:Miss North Carolina World

{{about||the state pageant affiliated with Miss America|Miss North Carolina|the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA|Miss North Carolina USA}}

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|formation = 1951

|type = Beauty pageant

|headquarters = Fayetteville

|location = North Carolina

|membership = {{nowrap|Miss World America (1951–present)}}

|language = English

|leader_title = State Director

|leader_name = Kathy Keefe Jensen

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|website = [https://missworldnc.com/ Official Website]

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The Miss North Carolina World competition is a beauty pageant that selects the representative for North Carolina in the Miss World America pageant.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pageantopolis.com/nat_past/World-USA.htm |title=Miss World USA Pageant |access-date=2014-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021230458/http://www.pageantopolis.com/nat_past/World-USA.htm |archive-date=2014-10-21 |url-status=usurped }}[https://web.archive.org/web/20130413173404/http://www.pageantopolis.com/nat_past/world-america.htm The American representatives to Miss World 1978–1994]

The current Miss North Carolina World is Tisha Abdul of Concord, North Carolina.

Winners

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{{Color box|gold|border=darkgray}} Declared as Winner/Ended as Miss World America
{{Color box|#FFFF66|border=darkgray}} Ended as runner-up
{{Color box|#FFFACD|border=darkgray}} Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
{{Color box|#FADADD|border=darkgray}} Ended as special awards winner
{{Color box|#ADD8E6|border=darkgray}} Ended as Miss USA

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! width=5% | Year

! width=20%| Name

! width=10%| Hometown

! width=3%|Age
Age at the time of the Miss World America pageant

! width=14%| Placement at Miss World America

! width=17%| Special awards at Miss World America

! width=31%| Notes

2025

| TBA

2023

|Tisha Abdul

|Concord

|19

|Beauty With A Purpose Ambassador for the Northeast Region of the United States

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| 2019

| Peyton Brown{{cite web |title=Miss World America – North Carolina|url=https://missworldamerica.com/miss-world-north-carolina/?ref=br_rs}}

| Dunn

| 18

| 2nd Runner-Up

| 1st Runner-Up at Miss North Carolina's Outstanding Teen 2018{{cite web|url=https://www.starnewsonline.com/photogallery/nc/20180625/news/625009995/PH/1|title=Meet the new Miss North Carolina|work=Star-News|date=June 25, 2018|accessdate=November 13, 2019}}
Later Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2020.

rowspan=2|2018

| style="background-color:#FFFF66;"|Shivali Patel

| style="background-color:#FFFF66;"|Raleigh

| style="background-color:#FFFF66;"|21

| style="background-color:#FFFF66;"|2nd Runner-Up

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style="background-color:#FFFACD;"|Sania Laraib

| style="background-color:#FFFACD;"|Raleigh

| style="background-color:#FFFACD;"|21

| style="background-color:#FFFACD;"|Top 10

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rowspan=2|2017

| style="background-color:#FFFACD;"|Shivali Patel

| style="background-color:#FFFACD;"|Raleigh

| style="background-color:#FFFACD;"|20

| style="background-color:#FFFACD;"|Top 16

| style="background-color:#FFFACD;"|

Nicole Owens

| Lumberton

| 19

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| 2016

| Shivali Patel

| Raleigh

| 19

| 1st Runner-Up

| Previously NAMiss North Carolina Jr. Teen 2011 and 2nd Runner-Up at NAM Jr. Teen 2011.

2015

| Selena Price{{Cite web|title=Miss North Carolina World 2015 Selena Price – Pagenat LIVE|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViA-FOuLbbQ|website=www.youtube.com|language=en|access-date=2020-05-29}}

| Huntersville

| 19

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| colspan="7" |Miss North Carolina United States 2014

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| 2014

| Elizabeth Safrit

| Kannapolis

| 22

| Miss United States 2014/Miss World America 2014

| 2nd Runner-Up at Miss World 2014.

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| colspan="7" |Miss North Carolina World

2013

| rowspan=8 colspan=6 align=center|No titleholders as Miss World America was designated from 2006 to 2013.

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

| rowspan=3 colspan=6 align=center|No known representatives from North Carolina from 2003 to 2005.

2004

2003

2002

| rowspan=8 colspan=6 align=center|No titleholders as Miss World America was designated from 1995 to 2002.

2001

2000

1999

1998

1997

1996

1995

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| 1994

| Michelle Mauney

| Stanley

| Top 7

| Later Miss North Carolina USA 1995 and competed in Miss USA 1995.

1993

| Vicki Johnson

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| 1992

| Shanna Phillips

| Top 10

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| colspan="7" |Miss North Carolina USA 1981–1991

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| 1991

| Pat Arnold

| Chapel Hill

| 21

| Top 6 (5th place)

| Miss Photogenic

1990

| Altman Allen

| Shelby

1989

| Jacqueline Padgette

| Hobgood

| Tammy Tolar

| Donna Wilson

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| 1986

| Rhonda Nobles

| Fayetteville

| 20

| Top 10

1985

| Kate Kenney

| Raleigh

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| 1984

| Cookie Noak

| Hickory

| 23

| Top 10

1983

| Allison Payge Pinson

| Mooresville

1982

| Jeannie Boger

| Sanford

| Mother of Miss USA 2009 Kristen Dalton (Miss North Carolina USA 2009) and Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2008 Julia Dalton (second-runner up at Miss Teen USA 2008).

1981

| Lisa Swift

| Southport

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| colspan="7" |Miss North Carolina World

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| 1980

| Monica Boston

| Top 15

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| 1979

| Deborah Ann Fountain

| Bronx, NY

| Top 8

| Later Miss New York USA 1981. Later competed in Miss USA 1981, as New York, but was disqualified after being found to have padded her swimsuit.{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04E2D61438F937A15756C0A967948260|title=Headliners; Truth in Packaging|date=1981-05-24|accessdate=2010-05-10|work=New York Times}}

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| 1978

| Debra Jean Freeze

| Mooresville

| 20

| Miss World America 1978

| Top 15 semi-finalist at Miss World 1978.

1977

| Betty Lou Hutchinson

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| 1976

| Sharon Denise Smith