Moorhead

Moorhead is a city in of about 35,000. Moorhead is sometimes referred to as the "twin city" of the larger , its neighbor across the Red River in North Dakota.
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  • Type: Town with 34,700 residents
  • Description: city in Clay County, Minnesota, USA
  • Also known as: “City of Moorhead”, “Moorhead (Minnesota)”, “Moorhead, Minnesota”, “Moorhead, MN”, “Моорҳеад”, “مورهد، مینه سوتا”, and “穆頭市”
  • Postal codes: 56560-56563
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights: Rourke Art Museum and Comstock House.

Museum
The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum is a fine arts …

Museum
The is a historic house museum in Moorhead, Minnesota, United States.

Museum
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The is a multi-use facility in Moorhead, Minnesota, United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fargo and Dilworth.

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Moorhead

Latitude
46.8739° or 46° 52′ 26″ north
Longitude
-96.7539° or 96° 45′ 14″ west
Population
34,700
Elevation
906 feet (276 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US XIH
Open location code
86R5V6FW+HF
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Open­Street­Map feature
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Moorhead” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مورهد”
  • Arabic: “مورهيد”
  • Basque: “Moorhead”
  • Belarusian: “Мурхед”
  • Catalan: “Moorhead”
  • Cebuano: “Moorhead”
  • Chechen: “Мурхед”
  • Chinese: “穆头市”
  • Chinese: “穆尔黑德”
  • Chinese: “穆爾黑德”
  • Czech: “Moorhead”
  • Dagbani: “Moorhead”
  • Danish: “Moorhead”
  • Dutch: “Moorhead”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مورهيد”
  • Finnish: “Moorhead”
  • French: “Moorhead”
  • German: “Moorhead”
  • Gilaki: “مؤرهد (مينسؤتا)”
  • Gilaki: “مؤرهد”
  • Greek: “Μούρχεντ”
  • Haitian: “Moorhead, Minnesota”
  • Haitian: “Moorhead”
  • Hebrew: “מורהד”
  • Hungarian: “Moorhead”
  • Ido: “Moorhead, Minnesota”
  • Ido: “Moorhead”
  • Irish: “Moorhead”
  • Italian: “Moorhead”
  • Japanese: “ムーアヘッド”
  • Kazakh: “Mwrxïd”
  • Kazakh: “Мурхид”
  • Kazakh: “مۋرحىيد”
  • Kirghiz: “Мурхид”
  • Korean: “무어헤드”
  • Ladin: “Moorhead”
  • Malagasy: “Moorhead, Minnesota”
  • Malagasy: “Moorhead”
  • Mazanderani: “مورهد (مینه‌سوتا)”
  • Mazanderani: “مورهد”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Moorhead”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Moorhead”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Moorhead”
  • Norwegian: “Moorhead”
  • Persian: “مورهد، مینه‌سوتا”
  • Persian: “مورهد”
  • Polish: “Moorhead”
  • Portuguese: “Moorhead”
  • Russian: “Морхед”
  • Russian: “Мурхед”
  • Serbian: “Мурхед”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Moorhead, Minnesota”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Moorhead”
  • Slovak: “Moorhead”
  • Slovenian: “Moorhead”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مورهد، مینه‌سوتا”
  • Spanish: “Moorhead”
  • Swedish: “Moorhead, Minnesota”
  • Swedish: “Moorhead”
  • Tatar: “Мурхед”
  • Turkish: “Moorhead, Minnesota”
  • Turkish: “Moorhead”
  • Ukrainian: “Мурхед”
  • Urdu: “مورہیڈ، مینیسوٹا”
  • Urdu: “مورہیڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Moorhead”
  • Vietnamese: “Moorhead, Minnesota”
  • Vietnamese: “Moorhead”
  • Volapük: “Moorhead”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Moorhead, Minnesota”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Moorhead”
  • Welsh: “Moorhead, Minnesota‎”

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