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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne 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.
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  • Type: City with 809,000 residents
  • Description: city in Tyne and Wear, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Newcastle”, “Newcastle upon Tyne (parish)”, and “Newcastle-on-Tyne”
  • Postal code: NE99

Places of Interest

Highlights include St James’ Park and The Glasshouse.

Stadium
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St James' Park is a football stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is the home of Newcastle United. With a seating capacity of 52,264, it is the 9th largest football stadium in England.

Arts center
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is an international centre for musical education and concerts on the 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 , , England. It hosts a frequently changing variety of exhibitions, events, and educational programmes with no permanent exhibition.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gateshead and Wallsend.

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is a town in 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.

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on Tyne is a town in in the northeast of England. It's industrial, with a population of almost 44,000 in 2011, and lies four miles east of Newcastle upon Tyne. It got its name as the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall.

Suburb
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is an area of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, situated north of the city centre. It constituted a separate urban district of from 1895 until 1974 before officially merging with the city of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Newcastle upon Tyne

Latitude
54.9738° or 54° 58′ 26″ north
Longitude
-1.6132° or 1° 36′ 47″ west
Population
809,000
Elevation
177 feet (54 metres)
IATA airport code
NCL
United Nations Location Code
GB NCL
Open location code
9C6WX9FP+GP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20910685
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2641673
Wiki­data ID
Q1425428
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Newcastle upon Tyne” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Arabic: “نيوكاسل أبون تاين”
  • Aragonese: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Armenian: “Նյուքասլ ափոն Թայն”
  • Asturian: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Asturian: “Newcastle”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nyukasl apon Tayn”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nyukasl-apon-Tayn”
  • Balinese: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Basque: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Basque: “Newcastle-upon-Tyne”
  • Belarusian: “Ньюкасл-апан-Тайн”
  • Belarusian: “Ньюкасл-апон-Тайн”
  • Belarusian: “Ньюкасл-на-Тайне”
  • Belarusian: “Ньюкасл-эпон-Тайн”
  • Belarusian: “Ньюкасл”
  • Bengali: “নিউকাসল আপন টাইন”
  • Bengali: “নিউক্যাসল আপন টাইন”
  • Bengali: “নিউক্যাসল আপন ট্যাইন”
  • Bosnian: “Newcastle na Tyneu”
  • Breton: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Bulgarian: “Нюкасъл ъпон Тайн”
  • Catalan: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Cebuano: “Newcastle upon Tyne (kapital sa kondado)”
  • Cebuano: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیوکاسڵ”
  • Chinese: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Chinese: “沃克”
  • Chinese: “泰恩河畔紐卡斯爾”
  • Chinese: “泰恩河畔紐卡素”
  • Chinese: “泰恩河畔纽卡斯尔”
  • Chinese: “紐卡素”
  • Chinese: “纽卡斯尔”
  • Croatian: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Czech: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Czech: “Newcastle”
  • Danish: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Dutch: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيوكاسل ابون تاين”
  • Esperanto: “Newcastle-upon-Tyne”
  • Esperanto: “Novkastelo”
  • Estonian: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Fijian: “Niukaseli ena Tyne”
  • Finnish: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • French: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • French: “Newcastle-upon-Tyne”
  • Galician: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Georgian: “ნიუკასლ-აპონ-ტაინი”
