Niagara River
The Niagara River is a river that flows north from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. It forms part of the border between the province of Ontario in Canada and the state of New York in the United States.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Notable Places in the Area
Fort Niagara Beach
Photo: Charny, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Niagara, also known as Old Fort Niagara, is a fortification originally built by New France…
Fort Niagara Light
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Fort Niagara Light is an inactive lighthouse on the Niagara River on the south shore of Lake Ontario in New York state.
Navy Hall
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Navy Hall is a wooden structure encased within a stone structure that was the site of Upper Canada's first provincial parliament, from 1792 to 1796.
Localities in the Area
Youngstown
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Youngstown is the northwesternmost community in the state of New York.
Niagara-on-the-Lake
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Niagara-on-the-Lake is a town of 19,000 people in the Niagara Region of Ontario.
Towers Corners
Towers Corners is a hamlet in the town of Porter in Niagara County, New York, United States. Towers Corners is situated 3½ km east of Niagara River.Niagara River
- Type: Stream
- Description: watercourse on the boundary of Canada and the United States
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.26681° or 43° 16' 1" northLongitude
-79.04957° or 79° 2' 59" westElevation
87 metres (285 feet)Open Location Code
87M27X82+P5GeoNames ID
6087910Wikidata ID
Q182343Niagara River Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Albanian: Niagara
- Arabic: نياجارا
- Armenian: Նիագարա
- Armenian: Նիակարա
- Asturian: Ríu Niagara
- Azerbaijani: Niaqara çayı
- Basque: Niagara
- Basque: Niagara ibaia
- Bavarian: Niagara River
- Belarusian: Ніягара
- Belarusian: Рака Ніягара
- Bengali: নায়াগ্রা নদী
- Bosnian: Niagara
- Bosnian: Nijagara
- Bulgarian: Ниагара
- Catalan: Riu Niàgara
- Cebuano: Niagara River (suba sa Tinipong Bansa)
- Cebuano: Niagara River
- Central Kurdish: ڕووباری نیاگارا
- Chinese: 尼亚加拉河
- Chinese: 尼亞加拉河
- Chinese: 尼加拉河
- Chuvash: Ниагара
- Croatian: Niagara
- Czech: Niagara
- Czech: Niagára
- Danish: Niagara-floden
- Danish: Niagara floden
- Dutch: Niagara
- Dutch: Niagara River
- Egyptian Arabic: نهر نياجارا
- English: Niagara
- Esperanto: Niagara
- Esperanto: Niagaro
- Estonian: Niagara jõgi
- Faroese: Niagaraá
- Finnish: Niagara
- French: Niagara
- French: rivière Niagara
- Galician: Río Niágara
- Georgian: ნიაგარა
- German: Niagara-Fluss
- German: Niagara River
- Greek: Νιαγάρας
- Hebrew: נהר הניאגרה
- Hebrew: נהר ניאגרה
- Hebrew: ניאגרה
- Irish: Abhainn Niagara
- Italian: Niagara
- Japanese: ナイアガラ川
- Kazakh: Nïagara
- Kazakh: Ниагара
- Kazakh: نىياگارا
- Kirghiz: Ниагара
- Korean: 나이아가라강
- Lithuanian: Niagara
- Macedonian: Нијагара
- Malay: Sungai Niagara
- Malayalam: നയാഗ്ര നദി
- Marathi: नायगारा नदी
- Marathi: नायाग्रा नदी
- Mingrelian: ნიაგარა (წყარმალუ)
- Mingrelian: ნიაგარა
- Norwegian: Niagara
- Norwegian Bokmål: Niagara
- Norwegian Bokmål: Niagara River
- Norwegian Bokmål: Niagaraelva
- Norwegian Bokmål: Niagaraelven
- Norwegian Bokmål: Niagarafloden
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Niagara
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Niagara Ēa
- Persian: رودخانه نیاگارا
- Persian: رودخانهٔ نیاگارا
- Persian: رود نیاگارا
- Polish: Niagara
- Portuguese: Rio Niagara
- Portuguese: Rio Niágara
- Romanian: Niagara
- Romanian: Niagara River
- Russian: Niagara
- Russian: Ниагара
- Scots: Niagara River
- Serbian: Nijagara
- Serbian: Нијагара
- Serbian: Река Нијагара
- Serbo-Croatian: Niagara
- Slovak: Niagara
- Slovenian: Niagara
- Slovenian: Niagara River
- Slovenian: reka Niagara
- Spanish: Rio Niagara
- Spanish: Rio Niágara
- Spanish: Río Niagara
- Spanish: Río Niágara
- Swahili: Mto Niagara
- Swedish: Niagara River
- Swedish: Niagarafloden
- Tamil: நயாகரா ஆறு
- Tatar: Ниагара
- Telugu: నయాగరా నది
- Turkish: Niagara Nehri
- Ukrainian: Ніагара
- Ukrainian: Нїяґара
- Venetian: Niagara
- Vietnamese: sông Niagara
- Welsh: Afon Niagara
- Western Armenian: Նիակարա
- Wu Chinese: 尼亚加拉河
- Yue Chinese: 尼亞加拉河
- Rivière Niagara
- Sông Niagara
Other Places Named Niagara River
Localities in the Area
- Mississauga BeachLocality, 3 km west
- Youngstown EstatesHamlet, 3½ km south
- Niagara FanArea, 4 km northwest
- Collingwood EstatesHamlet, 4 km south
- BlairvilleHamlet, 4½ km southeast
Landmarks in the Area
- Fort Niagara State ParkPark
- Fort Niagara CemeteryCemetery
- Lieu historique national du Canada du Fort-GeorgeReserve
- Falkner ParkPark
- Youngstown Free LibraryLibrary
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Niagara River. Photo: NASA, Public domain.