Miss Baltic Sea was a beauty pageant for countries that border the Baltic Sea: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden. It merged with Miss Scandinavia for the years 2007 and 2008 and then that merged pageant was discontinued.
| Year | Miss Baltic Sea | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Nina Andersson (model) |  Finland |
| 1992 | Liis Tappo |  Estonia |
| 1993 | Rasa Kukenyte |  Lithuania |
| 1994 | Anna Malova |  Russia |
| 1995 | Eva-Maria Laan | Estonia |
| 1996 | Agnieszka Zych |  Poland |
| 1997 | Nadine Schmidt |  Germany |
| 1998 | Karita Tuomola | Finland |
| 1999 | Kadri Väljaots | Estonia |
| 2000 | Mirosława Strojny | Poland |
| 2001 | Dagmar Makko | Estonia |
| 2002 | Heidi Willman | Finland |
| 2003 | Natascha Börger | Germany |
| 2004 | Anna Maria Strömberg | Finland |
| 2005 | Mira Salo | Finland |
| 2006 | Malwina Ratajczak | Poland |
| 2007 | Dorota Gawron | Poland |
| 2008 | Fanney Lára Guomundsdóttir |  Iceland |
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