New Bedford
New Bedford is in Massachusetts on the southern coast. New Bedford's excellent harbor made it a natural fishing and whaling center. It was the world's premier whaling port in the 19th century, and, for a time, "the richest city in the world" and "the city that lit the world" because of whale oil production.
Photo: Kevin Saff, Public domain.
- Type: City with 92,500 residents
- Description: city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
- Also known as: “Achushena”, “Acushnet Village”, “New Bedford (Massachusetts)”, “New Bedford, MA”, “New Bedford, Massachusetts”, and “ニューベッドフォード (マサチューセッツ州)”
- Postal codes: 02740-02742 and 02744-02746
Places of Interest
Highlights: New Bedford Whaling Museum and New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fairhaven and Bliss Corner.
New Bedford
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.6362° or 41° 38′ 10″ north
Longitude
-70.9342° or 70° 56′ 3″ west
Population
92,500
Elevation
95 feet (29 metres)
Open location code
87HFJ3P8+F8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“New Bedford” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نيو بدفورد”
- Armenian: “Նյու բեդֆորդ”
- Asturian: “New Bedford”
- Basque: “New Bedford”
- Belarusian: “Нью-Бэдфард”
- Breton: “New Bedford”
- Catalan: “New Bedford”
- Cebuano: “New Bedford”
- Central Kurdish: “نیوبێدفۆرد”
- Chamorro: “New Bedford”
- Chechen: “Нью-Бедфорд”
- Chinese: “新百福”
- Chinese: “新貝德福德”
- Chinese: “新贝德福德”
- Cornish: “New Bedford, Massachusetts”
- Cornish: “New Bedford”
- Czech: “New Bedford”
- Dagbani: “New Bedford”
- Danish: “New Bedford”
- Dutch: “New Bedford”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نيو بدفورد”
- Estonian: “New Bedford”
- Finnish: “New Bedford”
- French: “New Bedford”
- Galician: “New Bedford”
- German: “New Bedford”
- Gilaki: “نيۊبدفؤرد (ماساچۊست)”
- Gilaki: “نيۊبدفؤرد”
- Haitian: “New Bedford, Massachusetts”
- Haitian: “New Bedford”
- Hebrew: “ניו בדפורד”
- Hungarian: “New Bedford”
- Indonesian: “New Bedford, Massachusetts”
- Indonesian: “New Bedford”
- Irish: “New Bedford, Massachusetts”
- Irish: “New Bedford”
- Italian: “New Bedford”
- Japanese: “ニュー・ベッドフォード”
- Japanese: “ニューベッドフォード”
- Kazakh: “Нью Бэдфорд”
- Kirghiz: “Нью Бэдфорд”
- Korean: “뉴베드퍼드”
- Ladin: “New Bedford”
- Lithuanian: “Niu Bedfordas”
- Malagasy: “New Bedford, Massachusetts”
- Malagasy: “New Bedford”
- Malayalam: “ന്യൂ ബെഡ്ഫോർഡ്”
- Mazanderani: “نیوبدفورد (ماساچوست)”
- Mazanderani: “نیوبدفورد”
- Min Nan Chinese: “New Bedford”
- Moksha: “Нью Бэдфорд”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “New Bedford”
- Norwegian: “New Bedford”
- Occitan (post 1500): “New Bedford”
- Persian: “بدفورد جدید، ماساچوست”
- Persian: “بدفورد جدید”
- Persian: “نیوبدفورد”
- Polish: “New Bedford”
- Portuguese: “New Bedford”
- Romanian: “New Bedford, Massachusetts”
- Romanian: “New Bedford”
- Russian: “Нью-Бедфорд”
- Scottish Gaelic: “New Bedford, Massachusetts”
- Scottish Gaelic: “New Bedford”
- Serbian: “Њу Бедфорд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “New Bedford, Massachusetts”
- Serbo-Croatian: “New Bedford”
- Slovak: “New Bedford”
- Slovenian: “New Bedford”
- South Azerbaijani: “بدفورد جدید، ماساچوست”
- Spanish: “New Bedford”
- Swahili: “New Bedford, Massachusetts”
- Swahili: “New Bedford”
- Swedish: “New Bedford”
- Talysh: “Nju Bedford”
- Tatar: “Нью-Бедфорд”
- Thai: “นิวเบดฟอร์ด”
- Turkish: “New Bedford”
- Ukrainian: “Нью-Бедфорд”
- Urdu: “نیو بیڈفورڈ، میساچوسٹس”
- Urdu: “نیو بیڈفورڈ”
- Uzbek: “New Bedford”
- Vietnamese: “New Bedford, Massachusetts”
- Vietnamese: “New Bedford”
- Volapük: “New Bedford”
- Waray (Philippines): “New Bedford, Massachusetts”
- Waray (Philippines): “New Bedford”
- Welsh: “New Bedford, Massachusetts”
- Welsh: “New Bedford”
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