Bedum

Bedum
—  Municipality  —

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Coordinates:
Country Netherlands
Province Groningen
Area(2006)
 • Total 44.96 km2 (17.4 sq mi)
 • Land 44.58 km2 (17.2 sq mi)
 • Water 0.38 km2 (0.1 sq mi)
Population (1 January 2007)
 • Total 10,617
 • Density 238/km2 (616.4/sq mi)
  Source: CBS, Statline.
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)

Bedum (, Gronings: Beem) is a municipality and a town in the northeastern Netherlands. Populated by around 10,000 (2005) inhabitants, Bedum is one of the larger of Groningen's several satellite towns.

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.

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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.[1]

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