How do I restore my contacts from an earlier backup?

Lost some but not all contacts when I got a new phone. How can I restore my contacts from a backup I did earlier this week?

When restoring an iPhone from the backup, the current backup being used is selected by default. If a previous backup is avaialble, you can select it from the pop-up where the current backup selected by default is located.
Contacts should be available in a supported address book app on your computer for a number of reasons with this being one of them. If so, the contacts would be transferred from the address book app on your computer without having to restore the iPhone with iTunes and in then event there is a problem with the backup in regards to this data. If the iPhone were lost or stolen or damaged and not usuable, your contacts would be available as well or syncing with another phone in the event the iPhone was not replaced with another, etc.

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