Bemidji

Bemidji is a city in and the county seat of , in northern , United States. The population was 14,574 at the 2020 census. According to 2022 census estimates, the city is estimated to have a population of 15,946, making it the largest commercial center between and .
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  • Type: City with 13,400 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Beltrami County, Minnesota, United States
  • Also known as: Bemidji, Minnesota”, “Bemidji, MN”, “Bemijigamaag”, “Bermidji”, and “City of Bemidji
  • Postal codes: 56601 and 56619

Places of Interest

Highlights include Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox and Sanford Center.

Work of art
are the names of a pair of large statues of the American folk hero Paul Bunyan and his ox, located in Bemidji, Minnesota.

Sports venue
The is a 4,700-seat multi-purpose arena and convention center in Bemidji, , that opened in October 2010. On October 18, 2010, the venue was renamed from the Bemidji Regional Events Center to the after Sanford Health Systems purchased naming rights for $2 million over ten years.

Bemidji

Latitude
47.4723° or 47° 28′ 20″ north
Longitude
-94.8833° or 94° 52′ 60″ west
Population
13,400
Elevation
1,365 feet (416 metres)
IATA airport code
BJI
United Nations Location Code
US BJI
Open location code
86V7F4C8+WM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30598409
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5017822
Wiki­data ID
Q730430
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Bemidji” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Bemidji, Minnesota
  • Albanian: Bemidji
  • Arabic: بيمدجي
  • Arabic: بيميدجي
  • Armenian: Բեմիջի
  • Azerbaijani: Bemici
  • Basque: Bemidji
  • Belarusian: Беміджы
  • Catalan: Bemidji
  • Cebuano: Bemidji
  • Chechen: Бемиджи
  • Chinese: Bemidji
  • Chinese: 伯米吉
  • Czech: Bemidji
  • Dagbani: Bemidji
  • Danish: Bemidji
  • Dutch: Bemidji
  • Egyptian Arabic: بيميدجى
  • French: Bemidji
  • German: Bemidji
  • Gilaki: بمیدجی (مينسؤتا)
  • Gilaki: بمیدجی
  • Haitian: Bemidji, Minnesota
  • Haitian: Bemidji
  • Hebrew: במידג’י
  • Hungarian: Bemidji
  • Ido: Bemidji, Minnesota
  • Ido: Bemidji
  • Irish: Bemidji
  • Italian: Bemidji
  • Kazakh: Бэмиджи
  • Kirghiz: Бэмиджи
  • Korean: 베미지
  • Ladin: Bemidji
  • Luxembourgish: Bemidji
  • Malagasy: Bemidji, Minnesota
  • Malagasy: Bemidji
  • Mazanderani: بمیجی (مینه‌سوتا)
  • Mazanderani: بمیجی
  • Min Nan Chinese: Bemidji
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Bemidji
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Bemidji
  • Norwegian: Bemidji
  • Persian: بمیجی، مینه‌سوتا
  • Persian: بمیجی
  • Polish: Bemidji
  • Portuguese: Bemidji
  • Romanian: Bemidji, Minnesota
  • Romanian: Bemidji
  • Russian: Бемиджи
  • Serbian: Бемиџи
  • Serbo-Croatian: Bemidji, Minnesota
  • Serbo-Croatian: Bemidji
  • Slovak: Bemidji
  • South Azerbaijani: بمیجی، مینه‌سوتا
  • Spanish: Bemidji (Minnesota)
  • Spanish: Bemidji
  • Swedish: Bemidji
  • Tatar: Бемиджи
  • Turkish: Bemidji, Minnesota
  • Turkish: Bemidji
  • Ukrainian: Беміджи
  • Urdu: بیمیجی، مینیسوٹا
  • Urdu: بیمیجی
  • Uzbek: Bemidji
  • Vietnamese: Bemidji, Minnesota
  • Vietnamese: Bemidji
  • Volapük: Bemidji
  • Waray (Philippines): Bemidji, Minnesota
  • Waray (Philippines): Bemidji
  • Welsh: Bemidji, Minnesota‎

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bemidji”. Photo: Matthew Stinar, CC BY 2.0.