South Shields
South Shields is a coastal port town in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England; it lies on the south bank of the mouth of the River Tyne. The town was known in Roman times as Arbeia and as Caer Urfa by the Early Middle Ages.
- Type: Town with 83,700 residents
- Description: town in Tyne and Wear, England, UK
- Also known as: “Shields” and “South Shields, Durham”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Arbeia and Tynemouth Priory and Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tynemouth and Whitley Bay.
South Shields
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: South Tyneside, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.9987° or 54° 59′ 56″ north
Longitude
-1.4322° or 1° 25′ 56″ west
Population
83,700
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB SSH
Open location code
9C6WXHX9+F4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“South Shields” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شيلدز الجنوبية”
- Armenian: “Սաութ Շիլդս”
- Asturian: “South Shields”
- Basque: “South Shields”
- Belarusian: “Саўт-Шылдс”
- Bengali: “সাউথ শিল্ড”
- Breton: “South Shields”
- Bulgarian: “Саут Шийлдс”
- Catalan: “South Shields”
- Cebuano: “South Shields”
- Chinese: “南希尔兹”
- Chinese: “南希尔德斯”
- Chinese: “南希爾德斯”
- Czech: “South Shields”
- Dutch: “South Shields”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ساوث شيلدز”
- Finnish: “South Shields”
- French: “South Shields”
- Galician: “South Shields”
- German: “South Shields”
- Gujarati: “દક્ષિણ શિલ્ડ્સ”
- Hebrew: “סאות‘ שילדס”
- Indonesian: “South Shields”
- Irish: “Shields Theas”
- Italian: “South Shields”
- Japanese: “サウス・シールズ”
- Kannada: “ಸೌತ್ ಶೀಲ್ಡ್ಸ್”
- Korean: “사우스실즈”
- Ladin: “South Shields”
- Latvian: “Sautšīldsa”
- Lithuanian: “Saut Šildsas”
- Northern Frisian: “South Shields”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “South Shields”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “South Shields”
- Norwegian: “South Shields”
- Persian: “ساوت شیلدز”
- Polish: “South Shields”
- Portuguese: “South Shields”
- Romanian: “South Shields”
- Russian: “Саут-Шилдс”
- Serbian: “Саут Шилдс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “South Shields”
- Silesian: “South Shields”
- Slovenian: “South Shields”
- South Azerbaijani: “ساوت شیلدز”
- Spanish: “South Shields”
- Swedish: “South Shields”
- Tamil: “தெற்கு ஷீல்ட்ஸ்”
- Tatar: “Саус-Шилдс”
- Telugu: “సౌత్ షీల్డ్స్”
- Ukrainian: “Саут-Шилдс”
- Urdu: “ساؤتھ شیلڈز”
- Welsh: “South Shields”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: The Lawe and Middle Docks (Disused).
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: South Shields Museum & Art Gallery and The Scotia Public House.
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