Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of tongue cancer diagnosed at KBC Split during the six year period from January 1st 2012 to December 31st 2017. Materials and methods: All samples diagnosed with tongue cancer at the Department of pathology, medical jurisprudence and citology of Clinical hospital center Split from January 1st 2012 to December 31st 2017 were included in this study. All the pathohistological findings were taken from the data base after which the information on age and sex of the patients, tumor size, histological type and differentiation rate was used. In cases when patients were surgically treated at KBC Split, both the data on tumor size and lymph node status were taken. Results: In the period of 6 years 106 patients were diagnosed with tongue cancer. Most of the patients (n=68) had tissue biopsy while 38 patients underwent surgery after the biopsy was performed. Tongue cancer has a higher incidence in male patients (83,9%) compared to female patients (16,1%). They are most common between 50 and 70 years of age (58,5%). The most common histological type of the cancer is the planocellular, conventional type cancer (96%), followed by basaloid (4,7%), verrucous (0,95%) and adenoid cystic(0,95%). Most of the cancers are moderately (55,1%) and well differentiated (35,5%), while poorly differentiated carcinomas have the lowest incidence (13,3%). Two thirds of surgically treated patients had cervical lymph nodes metastasis. Conclusion: Epidemiologic profile of the cancer in our population indicates a much higher incidence in male and older patients. The dominant histological subtype is conventional type planocellular cancer, being moderately and well differentiated in most cases while other histological types and poorly differentiated cancers occur much more rarely. Most of the surgically treated patients had regional lymph node metastasis.