Sinimäe is a small borough in Narva-Jõesuu municipality,

Ida-Viru County Ida-Viru County ( et, Ida-Viru maakond or ''Ida-Virumaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is the most north-eastern part of the country. The county contains large deposits of oil shale - the main mineral mined in Estonia. Oil shale is used ...

in northeastern

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. At the 2011 Census, the settlement's population was 319, of which the

Estonians Estonians or Estonian people ( et, eestlased) are a Finnic ethnic group native to Estonia who speak the Estonian language. The Estonian language is spoken as the first language by the vast majority of Estonians; it is closely related to other ...

were 100 (31.3%). Prior to the 2017 administrative reform of local governments, it was located in

Vaivara Parish Vaivara Parish is a former municipality of Ida-Viru County in northern Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across fro ...

. Before 1977, Sinimäe was regarded as a village. In September 1944, the village was destroyed during a fierce battle between the Red Army and its opponents including Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS troops.

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Villages in Ida-Viru County Boroughs and small boroughs in Estonia {{IdaViru-geo-stub

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