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.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.
- Type: City with 68,100 residents
- Description: unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
- Postal codes: 20810, 20811, 20813, 20814, 20816, 20817, 20824, 20827, 20889, 20892 and 20894
- Neighbors: Kensington, Potomac and Washington, D.C.
Notable Places in the Area
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
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Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences is a health science university of the U.S. federal government.
National Institutes of Health
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The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH, is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.
Suburban Hospital
Suburban Hospital is a community-based, not-for-profit hospital serving Montgomery County, Maryland, and the surrounding area since 1943.Localities in the Area
Kensington
Photo: Caseyjonz, Public domain.
Kensington is a suburb of Washington, D.C. in the Capital Region of Maryland with a population of about 2,100 people in 2020.
Upper Northwest
The neighborhoods of Washington, D.C.'s Upper Northwest rank among America's most wealthy and privileged.Silver Spring
Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Silver Spring is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Bethesda
Latitude
38.9847° or 38° 59' 5" northLongitude
-77.0942° or 77° 5' 39" westPopulation
68,100Elevation
97 metres (318 feet)United Nations Location Code
US BZHOpen Location Code
87C4XWM4+V8OpenStreetMap ID
node 158248181OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
4348599Wikidata ID
Q584451Bethesda Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Bethesda, Maryland
- Arabic: بيثيسدا
- Armenian: Բետեսդա
- Azerbaijani: Betesda
- Basque: Bethesda (Maryland)
- Basque: Bethesda
- Belarusian: Бэтэзда
- Belarusian: Бэтэсда
- Bengali: বেথেসডা
- 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
- Egyptian Arabic: بيثيسدا ماريلاند
- English: Bethesda, MD
- English: Bethesda, Maryland
- Faroese: Bethesda
- Finnish: Bethesda
- French: Bethesda
- German: Bethesda
- Greek: Βηθεσδά
- Greek: Μπεθέσντα
- Gujarati: બેથેસ્ડા
- Hebrew: בת'סדה
- Hindi: बेथेज़ा
- Hungarian: Bethesda
- Icelandic: Bethesda
- Ido: Bethesda, Maryland
- Ido: Bethesda
- Indonesian: Bethesda
- Irish: Bethesda, Maryland
- Italian: Bethesda
- Japanese: ベセスダ (メリーランド州)
- Japanese: ベセスダ
- Kannada: ಬೆಥೆಸ್ಡಾ
- Korean: 베데스다
- Korean: 베서스다
- Ladin: Bethesda
- Latin: Bethesda
- Latvian: Betesda
- Lithuanian: Betesda
- Luxembourgish: Bethesda
- Malay: Bethesda
- Marathi: बेथेस्डा
- Min Nan Chinese: Bethesda
- Norwegian: Bethesda
- Norwegian Bokmål: Bethesda
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Bethesda
- Persian: بتزدا، مریلند
- Polish: Bethesda
- Portuguese: Bethesda
- Portuguese: Bethesda (Maryland)
- Romanian: Bethesda
- Russian: Бетесда
- Serbian: Бетесда
- Serbo-Croatian: Bethesda, Maryland
- Serbo-Croatian: Bethesda
- Silesian: Bethesda
- Sinhala: බෙතේස්ඩා
- Slovak: Bethesda (Maryland)
- Slovenian: Bethesda, Maryland
- Slovenian: Bethesda
- South Azerbaijani: بتزدا، مریلند
- Spanish: Bethesda
- Spanish: Bethesda (Maryland)
- Swahili: Bethesda, Maryland
- 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, Maryland
- 베세즈다
Other Places Named Bethesda
In the Area
- Downtown BethesdaNeighbourhood
- Bethesda RowNeighbourhood
- WestboroNeighbourhood
- Woodmont TriangleNeighbourhood
- Wisconsin SouthNeighbourhood
- EdgemoorNeighbourhood
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