Bethesda

Bethesda is in , , 1½ miles northwest of Wealthy and well-educated, Bethesda is best known for its numerous restaurants and as the headquarters of the National Institutes of Health.
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  • Type: City with 68,100 residents
  • Description: unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
  • Also known as: “Bethesda, Maryland” and “Bethesda, MD”
  • Postal codes: 20810, 20811, 20813, 20814, 20816, 20817, 20824, 20827, 20889, 20892, and 20894
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and National Institutes of Health.

University
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The is a health science university and professional school of the U.S. federal government. The primary mission of the school is to prepare graduates for service to the U.S. at home and abroad as uniformed…

Research institute
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The is the primary agency of the United States federal government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in 1887 and is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

Hospital
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is a community-based, not-for-profit hospital serving , and the surrounding area since 1943. Located in Bethesda, Maryland, Suburban is the designated trauma center for Montgomery County.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kensington and Upper Northwest.

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is a suburb of in the of with a population of about 2,100 people in 2020. The main reasons to visit are antique shopping at Antique Row, to see the enormous Mormon Temple, and one great pizza place.

The neighborhoods of 's rank among America's most wealthy and privileged. There are big attractions, including the outstanding National Zoo, the massive National Cathedral, American University, upscale shopping in Friendship…

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is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, . It is considered to be an "edge city". It sits next door to Washington, DC, and had about 82,000 residents in 2018.

Bethesda

Latitude
38.9847° or 38° 59′ 5″ north
Longitude
-77.0942° or 77° 5′ 39″ west
Population
68,100
Elevation
318 feet (97 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US BZH
Open location code
87C4XWM4+V8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158248181
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4348599
Wiki­data ID
Q584451
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Bethesda” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bethesda, Maryland”
  • Afrikaans: “Bethesda”
  • Arabic: “بيثيسدا”
  • Armenian: “Բետեսդա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Betesda”
  • Basque: “Bethesda”
  • Belarusian: “Бэтэзда”
  • Belarusian: “Бэтэсда”
  • Bengali: “বেথেসডা”
  • Breton: “Bethesda”
  • Bulgarian: “Бетезда”
  • Bulgarian: “Бъдезда”
  • Catalan: “Bethesda”
  • Cebuano: “Bethesda”
  • Central Kurdish: “بێتیسدا”
  • Chinese: “Bethesda”
  • Chinese: “貝塞斯達”
  • Chinese: “贝塞斯达”
  • Czech: “Bethesda”
  • Danish: “Bethesda”
  • Dutch: “Bethesda”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيثيسدا ماريلاند”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيثيسدا”
  • Esperanto: “Bethesda”
  • Faroese: “Bethesda”
  • Finnish: “Bethesda”
  • French: “Bethesda”
  • Galician: “Bethesda”
  • German: “Bethesda”
  • Gilaki: “بتزدا (مريلند)”
  • Gilaki: “بتزدا”
  • Greek: “Βηθεσδά”
  • Greek: “Μπεθέσντα”
  • Gujarati: “બેથેસ્ડા”
  • Hebrew: “בת’סדה”
  • Hindi: “बेथेज़ा”
  • Hindi: “बेथेसडा”
  • Hungarian: “Bethesda”
  • Icelandic: “Bethesda”
  • Ido: “Bethesda, Maryland”
  • Ido: “Bethesda”
  • Indonesian: “Bethesda, Maryland”
  • Indonesian: “Bethesda”
  • Irish: “Bethesda”
  • Italian: “Bethesda”
  • Japanese: “ベセスダ (メリーランド州)”
  • Japanese: “ベセスダ”
  • Kannada: “ಬೆಥೆಸ್ಡಾ”
  • Korean: “베데스다”
  • Korean: “베세즈다”
  • Ladin: “Bethesda”
  • Latin: “Bethesda”
  • Latvian: “Betesda”
  • Lithuanian: “Betesda”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bethesda”
  • Macedonian: “Бетесда”
  • Malay: “Bethesda”
  • Marathi: “बेथेस्डा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bethesda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bethesda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bethesda”
  • Norwegian: “Bethesda”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bethesda”
  • Ossetian: “Бетесдæ”
  • Persian: “بتزدا، مریلند”
  • Persian: “بتزدا”
  • Polish: “Bethesda”
  • Portuguese: “Bethesda (Maryland)”
  • Portuguese: “Bethesda”
  • Romanian: “Bethesda”
  • Russian: “Бетесда”
  • Serbian: “Бетесда”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bethesda, Maryland”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bethesda”
  • Silesian: “Bethesda”
  • Sinhala: “බෙතේස්ඩා”
  • Slovak: “Bethesda”
  • Slovenian: “Bethesda, Maryland”
  • Slovenian: “Bethesda”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بتزدا، مریلند”
  • Spanish: “Bethesda (Maryland)”
  • Spanish: “Bethesda”
  • Swahili: “Bethesda, Maryland”
  • Swahili: “Bethesda”
  • Swedish: “Bethesda, Maryland”
  • Swedish: “Bethesda”
  • Tamil: “பேதேஸ்டா”
  • Tatar: “Бетесда (Мэриленд)”
  • Tatar: “Бетесда”
  • Telugu: “బేతెస్”
  • Thai: “เบเธสดา”
  • Turkish: “Bethesda, Maryland”
  • Turkish: “Bethesda”
  • Ukrainian: “Бетесда”
  • Urdu: “بیتھسڈا، میری لینڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Bethesda”
  • Vietnamese: “Bethesda”
  • Volapük: “Bethesda”
  • Welsh: “Bethesda”

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