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Bellingham

Bellingham, the "City of Subdued Excitement", is a city of 92,000 people in the of . It is the northernmost city in the contiguous 48 states.
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  • Type: City with 91,500 residents
  • Description: city in, and the county seat of, Whatcom County in the State of Washington, United States
  • Also known as: “Bellingham, WA” and “Bellingham, Washington”
  • Postal codes: 98225-98228

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pickett House and SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention.

Museum
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The is the oldest house in the city of Bellingham, Washington, located on 910 Bancroft Street. Built in 1856 by United States Army Captain George Pickett, who later became a prominent general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

Museum
The is an interactive located in Bellingham, , United States, which offers educational experiences for audiences of all ages through galleries and public programs that illustrate the development and use of electricity, radio and the related inventions that changed the course of human history.

Theater building
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The is a 1,517-seat performing arts venue and national historic landmark in Bellingham, Washington, United States. The theater hosts professional productions and concerts as well as community performances from the north of Puget Sound.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fairhaven.

Suburb
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was a settlement in state founded in 1883 by Dan Harris. In 1903, it became part of the city of Bellingham and remains a historic neighborhood.

Bellingham

Latitude
48.7544° or 48° 45′ 16″ north
Longitude
-122.4788° or 122° 28′ 44″ west
Population
91,500
Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)
IATA airport code
BLI
United Nations Location Code
US BLI
Open location code
84WVQG3C+QF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 40207774
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5786899
Wiki­data ID
Q430267
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Bellingham” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيلينغام”
  • Armenian: “Բելինգհեմ”
  • Asturian: “Bellingham”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bellinqham”
  • Basque: “Bellingham”
  • Belarusian: “Белінгем”
  • Belarusian: “Вашынгтон”
  • Bengali: “বেলিংহাম”
  • Bulgarian: “Белингам”
  • Catalan: “Bellingham”
  • Cebuano: “Bellingham”
  • Chechen: “Беллингем”
  • Chinese: “Bellingham”
  • Chinese: “贝灵厄姆”
  • Croatian: “Bellingham (Washington)”
  • Croatian: “Bellingham, Washington”
  • Croatian: “Bellingham”
  • Czech: “Bellingham”
  • Dagbani: “Bellingham”
  • Danish: “Bellingham”
  • Dutch: “Bellingham”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيلينجام”
  • Esperanto: “Bellingham”
  • Finnish: “Bellingham”
  • French: “Bellingham”
  • German: “Bellingham”
  • Gilaki: “بلينگهم (واشينگتن)”
  • Gilaki: “بلينگهم”
  • Greek: “Μπέλινγχαμ”
  • Gujarati: “બેલિંઘમ”
  • Haitian: “Bellingham, Washington”
  • Haitian: “Bellingham”
  • Hebrew: “בלינגהאם”
  • Hindi: “बेलिंघम”
  • Hungarian: “Bellingham”
  • Indonesian: “Bellingham”
  • Irish: “Bellingham”
  • Italian: “Bellingham”
  • Japanese: “ベリンガム”
  • Japanese: “ベリンハム”
  • Kannada: “ಬೆಲ್ಲಿಂಘ್ಯಾಮ್”
  • Korean: “벨링햄”
  • Ladin: “Bellingham”
  • Latvian: “Belingema”
  • Latvian: “Bilingema”
  • Lithuanian: “Belinghamas”
  • Malagasy: “Bellingham, Washington”
  • Malagasy: “Bellingham”
  • Malay: “Bellingham”
  • Marathi: “बेलिंघम”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bellingham”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bellingham”
  • Norwegian: “Bellingham”
  • Novial: “Bellingham, Washington”
  • Novial: “Bellingham”
  • Persian: “بلینگهام، واشینگتن”
  • Persian: “بلینگهام”
  • Polish: “Bellingham”
  • Portuguese: “Bellingham”
  • Romanian: “Bellingham, Washington”
  • Romanian: “Bellingham”
  • Russian: “Беллингхем”
  • Serbian: “Белингам”
  • Serbian: “Белингхам”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bellingham, Washington”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bellingham”
  • Sinhala: “බෙලින්ග්හැම්”
  • Slovak: “Bellingham”
  • Slovenian: “Bellingham”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بلینقهام، واشینقتون”
  • Spanish: “Bellingham (Washington)”
  • Spanish: “Bellingham”
  • Swedish: “Bellingham, Washington”
  • Swedish: “Bellingham”
  • Talysh: “Bellinghem”
  • Tamil: “பெலிங்காம்”
  • Tatar: “Беллингем”
  • Telugu: “బెల్లింగ్హామ్”
  • Thai: “เบลลิงแฮม”
  • Turkish: “Bellingham, Washington”
  • Turkish: “Bellingham”
  • Ukrainian: “Беллінгем”
  • Ukrainian: “Беллінгхем”
  • Urdu: “بیلنگہیم، واشنگٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Bellingham”
  • Vietnamese: “Bellingham, Washington”
  • Vietnamese: “Bellingham”
  • Volapük: “Bellingham”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bellingham, Washington”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bellingham”
  • Welsh: “Bellingham, Washington”
  • Welsh: “Bellingham”
  • Western Panjabi: “بیلنگہام”

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