South Tyneside

South Tyneside is a borough in in northeast England, with a population in 2021 of 148,000. It's a series of towns that have been industrial since the Middle Ages, and that historically lay in County Durham.
  • Type: metropolitan borough with 151,000 residents
  • Description: metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England, UK
  • Also known as: “Borough of South Tyneside”, “GB-STY”, “Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside”, “South Tyneside (unparished area)”, “South Tyneside Borough”, “サウス・タインサイド (非教区)”, and “サウス・タインサイド・バラ”

Places of Interest

Highlights: East Boldon Metro station and South Tyneside District Hospital.

Railway station
East Boldon is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving…

Castle
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sunderland and South Shields.

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Town
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Suburb
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South Tyneside

Latitude
54.95° or 54° 57′ north
Longitude
-1.4167° or 1° 25′ west
Population
151,000
Elevation
79 feet (24 metres)
Abbreviation
“STY”
Open location code
9C6WWHXM+X8
Geo­Names ID
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“South Tyneside” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Սաութ Թայնսայդ”
  • Breton: “Su Tyneside”
  • Catalan: “South Tyneside”
  • Cebuano: “South Tyneside”
  • Chinese: “南泰因賽德”
  • Chinese: “南泰因赛德”
  • Dutch: “South Tyneside”
  • Esperanto: “South Tyneside”
  • Finnish: “South Tyneside”
  • French: “South Tyneside”
  • German: “South Tyneside”
  • Hungarian: “South Tyneside”
  • Irish: “Tyneside Theas”
  • Italian: “South Tyneside”
  • Japanese: “サウス・タインサイド”
  • Korean: “사우스타인사이드”
  • Latvian: “Dienvidtainsaida”
  • Macedonian: “Јужен Тајнсајд”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “South Tyneside”
  • Northern Frisian: “South Tyneside”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “South Tyneside”
  • Norwegian: “South Tyneside”
  • Persian: “تاینساید جنوبی”
  • Polish: “South Tyneside”
  • Romanian: “South Tyneside”
  • Russian: “Саут-Тайнсайд”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tyneside a Deas”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “South Tyneside”
  • Spanish: “South Tyneside”
  • Swedish: “South Tyneside”
  • Ukrainian: “Саут-Тайнсайд”
  • Urdu: “جنوبی ٹینیسائڈ”
  • Welsh: “De Tyneside”
  • “South Tyneside”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Cleadon and East Boldon.

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