Bedford
Bedford is the county town and the transport, social, cultural and administrative centre of the shire-county of Bedfordshire in the East of England.
- Type: Town with 80,000 residents
- Description: county town of Bedfordshire, England
- Also known as: “Bedford i Bedfordshire”, “Bedford i England”, “Rhydwely”, “বােডফোর্ড”, “பெட்டிபோர்ட்”, “బెడ్ఫోర్డ్”, and “베드포드”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Bedford railway station and Bedford Castle.
Bedford St Johns railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kempston and Brickhill.
Brickhill
Suburb
Photo: Simonxag, Public domain.Bedford
- Categories: county town, unparished area, market town, and locality
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.1364° or 52° 8′ 11″ north
Longitude
-0.4675° or 0° 28′ 3″ west
Population
80,000
Elevation
98 feet (30 metres)
IATA airport code
XQD
UN/LOCODE
GB BEF
Open location code
9C4X4GPJ+HX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Bedford” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيدفورد”
- Armenian: “Բեդֆորդ”
- Asturian: “Bedford”
- Basque: “Bedford”
- Belarusian: “Бедфард”
- Belarusian: “Бэдфард”
- Bengali: “বেডফোর্ড”
- Catalan: “Bedford”
- Cebuano: “Bedford (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Bedford)”
- Cebuano: “Bedford”
- Chinese: “百福”
- Chinese: “貝德福”
- Chinese: “貝德福德”
- Chinese: “贝德福德”
- Czech: “Bedford”
- Danish: “Bedford”
- Dutch: “Bedford”
- Esperanto: “Bedford”
- Finnish: “Bedford”
- French: “Bedford”
- German: “Bedford”
- Greek: “Μπέντφορντ”
- Gujarati: “બેડફોર્ડ”
- Hebrew: “בדפורד”
- Hindi: “बेडफोर्ड”
- Hungarian: “Bedford”
- Icelandic: “Bedford”
- Indonesian: “Bedford”
- Irish: “Bedford”
- Italian: “Bedford”
- Japanese: “ベッドフォード”
- Kannada: “ಬೆಡ್ಫೋರ್ಡ್”
- Korean: “베드퍼드”
- Kurdish: “Bedford, Bedfordshire”
- Kurdish: “Bedford”
- Ladin: “Bedford”
- Latin: “Bedfordia”
- Latvian: “Bedforda”
- Lithuanian: “Bedfordas”
- Lombard: “Bedford”
- Luxembourgish: “Bedford”
- Macedonian: “Бедфорд”
- Malagasy: “Bedford”
- Malay: “Bedford”
- Maltese: “Bedford”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bedford”
- Moksha: “Бэдфорд”
- Northern Frisian: “Bedford”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bedford”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bedford”
- Norwegian: “Bedford”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Beadanford”
- Ossetian: “Бедфорд”
- Persian: “بدفورد، انگلستان”
- Persian: “بدفورد”
- Polish: “Bedford”
- Portuguese: “Bedford”
- Romanian: “Bedford”
- Russian: “Бедфорд”
- Serbian: “Bedford”
- Serbian: “Бедфорд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bedford”
- Silesian: “Bedford”
- Slovak: “Bedford”
- Slovenian: “Bedford, Anglija”
- Slovenian: “Bedford”
- South Azerbaijani: “بدفورد، اینگیلیس”
- Spanish: “Bedford”
- Swedish: “Bedford”
- Tamil: “பெட்டிபோர்ட”
- Tatar: “Бедфорд”
- Telugu: “బెడ్ ఫోర్డ్”
- Turkish: “Bedford”
- Ukrainian: “Бедфорд”
- Urdu: “بیڈفورڈ”
- Uzbek: “Bedford”
- Venetian: “Bedford”
- Vietnamese: “Bedford”
- Volapük: “Bedford”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bedford”
- Welsh: “Bedford”
- Western Frisian: “Bedford”
- Yiddish: “בעדפארד”
- Yue Chinese: “百福”
- “Bedford”
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