Gateshead
Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear in the northeast of England. It stands on the south bank of the River Tyne looking across to Newcastle upon Tyne on the north bank.
- Type: Town with 196,000 residents
- Description: town in Tyne and Wear, England
- Also known as: “Gateshead-on-Tyne”, “Geitšydas”, “Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead”, “Гейтсхэд”, “گیتس هد”, and “加茲海得”
- Neighbors: South Tyneside
Places of Interest
Highlights: St James’ Park and The Glasshouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newcastle upon Tyne and Felling.
Felling
Suburb
Gateshead
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: Gateshead, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.9626° or 54° 57′ 45″ north
Longitude
-1.6019° or 1° 36′ 7″ west
Population
196,000
Elevation
174 feet (53 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB GAT
Open location code
9C6WX97X+26
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Gateshead” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “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: “盖茨黑德”
- Chinese: “蓋茨黑德”
- Czech: “Gateshead”
- Danish: “Gateshead”
- Dutch: “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”
- Malagasy: “Gateshead”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gateshead”
- Northern Frisian: “Gateshead”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gateshead”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gateshead”
- Norwegian: “Gateshead”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gatesheafod”
- Persian: “گیتسهد”
- Polish: “Gateshead”
- Portuguese: “Gateshead”
- Romanian: “Gateshead”
- Russian: “Гейтсхед”
- 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: “گیٹس ہیڈ”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gateshead”
- Welsh: “Gateshead”
- Yiddish: “גייטסהעד”
- “Gateshead”
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