Nguyen Phuong Khanh from Vietnam was crowned Miss Earth 2018 at the finale on November 3 in Manila, the Philippines. Khanh is the first Vietnamese to win the title. Born in 1994, the 1.71m tall beauty from Ben Tre province, weighs 51 kg, and measures 90-58-94. She is pursuing a degree in marketing at Curtin University, Singapore. Khanh will graduate in early 2019.

Nguyen won after telling her fellow millennials to stop using social media and technology for vanity purposes and “transform the world” in the pageant’s question-and-answer round. She advocates for maintaining and preserving Vietnam’s rivers and forests as her country “transforms itself into an industrialized nation,”

Melissa Flores of Mexico was named Miss Earth Fire, Colombia’s Valeria Ayos as Miss Earth Water and Austria’s Melanie Mader as Miss Earth Air.