North East England
North East England has outstanding natural beauty. Hadrian's Wall snakes over dale and hill along the crest of a sharp ridge. Along the coast, windswept castles raise defiant stone fists against invaders and the elements.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Newcastle upon Tyne and Durham.
Newcastle upon Tyne
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Newcastle upon Tyne is a city in Tyne and Wear in the north-east of England. 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.
Durham
Durham is a city in County Durham in North East England. The name is believed to derive from "Dun-holme", or hill-island, due to its location on a meander on the River Wear.
Hadrian’s Wall
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Hadrian's Wall was built by the Roman Empire to protect their territory in England from the Pictish tribes of Scotland. It was built relatively quickly from 122 AD, with associated castles and forts, and stretches for 73 miles from the Tyne estuary on the east coast to Solway Firth on the west coast.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Northumberland and County Durham.
Northumberland
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Northumberland is a rural county in North East England, on the England-Scotland border. It contains one of the most picturesque and untouched stretches of coastline in the United Kingdom and contains rolling hills and low mountains in the sparsely populated interior.
County Durham
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County Durham is a county in North East England with a population of 510,800. It's north of Yorkshire and south of Newcastle, astride the main north-south transport route.
Tyne and Wear
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Tyne and Wear is a county and metropolis in the North East of England, created in 1974 from towns that had been in Northumberland or County Durham, plus Newcastle upon Tyne.
North East England
- Type: Region with 2,640,000 residents
- Description: region of England
- Also known as: “English North East”, “English Northeast”, “North East”, “North East of England”, “North-East England”, and “Northeast of England”
- Neighbors: North West England
- Categories: region of England and ITL 1 statistical regions of England
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“North East England” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شمال شرق إنجلترا”
- Arabic: “شمال شرق انجلترا”
- Aragonese: “Nord-este d’Anglaterra”
- Aragonese: “Noreste d’Anglaterra”
- Armenian: “Հյուսիսարևելյան Անգլիա”
- Asturian: “Nordeste d’Inglaterra”
- Basque: “Ipar-ekialdeko Ingalaterra”
- Belarusian: “Паўночна-ўсходняя Ангельшчына”
- Belarusian: “Паўночна-Усходняя Англія”
- Bengali: “উত্তর-পূর্ব ইংল্যান্ড”
- Breton: “Biz Bro-Saoz”
- Bulgarian: “Североизточна Англия”
- Catalan: “North East England”
- Chinese: “Tang-pak Eng-lân”
- Chinese: “东北英格兰”
- Chinese: “東北英格蘭”
- Croatian: “Sjeveroistočna Engleska”
- Czech: “Severovýchodní Anglie”
- Danish: “North East England”
- Dutch: “North East England”
- Esperanto: “Nordorienta Anglio”
- Finnish: “Koillis-Englanti”
- French: “Angleterre du Nord-Est”
- French: “Nord-Est de l’Angleterre”
- Galician: “Nordeste de Inglaterra”
- German: “Nordostengland”
- German: “North East England”
- Greek: “Βορειοανατολική Αγγλία”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tûng-pet England”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tûng-pet Yîn-kak-làn”
- Hebrew: “צפון-מזרח אנגליה”
- Hindi: “नॉर्थ ईस्ट इंग्लैंड”
- Hungarian: “Északkelet-Anglia”
- Icelandic: “Norðaustur-England”
- Indonesian: “Inggris Timur Laut”
- Irish: “Oirthuaisceart Shasana”
- Italian: “Nord Est dell’Inghilterra”
- Italian: “Nord Est”
- Japanese: “イングランド北東部”
- Japanese: “ノース・イースト・イングランド”
- Korean: “노스이스트잉글랜드”
- Latvian: “Ziemeļaustrumanglija”
- Lithuanian: “Šiaurės Rytų Anglija”
- Marathi: “ईशान्य इंग्लंड”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tang-pak Eng-lân”
- Mirandese: “Nordeste de la Anglaterra”
- Northern Frisian: “Nuurd Uast Ingelun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nordøst-England”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nordaust-England”
- Norwegian: “Nordøst-England”
- Persian: “شمال شرقی انگلستان”
- Polish: “North East England”
- Polish: “Północno-wschodnia Anglia”
- Portuguese: “Nordeste da Inglaterra”
- Portuguese: “Nordeste Inglês”
- Quechua: “Chinchay anti Inlatirra suyu”
- Romanian: “North East England”
- Russian: “Северо-Восточная Англия”
- Serbian: “Североисточна Енглеска”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sjeveroistočna Engleska”
- Slovak: “North East England”
- Slovenian: “Severnovzhodna Anglija”
- Spanish: “Nordeste de Inglaterra”
- Spanish: “Región del Nordeste de Inglaterra”
- Swahili: “Uingereza Kaskazini-Mashariki”
- Swedish: “Nordöstra England”
- Tajik: “Шимолу Шарқи Ингилистон”
- Tatar: “Төньяк-Көнчыгыш Англия”
- Thai: “นอร์ทอีสต์อิงแลนด์”
- Turkish: “Kuzey Doğu İngiltere”
- Turkish: “Kuzeydoğu İngiltere”
- Ukrainian: “Північно-Східна Англія”
- Urdu: “شمال مشرقی انگلستان”
- Vietnamese: “Đông Bắc Anh”
- Vietnamese: “North East England”
- Vlaams: “North East England”
- Welsh: “Gogledd-ddwyrain Lloegr”
- Western Frisian: “Noardeast-Ingelân”
- Wu Chinese: “东北英格兰”
- Yue Chinese: “東北英格蘭”
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