Bedum

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Bedum
Beem (Gronings)
Former municipality
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Church in Westerdijkshorn
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Location in Groningen
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Bedum
Location in the Netherlands
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Bedum
Bedum (Netherlands)
Coordinates: 53°18′N6°36′E / 53.300°N 6.600°E / 53.300; 6.600
Country Netherlands
Province Groningen
Area
[1]
  Total25.03 km2 (9.66 sq mi)
Elevation
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−1 m (−3 ft)
Population
 (2021) [1]
  Total8,650
  Density350/km2 (900/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode
9781 [1]
Area code 050
Website www.bedum.nl

Bedum (Dutch: [ˈbeːdʏm] ; Gronings : Beem [beɪ̯m] ) is a former municipality and a town in the northeastern Netherlands. Populated by data missing inhabitants in 2021, Bedum is one of the larger of Groningen's several satellite towns. On 1 January 2019 it merged with the municipalities of De Marne, Eemsmond and Winsum to form the new municipality Het Hogeland.

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Bedum is the site of three supermarkets, several pubs, and a leaning church tower, dubbed "the leaning tower of Bedum". Footballer Arjen Robben was born in Bedum (23 January 1984).

Bedum has a railway station - Bedum railway station.

The leaning tower

Bedum's 36-metre tower of the St Walfridus church has been calculated as now leaning at a greater angle than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. If both towers were the same height, Bedum's would have a greater displacement by 6 cm. [3]

Former population centres

Notable people

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