East Grand Forks is a city in Polk County, Minnesota in the United States. The population was 7,501 at the 2000 census. It is located in the Red River Valley region on the eastern banks of the Red River of the North, directly across from the larger city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. It is a core city of the "Grand Forks, ND-MN Metropolitan Statistical Area" or "Greater Grand Forks".

The famous Whitey's Bar and Cafe is a local institution. Located in the downtown area, Whitey's has been operating continuously since the 1930s and was once the center of East Grand Forks' reputation as a wild town akin to Chicago, Illinois during the days of Prohibition. Ripley's Believe It or Not once labeled a portion of the downtown area as the highest concentration of neon signage in the world.