''Miss Scandinavia'' is a

beauty pageant A beauty pageant is a competition in which the contestants are judged and ranked based on various physical and mental attributes. Per its name, beauty pageants traditionally focus on judging the contestants' physical attractiveness, sometimes sol ...

for

Nordic Nordic most commonly refers to: * Nordic countries, the northern European countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, and their North Atlantic territories * Scandinavia, a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern ...

women. The contest was merged with the Miss Baltic Sea pageant for the years 2007 and 2008 and after that the merged pageant was also discontinued. It was sponsored by

MTV3 MTV3 (, ) is a Finnish commercial television channel owned and operated by the media company MTV Oy, originally launched on 13 August 1957 as a programming block, becoming its own channel on 1 January 1993. It had the biggest audience share ...

. After a hiatus between 2009 and 2020, the Miss Scandinavia pageant returned in 2021 with new organizers under the Miss Scandinavia Organization.

Titleholders

Winners by countries and territories

Hosts

{, class="wikitable" ! Year ! Hosts (s) , - , 1963 , Jaakko Jahnukainen and

Jutta Zilliacus Jutta Armelle Zilliacus (born 25 July 1925) is a Finnish-born ethnic Estonian journalist and author in the Swedish language. She was also a politician, and served as a Member of Parliament for the Swedish People's Party for Helsinki from 1975 ...

, - , 1964 , Carl-Erik Creutz and

Lenita Airisto Hymmi Lenita Aulikki Airisto (born 1 January 1937 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish businesswoman, TV journalist, author, and promoter of Finnish industrial and cultural exports. She is also a beauty pageant titleholder, having won the title of ...

, - , 1965 , Carl-Erik Creutz and Liisa Tähkä , - , 1966 , Hugo Ahlberg and

, - , 1967 , Hugo Ahlberg and Tuula Ignatius , - , 1971 , Voitto Kotilainen , -

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Miss Scandinavia

Frøken Danmark

Frøken Norge

Fröken Sverige

Suomen Neito

Ungfrú Ísland

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Titleholders

Winners by countries and territories

Hosts

See also

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