of contestants till finale.
All the Top 5 contestants of Episode 2 were advanced to finale by winning other episodes or merit; so the 6th position holder was advanced to Finals Top 10.
All the candidates got fair chance of winning Episode 1 with no Top 5 announcement.
Episode 6 was entertainment based and not fast-track challenge.
RepresentingContestantEP 1EP 2EP 3EP 4EP 5EP 6FinalsRef.
KathmanduAarohi BasnetWonTop 5Top 5Ep 1
Kohalpur, BankeLisa BarnawalWonTop 5Top 5Ep 2
Bagmati/ Toronto, CanadaSonalisa DhunganaTop 5WonTop 5Top 5Ep 3
TehrathumShikha ParajuliTop 5Top 5WonEp 4
LalitpurJyoti ThapaTop 5WonEp 5
Kathmandu/ Bangkok, ThailandSanya AdhikariTop 5Top 5Merit
NawalparasiBarsha KandelWildcardTop 5Merit
MechiSuyesha Singh RajMerit
Karnali ProvinceNirjara NeupaneMerit
Banke/ AustraliaAlina YaryTop 5Top 5Top 5Merit
KathmanduPratikshya AdhikariUnplaced
LalitpurAngel DangolTop 5Unplaced
Sudurpaschim ProvinceElisha DeubaUnplaced
DharanSaraswati RaiWildcardUnplaced
KathmanduIsha RaiWildcardUnplaced

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Miss Popular Choice

: Winner of Miss Popular Choice, direct entry to Grand Finale Top 5.

Results

Grand Finale

: Candidate won one of the episodes and directly placed at Top 10.
: Candidate won 'Miss Popular Choice' and directly placed at Top 5.