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Bielefeld

Bielefeld is a city in , with around 300,000 citizens. According to a German internet meme, this city does not exist. Incidentally this is the one thing almost all Germans know about the town.
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  • Type: City with 329,000 residents
  • Description: city in Germany
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bielefelder Alm and Kunsthalle Bielefeld.

Stadium
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is a football in Bielefeld, which is home of the football club DSC Arminia Bielefeld and mostly used for the club's matches.

Museum
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The is a modern and contemporary art museum in Bielefeld, Germany. It was designed by Philip Johnson in 1968, and paid for by the businessman and art patron Rudolf August Oetker.

Railway station
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Bielefeld Hauptbahnhof is the main station in the region of , in the German state of . It is an important station because of the size of the city of Bielefeld and its location at the Bielefeld Pass, which makes it a node for long-distance and regional traffic.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bethel.

Quarter
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is a quarter.

Bielefeld

Latitude
52.0191° or 52° 1′ 9″ north
Longitude
8.531° or 8° 31′ 52″ east
Population
329,000
Elevation
111 metres (364 feet)
IATA airport code
BFE
United Nations Location Code
DE BFE
Open location code
9F4C2G9J+JC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240037709
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2949186
Wiki­data ID
Q2112
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bielefeld” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bielefeld”
  • Albanian: “Bielefeld”
  • Arabic: “بيلفلد”
  • Arabic: “بيليفيلد”
  • Aragonese: “Bielefeld”
  • Armenian: “Բիլեֆելդ”
  • Arpitan: “Bielefeld”
  • Asturian: “Bielefeld”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bielefeld”
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  • Bashkir: “Билефельд”
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  • Bavarian: “Bielefeld”
  • Belarusian: “Білефельд”
  • Belarusian: “Білефэльд”
  • Bengali: “বীলেফেল্ড”
  • Breton: “Bielefeld”
  • Bulgarian: “Билефелд”
  • Catalan: “Bielefeld”
  • Cebuano: “Bielefeld (kapital sa munisipyo)”
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  • Central Kurdish: “بیلفێلد”
  • Chechen: “Билефельд”
  • Chinese: “Bielefeld”
  • Chinese: “比勒費爾德”
  • Chinese: “比勒费尔德”
  • Chuvash: “Билефелд”
  • Corsican: “Bielefeld”
  • Croatian: “Bielefeld”
  • Czech: “Bielefeld”
  • Danish: “Bielefeld”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bielefeld”
  • Dutch: “Bielefeld”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيليفيلد”
  • Esperanto: “Bielefeld”
  • Estonian: “Bielefeld”
  • Finnish: “Bielefeld”
  • French: “Bielefeld”
  • Friulian: “Bielefeld”
  • Galician: “Bielefeld”
  • Georgian: “ბილეფელდი”
  • Georgian: “ბილეფილდი”
  • German: “Beilefeld”
  • German: “Bielefeld”
  • German: “Builefeild”
  • German: “Builefeld”
  • German: “Leineweberstadt”
  • Greek: “Μπίλεφελντ”
  • Gujarati: “બીલેફેલ્ડ”
  • Hausa: “Bielefeld”
  • Hebrew: “בילפלד”
  • Hindi: “बीएलफेल्ड”
  • Hungarian: “Bielefeld”
  • Icelandic: “Bielefeld”
  • Ido: “Bielefeld”
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  • Irish: “Bielefeld”
  • Italian: “Bielefeld”
  • Japanese: “ビーレフェルト”
  • Kannada: “ಬೈಲ್ಫೆಲ್ಡ್”
  • Kazakh: “Билефельд”
  • Kirghiz: “Билефельд”
  • Kölsch: “Bielefeld”
  • Kongo: “Bielefeld”
  • Korean: “빌레펠트”
  • Kotava: “Bielefeld”
  • Kurdish: “Bielefeld”
  • Ladin: “Bielefeld”
  • Latin: “Bilefeldia”
  • Latin: “Bilivelda”
  • Latvian: “Bīlefelde”
  • Ligurian: “Bielefeld”
  • Limburgan: “Bielefeld”
  • Lithuanian: “Bylefeldas”
  • Low German: “Bielefeld”
  • Low German: “Builefeld”
  • Low German: “Byleveld”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bielefeld”
  • Macedonian: “Билефелд”
  • Malagasy: “Bielefeld”
  • Malay: “Bielefeld”
  • Manx: “Bielefeld”
  • Marathi: “बीलेफेल्ड”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bielefeld”
  • Minangkabau: “Bielefeld”
  • Moksha: “Билэфэльд”
  • Mongolian: “Билефельд”
  • Narom: “Bielefeld”
  • Neapolitan: “Bielefeld”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bielefeld”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bielefeld”
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  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bielefeld”
  • Old Saxon: “Bīlifeld”
  • Ossetian: “Билефельд”
  • Persian: “بیلفلد”
  • Persian: “بیله‌فلد”
  • Picard: “Bielefeld”
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  • Portuguese: “Bielefeld”
  • Quechua: “Bielefeld”
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  • Russian: “Билефельд”
  • Sardinian: “Bielefeld”
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  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bielefeld”
  • Serbian: “Bielefeld”
  • Serbian: “Билефелд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bielefeld”
  • Sicilian: “Bielefeld”
  • Silesian: “Bielefeld”
  • Sinhala: “බීල්ෆෙල්ඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Bielefeld”
  • Slovenian: “Bielefeld”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیله‌فلد”
  • Spanish: “Bielefeld”
  • Swahili: “Bielefeld”
  • Swedish: “Bielefeld”
  • Swiss German: “Bielefeld”
  • Tamil: “பிஏலேபில்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Билефелд”
  • Telugu: “బియెలెఫిల్డ్”
  • Thai: “บีเลอเฟ็ลท์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bielefeld”
  • Tumbuka: “Bielefeld”
  • Turkish: “Bielefeld”
  • Ukrainian: “Білефельд”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bielefeld”
  • Urdu: “بیئلفیلڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Bielefeld”
  • Venetian: “Bielefeld”
  • Vietnamese: “Bielefeld”
  • Vlaams: “Bielefeld”
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  • Walloon: “Bielefeld”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bielefeld”
  • Welsh: “Bielefeld”
  • Western Frisian: “Bielefeld”
  • Western Panjabi: “بیلفیلڈ”
  • Wolof: “Bielefeld”
  • Wu Chinese: “比勒费尔德”
  • Yue Chinese: “比勒費爾德”
  • Zulu: “Bielefeld”
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