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Bethesda
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unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
Bethesda is an unincorporated community located in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is a significant suburban area in the Washington, D.C. region known for its affluence, quality schools, and major medical and research institutions.
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Maryland
- County
- Montgomery
- Type
- Management organization with county sanction
- Executive director
- Jeff Burton
- Marketing and communications director
- Stephanie Coppula
- Finance and operations director
- Jeff Oyer
- Field operations manager
- Eli Banks
- Office manager
- Chiqui Laboy
- Total
- 13.33 sq mi (34.52 km )
- Land
- 13.26 sq mi (34.35 km )
- Water
- 0.066 sq mi (0.17 km )
- Elevation
- 354 ft (108 m)
- Density
- 5,132/sq mi (1,981.3/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 (EDT)
- Zip codes
- 20800–20899
- Area codes
- 301, 240
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Bethesda
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Montgomery County
- Continent
- North America
- Population
- 68056
- Area
- 34.612873
- Elevation
- 97
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
- Shares border with
- Potomac
- Image
- Bethesda Montage.jpg
- Households
- 26040
- Dialing code
- 240
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- Commons category
- Bethesda, Maryland
- topic's main category
- Category:Bethesda, Maryland
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Bethesda, Maryland
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Bethesda, Maryland
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Bethesda, Maryland
- native label
- Bethesda
- median income
- 159431
- female population
- 32956
- male population
- 29492
- Köppen climate classification
- humid subtropical climate
- water as percent of area
- 0.5652
- per capita income
- 99592
- social media followers
- 14629
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Washington metropolitan area
- P12749
- Aloe otallensis
- P11493
- Al-Mansur
- postal code
- 20894
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Encyclopedic overview
Bethesda (/bəˈθɛzdə/) is an unincorporated, census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. Located just northwest of Washington, D.C., it is a major business and government center of the Washington metropolitan region and a national center for medical research. According to the 2020 census, the community had a population of 68,056.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bethesda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.