South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire is the southern county of Yorkshire in the north of England. Much of it is industrial, but its western reaches in the Pennine hills have lonely moorlands and scenic valleys.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Sheffield and Doncaster.
Sheffield
The original Steel City, Sheffield is one place most have heard of, but isn't usually on many travellers' bucket lists. If this is you, you're missing out.
Doncaster
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Doncaster is an industrial city in South Yorkshire in the north of England, with a population of about 110,000 in 2019. It's a metropolitan borough which also includes the towns of Bawtry, Mexborough, Conisbrough, Hatfield and Stainforth.
Rotherham
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Rotherham is a large town in South Yorkshire, Its traditional industries were coal-mining, glass-blowing and steel-making: much of this gone, but Rotherham is still a big steel producer, albeit more focused on specialist engineering steel rather than mass production.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Barnsley.
Barnsley
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Barnsley is a large town in South Yorkshire in the north of England, nowadays a metropolis. It grew up as a linen-making town, but then in the 18th and 19th century made its living from coal-mining, glass-making and steel.
South Yorkshire
- Type: Region with 1,380,000 residents
- Description: county of England, UK
- Also known as: “Ceremonial County South Yorkshire”
- Neighbors: Derbyshire, East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, and West Yorkshire
- Categories: metropolitan county and ceremonial county of England
- Location: Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“South Yorkshire” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Suid-Yorkshire”
- Arabic: “جنوب يوركشير”
- Arabic: “ساوث يوركشاير”
- Aragonese: “Yorkshire d’o Sud”
- Armenian: “Հարավային Յորքշիր”
- Armenian: “Սաութ Յորքշիր”
- Asturian: “South Yorkshire”
- Azerbaijani: “Cənubi Yorkşir”
- Balinese: “Yorkshire Kelod”
- Basque: “Hegoaldeko Yorkshire”
- Belarusian: “Графтсва Паўднёвы Ёркшыр”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёвы Ёркшыр”
- Belarusian: “Саўт-Ёркшыр”
- Bengali: “দক্ষিণ ইয়র্কশায়ার”
- Breton: “Su Yorkshire”
- Bulgarian: “Южен Йоркшър”
- Catalan: “South Yorkshire”
- Cebuano: “South Yorkshire”
- Chinese: “South Yorkshire”
- Chinese: “南約克郡”
- Chinese: “南約郡”
- Chinese: “南约克郡”
- Chinese: “南约郡”
- Czech: “South Yorkshire”
- Danish: “South Yorkshire”
- Dutch: “South Yorkshire”
- Dutch: “Zuid-Yorkshire”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ساوث يوركشير”
- Esperanto: “South Yorkshire”
- Esperanto: “Suda Jorkio”
- Esperanto: “Suda Jorkŝiro”
- Estonian: “Lõuna-Yorkshire”
- Finnish: “South Yorkshire”
- French: “Yorkshire du Sud”
- German: “South Yorkshire”
- German: “Süd-Yorkshire”
- Gujarati: “દક્ષિણ યોર્કશાયર”
- Hebrew: “דרום יורקשייר”
- Hindi: “साउथ यॉर्कशायर”
- Hungarian: “South Yorkshire”
- Icelandic: “Suður-Yorkshire”
- Ido: “Sud-Yorkshire”
- Indonesian: “Yorkshire Selatan”
- Irish: “Yorkshire Theas”
- Italian: “South Yorkshire”
- Japanese: “サウス・ヨークシャー”
- Kannada: “ಸೌತ್ ಯಾರ್ಕ್ಷೈರ್”
- Korean: “사우스요크셔주”
- Ladin: “South Yorkshire”
- Latin: “Isuria Meridionalis”
- Latvian: “Dienvidjorkšīra”
- Latvian: “Sautjorkšīra”
- Lithuanian: “Pietų Jorkšyras”
- Luxembourgish: “Süd Yorkshire”
- Macedonian: “Јужен Јоркшир”
- Manx: “Yorkshire Yiass”
- Marathi: “साउथ यॉर्कशायर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “South Yorkshire”
- Northern Frisian: “South Yorkshire”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “South Yorkshire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “South Yorkshire”
- Norwegian: “South Yorkshire”
- Occitan (post 1500): “South Yorkshire”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Yorkshire del Sud”
- Ossetian: “Хуссар Йоркшир”
- Persian: “یورکشایر جنوبی”
- Persian: “یورکشر جنوبی”
- Polish: “South Yorkshire”
- Portuguese: “South Yorkshire”
- Romanian: “South Yorkshire”
- Russian: “Саут-Йоркшир”
- Russian: “Южный Йоркшир”
- Scots: “Sooth Yorkshire”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Siorrachd Eabhrac a Deas”
- Serbian: “Јужни Јоркшир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “South Yorkshire”
- Sicilian: “South Yorkshire”
- Slovak: “South Yorkshire”
- Slovenian: “South Yorkshire”
- Spanish: “Yorkshire del Sur”
- Swedish: “South Yorkshire”
- Tajik: “Йоркшири Ҷанубӣ”
- Tamil: “தெற்கு யோர்க்க்ஷிர்”
- Telugu: “దక్షణ యార్క్ షైర్”
- Thai: “เซาท์ยอร์กเชอร์”
- Turkish: “Güney Yorkshire Törensel Kontluğu”
- Turkish: “Güney Yorkshire”
- Ukrainian: “Південний Йоркшир”
- Urdu: “جنوبی یارکشائر”
- Urdu: “ساؤتھ یارکشائر”
- Venetian: “contea de South York”
- Vietnamese: “South Yorkshire”
- Volapük: “South Yorkshire”
- Waray (Philippines): “South Yorkshire”
- Welsh: “De Swydd Efrog”
- Western Frisian: “Súd-Yorkshire”
- Western Panjabi: “تھلواں یارکشائر”
- Wu Chinese: “南约克郡”
- Yiddish: “דרום יארקשיר”
- Yue Chinese: “南約郡”
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