title: Bedum
text: # Bedum
  
  Bedum (Dutch: (listen); Gronings: Beem) 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.
  
  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.
  
  ## Former population centres
  
  * Bedum
  * Noordwolde
  * Onderdendam
  * Zuidwolde
  * Ellerhuizen
  * Westerdijkshorn
  
  ## Notable people
  
  * Arjen Robben, professional footballer
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * 't Blauw Borgje in winter
  * Bridge over Boterdiep
  * Air watchtower in Bedum
  * Topographic map of Bedum, June 2015
  