It is located between Pelgulinn, Kopli and Sitsi and is bordered with the Stroomi Beach by the Kopli Bay (part of Tallinn Bay) to the west, and the Merimets forest park to the south.

With its small quarters, Pelguranna was one of the first complexly built neighborhoods in Tallinn (by architects K. Luts and August Volberg).

Besides the apartment buildings, there were built schools, kindergartens, shops, a polyclinic and a cinema.

That area makes up the northern half of the nowadays Pelguranna.

The southern part was built from 1960s to the 1980s and consists of pre-fabricated panel houses.