  • German: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • German: “Newcastle”
  • Greek: “Νιούκασλ απόν Τάιν”
  • Greek: “Νιούκασλ”
  • Greek: “Νιούκαστλ”
  • Gujarati: “ન્યૂકેસલ અપોન ટાઇન”
  • Hausa: “Newcastle”
  • Hebrew: “ניוקאסל על הטיין”
  • Hebrew: “ניוקאסל”
  • Hindi: “न्यूकैसल अपॉन टाइन नोड”
  • Hungarian: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Hungarian: “Newcastle”
  • Icelandic: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Ido: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Indonesian: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Irish: “An Caisleán Nua”
  • Irish: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Italian: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Nyuukasl apan Tain”
  • Japanese: “ニューカッスル・アポン・タイン”
  • Japanese: “ニューカッスル”
  • Javanese: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Kannada: “ನ್ಯೀಕಾಸ್ಲ್”
  • Kannada: “ನ್ಯೂ ಕ್ಯಾಸಲ್ ಅಪಾನ್ ಟೈನ್”
  • Kannada: “ನ್ಯೂಕ್ಯಾಸಲ್ ಅಪಾನ ಟೈನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Nyukasl upon tyne”
  • Kazakh: “Ньюкасл-апон-Тайн”
  • Korean: “뉴캐슬 어폰 타인”
  • Korean: “뉴캐슬어폰타인”
  • Kurdish: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Ladin: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Latin: “Novum Castellum”
  • Latin: “Novum Castrum super Tinam”
  • Latvian: “Ņūkāsla pie Tainas”
  • Limburgan: “Newcastle-upon-Tyne”
  • Lithuanian: “Niukaslas prie Taino”
  • Macedonian: “Њукасл на Тајн”
  • Macedonian: “Њукасл”
  • Malagasy: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Malay: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Manipuri: “ꯅ꯭ꯌꯨꯀꯦꯁ꯭ꯇꯜ ꯑꯄꯣꯟ ꯇꯥꯢꯅꯤ”
  • Marathi: “न्यूकॅसल अपॉन टाईन”
  • Mazanderani: “نیوکاسل”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Mongolian: “Ньюкасл апон Тайн”
  • Mongolian: “Ньюкасл”
  • Narom: “Neuchâté, Angliétèrre”
  • Narom: “Neuchâté”
  • Narom: “Neufchâtel sus le Tyne”
  • Northern Frisian: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Norwegian: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Norwegian: “Newcastle”
  • Ossetian: “Ньюкасл-апон-Тайн”
  • Persian: “نیوکاسل آپون تاین”
  • Persian: “نیوکاسل”
  • Persian: “نیوکسل”
  • Piemontese: “Newcastle-upon-Tyne”
  • Polish: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Portuguese: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Quechua: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Romanian: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Romanian: “Newcastle-upon-Tyne”
  • Russian: “Ньюкасл на Тайне”
  • Russian: “Ньюкасл-апон-Тайн”
  • Russian: “Ньюкасл”
  • Scots: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Caisteal Nuadh”
  • Serbian: “Њукасл на Тајну”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Sicilian: “Newcastle”
  • Silesian: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Sinhala: “නිව්කාසල් අපෝන් ටයින්”
  • Slovak: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Slovenian: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیوکاسل”
  • Spanish: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Spanish: “Newcastle-upon-Tyne”
  • Swahili: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Swedish: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Swedish: “Newcastle-upon-Tyne”
  • Tagalog: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Tamil: “டைன் ஆற்றங்கரை நியூ காசில்”
  • Tamil: “டைன் ஆற்றங்கரை நியூகாசில்”
  • Tatar: “Ньюкасл-апон-Тайн”
  • Tatar: “Ньюкәсл-апон-Тайн”
  • Telugu: “న్యూకాజిల్ అపాన్ టైన్”
  • Thai: “นิวคาสเซิล”
  • Thai: “นิวคาสเซิลอะพอนไทน์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Turkish: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Ukrainian: “Ньюкасл-апон-Тайн”
  • Ukrainian: “Ньюкасл”
  • Urdu: “نیوکاسل اپون ٹائن”
  • Urdu: “نیوکاسل اپون ٹائین”
  • Urdu: “نیوکاسل”
  • Urdu: “نیوکیسل”
  • Uzbek: “Nyukasl (shahar)”
  • Uzbek: “Nyukasl”
  • Vietnamese: “Newcastle trên sông Tyne”
  • Vietnamese: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Volapük: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Welsh: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Western Frisian: “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیوکاسل”
  • Wu Chinese: “新堡城”
  • Yiddish: “ניוקאסטל”
  • Yue Chinese: “紐卡素”
  • “Newcastle”
  • “Newcastle upon Tyne”
  • “Newcastle-on-Tyne”
  • “Newcastle-upon-Tyne”

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