Yellowstone River
The Yellowstone River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 671 miles long, in the Western United States. Considered the principal tributary of the upper Missouri, via its own tributaries it drains an area with headwaters across the mountains…
- Type: Stream
- Description: tributary of the Missouri River in North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming in the United States
- Also known as: “Aahkawirahkata”, “E-chee-dick-karsh-ah-shay”, “Encheda-cahchi-ichi”, “Mi tse a-da-zi”, “Mi-tsi-a-da-zi”, “Moehe’yoe”, “Pierre Jaune”, “reka Yellowstone”, “River a la Biche”, “River aux Roches Jaunes”, “River Rockybone”, “River Yellow Rock”, “Roche Jaune”, “the Yellowstone”, “Waahukaahaanu”, “Yellowstone (rivier)”, “Yellowstone floden”, “Yellowstone river”, “Yellowstone-floden”, “Yellowstone-Fluss”, “Yellowstone-River”, “Yellowstoneelva”, “Yellowstoneelven”, “Йеллоустоун”, and “נהר ילוסטון”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Fort Buford.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buford.
Buford
Village
Buford is an unincorporated community in Williams County, North Dakota, United States.
Yellowstone River
- Categories: river, tourist destination, and body of water
- Location: McKenzie, North Dakota, Great Plains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.97835° or 47° 58′ 42″ north
Longitude
-103.98215° or 103° 58′ 56″ west
Elevation
1,860 feet (567 metres)
Open location code
85VRX2H9+84
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Yellowstone River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Yellowstonerivier”
- Arabic: “نهر يلوستون”
- Armenian: “Ելլուսթոն”
- Asturian: “Ríu Yellowstone”
- Azerbaijani: “Yellouston çayı”
- Basque: “Yellowstone (ibaia)”
- Basque: “Yellowstone”
- Belarusian: “Елаўстан”
- Bulgarian: “Йелоустоун”
- Catalan: “Riu Yellowstone”
- Catalan: “Yellowstone”
- Cebuano: “Yellowstone River (suba sa Tinipong Bansa, North Dakota)”
- Cebuano: “Yellowstone River”
- Cheyenne: “Mo’éheo’hé’e”
- Chinese: “黃石河”
- Chuvash: “Йеллоустон”
- Cornish: “Dowr Yellowstone”
- Croatian: “Yellowstone”
- Czech: “Yellowstone”
- Danish: “Yellowstonefloden”
- Dutch: “Yellowstone”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر يلوستون”
- Estonian: “Yellowstone’i jõgi”
- Finnish: “Yellowstone”
- French: “Yellowstone”
- Galician: “Río Yellowstone”
- German: “Yellowstone River”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Γιέλοουστοουν”
- Hebrew: “ילוסטון”
- Interlingua: “Yellowstone (fluvio)”
- Interlingua: “Yellowstone”
- Irish: “Abhainn Yellowstone”
- Italian: “Yellowstone”
- Japanese: “イエローストーン川”
- Korean: “옐로스톤강”
- Kurdish: “Çemê Yellowstonê”
- Lithuanian: “Jeloustonas”
- Lithuanian: “Jeloustounas”
- Mingrelian: “იელოუსტოუნი (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “იელოუსტოუნი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yellowstone”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yellowstone-elva”
- Norwegian: “Yellowstone River”
- Persian: “رود یلواستون”
- Polish: “Yellowstone”
- Portuguese: “rio Yellowstone”
- Portuguese: “Rio Yellowstone”
- Romanian: “Râul Yellowstone”
- Russian: “Йеллоустон”
- Scots: “Yellowstone River”
- Serbian: “Јелоустоун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Yellowstone”
- Slovenian: “Yellowstone”
- South Azerbaijani: “یلواستون چایی”
- Spanish: “Río Yellowstone”
- Swedish: “Yellowstonefloden”
- Tamil: “மஞ்சப்பாறை ஆறு”
- Turkish: “Yellowstone Irmağı”
- Ukrainian: “Єллоустон (річка)”
- Ukrainian: “Єллоустон”
- Uzbek: “Yellouston”
- Venetian: “Yellowstone”
- Vietnamese: “sông Yellowstone”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Yellowstone”
- Welsh: “Afon Yellowstone”
- Western Frisian: “Yellowstone”
- Western Panjabi: “دریاۓ ییلوسٹون”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Dore and Marley.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center and Figley Coulee.
North Dakota: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Bismarck and Fargo.
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