Saarde is a village in

Saarde Parish Saarde is a municipality located in Pärnu County, one of the 15 counties of Estonia. Settlements ;Town: Kilingi-Nõmme ;Small borough: Tihemetsa ;Villages: Allikukivi - Ilvese - Jaamaküla - Jäärja - Kalda - Kalita - Kamali - Kana ...

Pärnu County Pärnu County ( or ''Pärnumaa''; ) is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is situated in the south-western part of the country, on the coast of Gulf of Riga, and borders Lääne and Rapla counties to the north, Järva and Viljandi counties to ...

in southwestern

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

. It is located just south of the town of

Kilingi-Nõmme Kilingi-Nõmme is a town in Pärnu County, southwestern Estonia. It is the administrative centre of Saarde Parish. It is located on the intersection of Valga– Uulu (Valga–Pärnu, no. 6) and Tartu–Viljandi–Kilingi-Nõmme (no. 92) roads, ...

, the administrative centre of the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

. As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 318. Saarde is the location of St. Cathrine's Church, built from 1858 to 1859 on the site of a previous church from 1684. Saarde kalmistu 8

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Villages in Pärnu County {{Pärnu-geo-stub