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Sunderland is a city in in northeast England, with a population of 171,000 in 2021. It's industrial, but has lost traditional trades such as shipbuilding, and is still re-inventing itself.
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  • Type: City with 275,000 residents
  • Description: city in Tyne and Wear, North East England
  • Also known as: “Sunderland, Tyne and Wear”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stadium of Light and Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens.

Stadium
Photo: Blackcat, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is an all-seater football in Sunderland, England, and the eighth and current home to Sunderland. With space for 49,000 spectators, the is the 10th largest football stadium in England.

Museum
Photo: Sterock85, CC BY 3.0.
is a municipal museum in Sunderland, England. It contains the only known British example of a gliding reptile, the oldest known vertebrate capable of gliding flight.

Hospital
The is a health facility in Sunderland, . It is managed by the South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Tyneside and Fulwell.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

Suburb
Photo: Peter McDermott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an affluent area and former civil parish in the Sunderland district, in the county of , England. The parish was abolished in 1928 as a result of the Sunderland Corporation Act 1927, and the area incorporated into the former County Borough of Sunderland.

Suburb
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a coastal village along the southern boundary of the City of Sunderland, in , England. With a population of approximately 14,000, measured at 10.484 in the 2011 census, is 2.9 miles to the centre of Sunderland, 2.8 miles to the centre of , and 1.2 miles from the main A19.

Sunderland

Latitude
54.9059° or 54° 54′ 21″ north
Longitude
-1.3829° or 1° 22′ 58″ west
Population
275,000
Elevation
118 feet (36 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB SUN
Open location code
9C6WWJ48+8V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20959520
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2636531
Wiki­data ID
Q188304
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Sunderland” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سندرلاند”
  • Aragonese: “Sunderland”
  • Armenian: “Սանդերլենդ”
  • Asturian: “Sunderland”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sanderlend”
  • Balinese: “Sunderland”
  • Basque: “Sunderland”
  • Belarusian: “Сандэрленд”
  • Belarusian: “Сандэрлэнд”
  • Bengali: “সান্ডারল্যান্ড”
  • Bosnian: “Sunderland”
  • Bulgarian: “Съндърланд”
  • Bulgarian: “Съндърленд”
  • Catalan: “Sunderland”
  • Cebuano: “Sunderland (kapital sa kondado)”
  • Cebuano: “Sunderland”
  • Chinese: “巽德蘭”
  • Chinese: “新特蘭”
  • Chinese: “桑德兰”
  • Chinese: “森德兰”
  • Croatian: “Sunderland”
  • Czech: “Sunderland”
  • Danish: “City of Sunderland”
  • Danish: “Sunderland”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sunderland”
  • Dutch: “Sunderland”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سندرلاند”
  • Esperanto: “City of Sunderland”
  • Esperanto: “Sunderland”
  • Estonian: “Sunderland”
  • Finnish: “Sunderland”
  • French: “Sunderland”
  • French: “Wearmouth”
  • Galician: “Sunderland”
  • Georgian: “სანდერლენდი”
  • German: “Sunderland”
  • German: “Wearmouth”
  • Greek: “Σάντερλαντ”
  • Gujarati: “સન્ડરલેન્ડ”
  • Hausa: “Sunderland”
  • Hebrew: “סנדרלנד”
  • Hindi: “सुंदरलैंड”
  • Hungarian: “Sunderland”
  • Icelandic: “Sunderland”
  • Indonesian: “Sunderland, Tyne and Wear”
  • Indonesian: “Sunderland”
  • Irish: “Sunderland”
  • Italian: “Sunderland”
  • Japanese: “サンダーランド”
  • Japanese: “サンダーランド市”
  • Kannada: “ಸುಂಡರ್ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್”
  • Korean: “선더랜드”
  • Korean: “선덜랜드”
  • Kurdish: “Sunderland”
  • Ladin: “Sunderland”
  • Latvian: “Sanderlande”
  • Latvian: “Sanderlenda”
  • Latvian: “Sunderland”
  • Lithuanian: “Sanderlandas”
  • Lithuanian: “Sunderland”
  • Macedonian: “Сандерленд”
  • Malay: “Sunderland”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁꯨꯟꯗꯔꯂꯦꯟ”
  • Marathi: “संडरलँड”
  • Mazanderani: “ساندرلند”
  • Moksha: “Сандэрлэнд”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sunderland”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sunderland, Tyne and Wear”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sunderland”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wearmouth”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sunderland i Durham”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sunderland i Tyne and Wear”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sunderland”
  • Norwegian: “Sunderland”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sunderland”
  • Persian: “ساندرلند، تاین و ور”
  • Persian: “ساندرلند”
  • Polish: “Sunderland”
  • Portuguese: “Sunderland”
  • Portuguese: “Wearmouth-Jarrow”
  • Romanian: “Sunderland”
  • Russian: “Сандерленд”
  • Russian: “Сити-оф-Сандерленд”
  • Scots: “Sunderland”
  • Scots: “Sunlun”
  • Serbian: “Sanderland”
  • Serbian: “Sunderland”
  • Serbian: “Садерленд”
  • Serbian: “Сандерланд”
  • Serbian: “Сандерленд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sunderland”
  • Silesian: “Sunderland”
  • Sinhala: “සන්ඩර්ලන්ඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Sunderland”
  • Slovenian: “Sunderland, Tyne and Wear”
  • Slovenian: “Sunderland”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ساندرلند”
  • Spanish: “Sunderland, Tyne y Wear”
  • Spanish: “Sunderland”
  • Swahili: “Sunderland”
  • Swedish: “Sunderland, Tyne and Wear”
  • Swedish: “Sunderland”
  • Tamil: “சுந்தர்லாண்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Сандерленд”
  • Telugu: “సండర్లాండ్”
  • Thai: “ซันเดอร์แลนด์”
  • Turkish: “Sunderland”
  • Ukrainian: “Сандерленд”
  • Urdu: “سنڈر لینڈ”
  • Urdu: “سنڈرلینڈ، ٹائن اینڈ وئیر”
  • Venetian: “Sunderland”
  • Veps: “Sanderlend”
  • Vietnamese: “Sunderland”
  • Volapük: “Sunderland”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sunderland, Tyne and Wear”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sunderland, Tyne ngan Wear”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sunderland, Tyne ug Wear”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sunderland”
  • Welsh: “Sunderland”
  • Wu Chinese: “桑德兰”
  • Yiddish: “סונדערלאנד”
  • Yue Chinese: “新特蘭”
  • “Sunderland”

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