Beclean (Romanian pronunciation: [beˈkle̯an] ⓘ; Hungarian and German: Bethlen) is a town in Bistrița-Năsăud County, in north-eastern Transylvania, Romania.

The town administers three villages: Coldău (Goldau; Várkudu), Figa (Füge), and Rusu de Jos (Alsóoroszfalu).

The town lies on the Transylvanian Plateau, at the confluence of the river Someșul Mare with its affluent, the Șieu.

[5] Beclean is the site of an important railway junction (the train station is called Beclean pe Someș), where secondary routes to Sighetu Marmației and Suceava diverge from the main Căile Ferate Române railway line 400 from Brașov to Satu Mare.

The town is traversed by two national roads: DN17 [ro] (part of European route E58), which joins Dej in Cluj County to Suceava, and DN17D [ro], which joins Beclean to Cârlibaba in Suceava County.