Kilingi-Nõmme is a town in Pärnu County, southwestern Estonia.

The settlement was first mentioned in 1560, when a manor named Ovelgunne (also Kurkund) belonging to the Schilling family was established.

In the 1870s when most of the manor's land was handed out to Orthodox believers, the settlement started to develop faster.

[4] In 1896, a Pärnu–Mõisaküla–Rūjiena–Valga narrow gauge railway (750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in)) was built, the station in Kilingi-Nõmme was opened in 1917, before that the nearest station was Woltveti 1.7 km (1.1 mi) southeast in Tihemetsa.

After Estonia regained its independence in 1991, Kilingi-Nõmme served as a sovereign municipality, but merged with neighbouring Saarde and Tali parishes in 2005, and became the centre of the new Saarde Parish.