Bedum
Sign in to saveBedum (; ) is a former municipality and a town in the northeastern Netherlands. Populated by an unknown number of inhabitants () in , Bedum is one of the larger of Groningen's several satellite towns. On 1 January 2019 it merged with the municipalities of De Marne, Eemsmond and Winsum to form the new municipality Het Hogeland.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Bedum
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Former municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- 20080511 Church Westerdijkshorn Groningen NL.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Church in Westerdijkshorn
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Bedum.svg
- Settlement.flag_size
- 100x67px
- Settlement.image_shield
- Bedum wapen.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 100x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Map - NL - Municipality code 0005 (2009).svg
- Settlement.map_alt
- Highlighted position of Bedum in a municipal map of Groningen
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location in Groningen
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Netherlands Groningen#Netherlands
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in the Netherlands
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Netherlands
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of the Netherlands
- Named after
- Bedum
- Official name
- Bedum
- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- Groningen
- Population
- 6920
- Area
- 44.96
- Elevation
- -1
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Groningen
- Official website
- www.bedum.nl
- Image
- 20080511 Church Westerdijkshorn Groningen NL.jpg
- Households
- 4344
- Dialing code
- 050
Show 6 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Bedum
- twinned administrative body
- Peitz
- postal code
- 9959
- Commons category
- Bedum
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Bedum
- native label
- Bedum
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- The leaning tower
- Former population centres
- Notable people
- Gallery
- References
- External links
Bedum (; ) is a former municipality and a town in the northeastern Netherlands. Populated by an unknown number of inhabitants () in , Bedum is one of the larger of Groningen's several satellite towns. On 1 January 2019 it merged with the municipalities of De Marne, Eemsmond and Winsum to form the new municipality Het Hogeland.
Bedum is the site of three supermarkets, several pubs, and a leaning church tower, dubbed "the leaning tower of Bedum". Footballer Arjen Robben was born in Bedum (23 January 1984).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bedum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations