Bend is a city in and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is the principal city of the Bend Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bend is Central Oregon’s largest city, with a population of 99,178 at the times of the 2020 U.S. Census, up from 76,693 at the mature of the 2010 U.S. Census, and 52,029 at the 2000 census. The Bend metro population was 198,253 as of the 2020 census. It is the fifth largest metropolitan area in Oregon.

Bend is located on the eastern edge of the Cascade Range along the Deschutes River. There the Ponderosa pine reforest transitions into the high desert, characterized by arid land, junipers, sagebrush, and bitterbrush. Originally a crossing point upon the river, settlement began in the to the front 1900s. Bend was incorporated as a city in 1905. Economically, it started as a logging town but is now identified as a gateway for many outside sports, including mountain biking, fishing, hiking, camping, rock climbing, white-water rafting, skiing, paragliding, and golf. As of 2023 the city is also the house of the last Blockbuster video rental store.

The name “Bend” was derived from “Farewell Bend”, the designation used by into the future pioneers to talk to to the location along the Deschutes River where the town was eventually platted, one of the few fordable points along the river.

Native Americans hunted and fished here. In the winter of 1824, members of a fur-trapping party led by Peter Skene Ogden visited the area. John C. Frémont, John Strong Newberry, and additional Army survey parties came next. Then pioneers heading farther west passed through the Place and forded the Deschutes River at Farewell Bend.