A beauty pageant or beauty contest is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include inner beauty, with criteria covering judging of personality, intelligence, talent, character, and charitable involvement, through private interviews with judges and answers to public on-stage questions. The term beauty pageant refers originally to the Big Four international beauty pageants.[1][2][3] Pageant titles are subdivided into Miss, Mrs or Ms, and Teen – to clearly identify the difference between pageant divisions. Similar events for men or boys are usually called by other names and are more likely to be bodybuilding contests.
List of world's Big Four international beauty pageants (the original Big Four):[3][4][5][6][7][8]
International beauty pageants aside the Big Four. Sub-Major international beauty pageant refers to international beauty pageant that launched in social media era (since 2004) which gain many followers and coverage globally:
List of minor beauty pageants:
The following are continental and regional pageants:
List of teen beauty pageants:
List of international marital beauty pageants:
List of senior (women aged 40 to 90+) beauty pageants:
List of world's seven major beauty pageants (the Big Seven);
List of teen beauty pageants: