Narva-Jõesuu
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| Narva-Jõesuu | |
  Narva-Jõesuu
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| Country |  Estonia |
| Admin. division | Ida-Viru County |
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| - Total | 3,000 |
Narva-Jõesuu (German: Hungerburg, Russian: Усть-Нарва = Ust'-Narva) is a town in Ida-Viru County, Estonia, located on the country's northern Baltic Sea coast near the Russian border. The name of the town in Estonian and Russian means "mouth of the Narva River". In the 19th century and early 20th centuries Narva-Jõesuu was a spa town frequented by nobility from St. Petersburg, which is less than 150km to the east, and during the Soviet period was a popular summer destination for visitors from the renamed Leningrad. Today the seven-kilometre-long white sand beach lined with pine trees is used mainly by locals, although some visitors do come from Finland.
As of 2007 the town's population was approximately 3000. As in the nearby city of Narva, most residents today are Russian or Russian-speaking, although the percentage of native Estonians is slightly higher in Narva-Jõesuu.
Narva-Jõesuu is located at the north-eastern end of the E9 European Coastal Path, which runs for 5000 km (3125 miles) from Cabo de São Vicente in Portugal.
[edit] External links
- http://www.narva-joesuu.ee Official website (in Estonian, Russian and English):
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