Pembina, North Dakota

Pembina is a city in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 592 at the 2010 census. Pembina is located south of the Canada-United States border. Interstate 29 passes on the west side of Pembina, leading north to the Canadian border at Emerson, Manitoba and south to the cities of Grand Forks and Fargo. The Pembina-Emerson border crossing is the busiest between Blaine, Washington and Detroit, Michigan and the fifth busiest along the Canada-United States border. It is one of three 24-hour ports of entry in North Dakota, the others being Portal and Dunseith. The Emerson-Noyes border crossing, located to the east on the Minnesota side of the Red River, also processed cross border traffic until its closure in 2006.