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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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: Kensington, Potomac, and Washington, D.C.
Places of Interest
Highlights include United States National Library of Medicine and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
United States National Library of Medicine
Library
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The United States National Library of Medicine, operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library. Located in Bethesda, Maryland, the NLM is an institute within the National Institutes of Health.
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
University
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Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences 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…
National Institutes of Health
Research institute
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The National Institutes of Health 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kensington and Upper Northwest.
Kensington
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Kensington is a suburb of Washington, D.C. in the Capital Region of Maryland 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.
Upper Northwest
The neighborhoods of Washington, D.C.'s Upper Northwest 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…Silver Spring
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Silver Spring is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland. 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″ northLongitude
-77.0942° or 77° 5′ 39″ westPopulation
68,100Elevation
318 feet (97 metres)United Nations Location Code
US BZHOpen location code
87C4XWM4+V8OpenStreetMap ID
node 158248181OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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”
- 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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