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New Bedford

New Bedford is in 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.
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  • Type: City with 92,500 residents
  • Description: city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Achushena”, “Acushnet Village”, “New Bedford, MA”, and “New Bedford, Massachusetts”
  • Postal codes: 02740-02742 and 02744-02746

Places of Interest

Highlights include New Bedford Whaling Museum and New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park.

Museum
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The is a museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States that focuses on the history, science, art, and culture of the international whaling industry, and the colonial region of Old Dartmouth in the .

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is a United States National Historical Park in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Partially owned by several entities and maintained by the National Park Service, the park commemorates the heritage of the world's preeminent whaling port during the nineteenth century.

Hospital
St. Luke's Hospital is a located at 101 Page Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fairhaven and Bliss Corner.

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is a town in , United States. It is located on the of Massachusetts where the flows into , an arm of the Atlantic Ocean.

Hamlet
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is a census-designated place in the town of in , , United States. The population was 5,280 at the 2010 census.

New Bedford

Latitude
41.6362° or 41° 38′ 10″ north
Longitude
-70.9342° or 70° 56′ 3″ west
Population
92,500
Elevation
95 feet (29 metres)
IATA airport code
EWB
United Nations Location Codes
US BED and US NBD
Open location code
87HFJ3P8+F8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158866627
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4945121
Wiki­data ID
Q49147
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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: “New Bedford”
  • 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 (マサチューセッツ州)”
  • Japanese: “ニューベッドフォード”
  • Kazakh: “Нью Бэдфорд”
  • Kirghiz: “Нью Бэдфорд”
  • Korean: “뉴베드퍼드”
  • Ladin: “New Bedford”
  • 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 (Massachusetts)”
  • Spanish: “New Bedford”
  • Swahili: “New Bedford, Massachusetts”
  • Swahili: “New Bedford”
  • Swedish: “New Bedford”
  • Talysh: “Nju Bedford”
  • Tatar: “Нью-Бедфорд”
  • Thai: “นิวเบดฟอร์ด”
  • Turkish: “New Bedford, Massachusetts”
  • 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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