Bethesda
Bethesda is in Montgomery County, Maryland, 1½ miles northwest of Washington, D.C. Wealthy and well-educated, Bethesda is best known for its numerous restaurants and as the headquarters of the National Institutes of Health.
- City with about 68,100 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 320 feet (100 metres)
- Description: unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
- Postal codes2081020811208132081420816208172082420827208892089220894
- Also known as“Bethesda, Maryland”“Bethesda, MD”
- Neighbors
Places of Interest
Highlights include Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and National Institutes of Health.
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
The Uniformed Services University of the Health…
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health is the primary…
Suburban Hospital
Suburban Hospital is a community-based, not-for-profit…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kensington and Upper Northwest.
Upper Northwest
The neighborhoods of Washington, D.C.'s Upper…
Silver Spring
Silver Spring is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Bethesda
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Latitude
38.9847° or 38° 59′ 5″ north
Longitude
-77.0942° or 77° 5′ 39″ west
UN/LOCODE
US BZH
Open location code
87C4XWM4+V8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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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: “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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