Bedum

Template:Infobox settlement Bedum (Template:IPA; Template:Langx Template:IPA) is a former municipality and a town in the northeastern Netherlands. Populated by an unknown number of inhabitants (Template:Dutch municipality population) in Template:YEAR, 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.

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.<ref>Dutch say Pisa no longer Europe's most leaning tower, Reuters, 28 August 2009</ref>