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Gateshead

Gateshead is a town in in the northeast of England. It stands on the south bank of the River Tyne looking across to on the north bank.
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  • Type: Town with 201,000 residents
  • Description: town in Tyne and Wear, England
  • Also known as: “Gateshead-on-Tyne”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include St James’ Park and The Glasshouse.

Stadium
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St James' Park is a football stadium in , England. It is the home of Newcastle United. With a seating capacity of 52,264, it is the 10th largest football stadium in England.

Arts center
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is an international centre for musical education and concerts on the Gateshead bank of Quayside in northern England. Opened in 2004 as Sage Gateshead and occupied by North Music Trust, the venue's original name honours a patron: the accountancy software company The Sage Group.

Arts center
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is a centre for contemporary art located on the south bank of the in Gateshead, , England. It hosts a frequently changing variety of exhibitions, events, and educational programmes with no permanent exhibition.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Newcastle upon Tyne and Felling.

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is a city in in the north-east of . It's an industrial but lively, cultural place on the north bank of the River Tyne, with a population of just over 300,000 in 2019, and another half a million residing in its outlying areas.

Suburb
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is a town in the in , England. Historically part of , the town became part of the metropolitan borough of Gateshead in 1974.

Suburb
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is a suburb of Gateshead situated in the in , England. Built predominantly on sandstone, grindstone and clay, it is bordered by /Deckham to the east, Saltwell/Bensham to the west, Harlow Green to the south and Shipcote to the north.

Gateshead

Latitude
54.9626° or 54° 57′ 45″ north
Longitude
-1.6019° or 1° 36′ 7″ west
Population
201,000
Elevation
174 feet (53 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB GAT
Open location code
9C6WX97X+26
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27159445
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2648773
Wiki­data ID
Q216372
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Gateshead” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Gateshead”
  • Arabic: “Gateshead”
  • Arabic: “جيتشيد”
  • Arabic: “غيتسهيد”
  • Armenian: “Գեյթսհեդ”
  • Asturian: “Gateshead”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qeytsxed”
  • Basque: “Gateshead”
  • Bavarian: “Gateshead”
  • Belarusian: “Гейтсгэд”
  • Belarusian: “Гейтсхед”
  • Bengali: “গেটসহেড”
  • Catalan: “Gateshead”
  • Cebuano: “Gateshead (kapital sa kondado)”
  • Cebuano: “Gateshead”
  • Chinese: “Gateshead”
  • Chinese: “加茲海得”
  • Chinese: “盖茨黑德”
  • Chinese: “蓋茨黑德”
  • Czech: “Gateshead”
  • Danish: “Gateshead”
  • Dutch: “Gateshead”
  • Dutch: “Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيتسهيد”
  • Esperanto: “Gateshead”
  • Estonian: “Gateshead”
  • Finnish: “Gateshead”
  • French: “Gateshead”
  • Georgian: “გეიტსჰედი”
  • German: “Gateshead”
  • Greek: “Γκέιτσχεντ”
  • Gujarati: “ગેટ્સહેડ”
  • Hebrew: “גייטסהד”
  • Icelandic: “Gateshead”
  • Irish: “Gateshead”
  • Italian: “Gateshead”
  • Japanese: “ゲーツヘッド”
  • Kannada: “ಗೇಟ್ಸ್ಹೆಡ್”
  • Korean: “게이츠헤드”
  • Ladin: “Gateshead”
  • Latin: “Gabrocentum”
  • Latvian: “Geitsheda”
  • Lithuanian: “Geitshedas”
  • Lithuanian: “Geitšydas”
  • Malagasy: “Gateshead”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gateshead”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gateshead”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gateshead”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gateshead”
  • Norwegian: “Gateshead”
  • Persian: “گیتس هد”
  • Persian: “گیتس‌هد”
  • Polish: “Gateshead”
  • Portuguese: “Gateshead”
  • Romanian: “Gateshead”
  • Russian: “Гейтсхед”
  • Russian: “Гейтсхэд”
  • Serbian: “Gateshead”
  • Serbian: “Gejtshed”
  • Serbian: “Гејтсхед”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gateshead”
  • Silesian: “Gateshead”
  • Slovak: “Gateshead”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قیتس‌هد”
  • Spanish: “Gateshead”
  • Swedish: “Gateshead”
  • Tamil: “கேட்ஸ்ஹெட்”
  • Tatar: “Гейтсһед”
  • Telugu: “గేట్స్హెడ్”
  • Turkish: “Gateshead”
  • Ukrainian: “Гейтсхед”
  • Urdu: “گیٹ شیڈ”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gateshead”
  • Welsh: “Gateshead”
  • Yiddish: “גייטסהעד”
  • “Gateshead”

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