River Wear
The River Wear in Northern England rises in the Pennines and flows eastwards, mostly through County Durham, to the North Sea in the City of Sunderland.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in North East England
- Also known as: “Rio wear”, “Wirus”, and “ウィア川”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Stadium of Light and Wave Basin Battery Adjacent To Old South Pier.
Wave Basin Battery Adjacent To Old South Pier
Fort
Roker Pier lighthouse
Lighthouse
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Monkwearmouth and Seaburn.
Seaburn
Suburb
Seaburn is a seaside resort and northeastern suburb of Sunderland, North East England.
Sunderland
River Wear
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.91806° or 54° 55′ 5″ north
Longitude
-1.35972° or 1° 21′ 35″ west
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
Open location code
9C6WWJ9R+64
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“River Wear” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ملابس النهر”
- Asturian: “Ríu Wear”
- Basque: “Wear ibaia”
- Bavarian: “Wear”
- Belarusian: “Уір”
- Belarusian: “Ўір”
- Cebuano: “River Wear”
- Chinese: “威尔河”
- Chinese: “威爾河”
- Chuvash: “Уир”
- Dutch: “Wear”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ويار”
- Esperanto: “Viuro”
- Estonian: “Weari jõgi”
- Finnish: “Wear”
- French: “Wear”
- German: “Wear”
- Hausa: “Kogin Wear”
- Hebrew: “River Wear”
- Hindi: “वीयर नदी”
- Hungarian: “Wear”
- Italian: “Wear (fiume)”
- Italian: “Wear”
- Japanese: “ウェア川”
- Ladin: “Wear”
- Latin: “Viurus”
- Malayalam: “വിയർ നദി”
- Northern Frisian: “Wear”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wear”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wear”
- Norwegian: “Wear”
- Polish: “Wear”
- Portuguese: “Rio Wear”
- Russian: “Уир”
- Serbian: “Вир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wear”
- Slovak: “Wear”
- Slovenian: “Wear”
- Spanish: “Río Wear”
- Swedish: “Wear”
- Turkish: “Wear Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Вір”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Wear”
- Welsh: “Afon Wear”
- Western Frisian: “Wear (rivier)”
- Western Frisian: “Wear”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Roker and Deptford.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Sunderland Harbour and Stadium of Light.
England: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: London and Manchester.
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