Tongue River

The Tongue River is a 90.4-mile-long tributary of the Pembina River in northeastern North Dakota in the United States. It drains an area of the prairie country near the Canada–US border in the extreme northeast corner of the state in the watershed of the Red River.

Photo: Malepheasant, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pembina and Noyes.

Pembina

Photo: Andrew Filer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Pembina is a city in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 512 at the 2020 census. Pembina is 2 miles south of the Canada–US border.

Noyes

Village

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Noyes is an unincorporated community in St. Vincent Township, Kittson County, Minnesota, United States. Located in the extreme northwestern corner of the state on the Canada–United States border, Noyes is the northern terminus of U.S. Highway 75 and site of a former road border crossing. Noyes is situated 6 miles northeast of Tongue River.

Tongue River

Type: Stream
Description: river in North Dakota, United States
Categories: river and body of water
Location: Pembina, North Dakota, Great Plains, United States, North America
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Latitude

48.93638° or 48° 56′ 11″ north

Longitude

-97.30285° or 97° 18′ 10″ west

Elevation

771 feet (235 metres)

Open location code

86W4WMPW+HV

GeoNames ID

5062203

Wikidata ID

Q7821160

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Welsh—“Tongue River” goes by many names.

Catalan: “Tongue”
Cebuano: “Tongue River (suba sa Tinipong Bansa, North Dakota)”
Cebuano: “Tongue River”
French: “Tongue River”
Irish: “Abhainn Tongue”
Venetian: “Tongue”
Welsh: “Afon Tongue”

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