Pungo River
The Pungo River is a river in eastern North Carolina, United States. It originally began in the Great Dismal Swamp in Washington County, North Carolina; the upper part of the river has since been supplanted by the Pungo River Canal, dug in the 1950s to improve drainage of local farmland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pantego.
Pantego
Village
Pantego is a town in Beaufort County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 164 at the 2020 census. Pantego is situated 4½ miles southwest of Pungo River.
Pungo River
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: river in the United States of America
- Categories: river and locality
- Location: Pantego Township, Beaufort County, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.63675° or 35° 38′ 12″ northLongitude
-76.6121° or 76° 36′ 44″ westElevation
30 feet (9 metres)Open location code
8775J9PQ+M5OpenStreetMap ID
node 158582057OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Pungo River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر بونغو”
- Catalan: “Pungo”
- Cebuano: “Pungo River”
- Dutch: “Pungo River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر بونجو”
- French: “Pungo”
- Irish: “Abhainn Pungo”
- Japanese: “プンゴ川”
- Venetian: “Pungo”
- Welsh: “Afon Pungo”
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