Sandwell
Sandwell is a metropolitan borough that spans a densely populated part of the West Midlands, including Bearwood, Blackheath, Cradley Heath, Oldbury, Rowley Regis, Smethwick, Tipton, Tividale, Wednesbury, West Bromwich.
- Type: metropolitan borough with 323,000 residents
- Description: metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England
- Also known as: “Sandwell (unparished area)”, “Sandwell Metropolitan Borough”, “Сандуэл”, “山德威尔”, “山德維爾”, “山德维尔”, “桑德威尔”, and “砂井”
Places of Interest
Highlights: The Hawthorns and Church of England.
Church of England
Church
Smethwick Galton Bridge railway station
Railway station
Photo: Loganberry, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Bromwich and Dudley.
Sandwell
- Category: unparished area
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.5° or 52° 30′ north
Longitude
-2° or 2° west
Population
323,000
Elevation
522 feet (159 metres)
Abbreviation
“SAW”
Open location code
9C4WG222+22
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Sandwell” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ساندويل”
- Armenian: “Սենդուել”
- Basque: “Sandwell”
- Belarusian: “бора Сандуэл”
- Breton: “Sandwell”
- Cebuano: “Sandwell”
- Chinese: “桑德韋爾”
- Chinese: “桑德韦尔”
- Dutch: “Sandwell”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ساندويل”
- Esperanto: “Sandwell”
- Finnish: “Sandwell”
- French: “Sandwell”
- German: “Sandwell”
- Irish: “Sandwell”
- Italian: “Sandwell”
- Japanese: “サンドウェル”
- Korean: “샌드웰”
- Latvian: “Sendvela”
- Lithuanian: “Sandvelas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sandwell”
- Northern Frisian: “Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandwell”
- Norwegian: “Sandwell”
- Persian: “ساندول”
- Persian: “کلانشهر مستقل ساندول”
- Polish: “Sandwell”
- Romanian: “Sandwell”
- Russian: “Сандуэлл”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sandwell”
- Slovenian: “Sandwell”
- Swedish: “Sandwell”
- Ukrainian: “Сандвелл”
- Ukrainian: “Сендвелл”
- Urdu: “سینڈویل”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Fetropolitan Sandwell”
- Yue Chinese: “山威”
- “Sandwell”
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