en Face of Nepal

Face of Nepal is Asia's largest model hunt platform where Nepalese models participate to be offered the chance to represent Nepal at the Asia New Star Model Contest.

Competition

Face of Nepal was started in 2016 by Badal Saboo,^[1] with the prize for the 4 top winners going to Suwon City, Korea to compete in the Asia New Model Contest,^[2] a contest partnered with the Korea Model Association (KMA).^[3]^[4] The KMA has organized the Asia Model Festival, Asia's largest, for the past 10 years.^{[citation needed]}

The Face of Nepal 2016 pageant took place on April 29, 2016, at Kathmandu.^[5] The winners were Ritesh Raj Gurung and Al Hang Rae, who won the prize. First runner up went to Parmita RL Rana and Sameer Kunwar Rana who withdrew for personal reasons, resulting in Bhaskar Baniya being given the 1st runner up title. The Asia New Model Contest took place on 19 May 2016, with 25 countries taking place.^{[citation needed]}

Titleholders

Color key

Declared as Winner
Ended as Runner-up
Ended as one of the top Semi-Finalists

Year	Face of Nepal (Male)	Face of Nepal (Female)	1st Runner Up (Female)	1st Runner Up (Male)	Placement	Special awards
2016	Ritesh Raj Gurung	Al Hang Rae	Paramita RL Rana	Bhaskar Baniya	TBA	TBA
2020	Bibek Khadka	Smriti Nepal, Nafisha Shrestha
2021	Kritagya Raj Shrestha	Niti Shah, Sriyanshu Piya
2022	Kunsang Bomjan	Soniya Bista, Aditi Adhikari
2023