Pärnu (GermanThe German language (', ) is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. German is closely related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. Around the world, German is spoken by approximately 100 million native speakers and another 20 million non-native speakers, and Standard German ...German: Pernau; RussianRussian (:Media:Ru-russkiy jizyk.ogg| (help·info), transliteration: , ) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia and the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of three (or, according to some authorities, four) living members of the East Slavic languages; the others being Belarusian and Ukrainian (and possibly Rusyn, often considered a dialect of Ukrainian). Written ...Russian: Пярну, formerly Пернов) is a cityA city is an urban settlement with a particularly important status which differentiates it from a town. City is primarily used to designate an urban settlement with a large population. However, city may also indicate a special administrative, legal, or historical status. ...city on the Baltic SeaThe Baltic Sea is located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and the Little Belt. The Kattegat continues through the Skagerrak into the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The Baltic Sea is artificially linked to the White Sea by the White Sea Canal and to the North Sea by the ...Baltic Sea coast of Pärnu Bay, in southwestern EstoniaEstonia (Estland in German and several other Germanic languages), officially the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti or Eesti Vabariik), is a country in Northern Europe. Estonia has land borders to the south with Latvia and to the east with Russia. It is separated from Finland in the north by the Gulf of Finland and from Sweden in the west by the Baltic Sea. Estonia has been a member of the European Union since 1 May 2004 and of NATO since 29 March 2004. The Estonians are a Finnic ...Estonia. It is a popular summer vacationVacation is a term used in English-speaking North America to describe a lengthy time away from work or school, a trip abroad, or simply a pleasure trip away from home, such as a trip to the beach that lasts several days or longer. In the rest of the English-speaking world the word holiday is used, whereas in North ...vacation resort with many hotelsA hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging, usually on a short-term basis. Hotels often provide a number of additional guest services such as a restaurant, a swimming pool or childcare. Some hotels have conference services and meeting rooms and encourage groups to hold conventions and meetings at their location. ...hotels, restaurantsA restaurant is an establishment that serves prepared food and beverages to order, to be consumed on the premises. The term covers a multiplicity of venues and a diversity of styles of cuisine. Restaurants are sometimes also a feature of a larger complex, typically a hotel, where the dining amenities are provided for the convenience of the residents and for the hotel to maximize ...restaurants, and large beachesA beach, or strand, is a geological landform consisting of loose rock particles such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, cobble, or even shell fragments along the shoreline of a body of water. They occur along coastal areas where wave or current action deposit and rework sediments, or a stretch of land residing along a lake or river subject to erosion caused by rain fall.beaches. The Pärnu RiverThe Pärnu is a river in Estonia that drains into the Gulf of Riga at Pärnu. It is a one of the longest rivers in Estonia - 144 km long. Parnu Category:Pärnu Category:Pärnu County Category:Järva County cs:Pärnu (řeka) de:Pärnu (Fluss) et:Pärnu jõgi fi:Pärnujoki lt:Piarnu (upė) nn:Elva Pärnu pt:Rio Pärnu tr:Pärnu NehriPärnu River flows through the city, which is served by Pärnu AirportPärnu Airport is an airport in Estonia. The airport is situated 4 km from the city of Pärnu. In October 1937 Pärnu town council gave an area of 0.28 km² for building of an airport. The first plane took off from the airport in 1939. During the Cold War, the airfield ...Pärnu Airport.

The city is occasionally referred to as Pyarnu, an incorrect reverse-transliterationTransliteration is the practice of transcribing a word or text written in one writing system into another writing system. It is also the system of rules for that practice. Technically, from a linguistic point of view, it is a mapping from one system of writing into another. Transliteration attempts to be exact, so that an informed reader should be able to reconstruct the original spelling of unknown transliterated ...transliteration from Russian Пярну.