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Tyne and Wear

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.
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is a city in Tyne and Wear in the north-east of . 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.

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is a city in Tyne and Wear 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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is a town in Tyne and Wear in the northeast of England. It stands on the south bank of the River Tyne looking across to on the north bank.

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on Tyne is a town in Tyne and Wear in the northeast of England. It's industrial, with a population of almost 44,000 in 2011, and lies four miles east of . It got its name as the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall.

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is a town in Tyne and Wear in the northeast of England. It was a small mining village but from 1964 became the core of a planned New Town, with a population of over 67,000 in 2011.

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is a large town in Tyne and Wear in northeast England, nine miles east of . It's the largest of a series of towns on the north bank of the Tyne estuary, running into North Shields to the west and Cullercoats to the north, also described on this page.

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is a borough in Tyne and Wear 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.

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is a seaside resort in Tyne and Wear in the northeast of England, with a population of around 36,000 in 2013. It was part of Northumberland until 1974 when the borough of North Tyneside was created within the metropolis of Tyne and Wear.

Tyne and Wear

Latitude of center
54.9167° or 54° 55′ north
Longitude of center
-1.5667° or 1° 34′ west
Population
1,130,000
Elevation
472 feet (144 metres)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302323871
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
2635274
Wiki­data ID
Q23080
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tyne and Wear” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Afrikaans: “Tyne en Wear”
  • Arabic: “تاين و وير”
  • Arabic: “تاين ووير”
  • Armenian: “Թայն ընդ Ուեր”
  • Asturian: “Tyne y Wear”
  • Balinese: “Tyne miwah Wear”
  • Basque: “Tyne eta Wear”
  • Belarusian: “Графства Тайн і Уір”
  • Belarusian: “Тайн і Уір”
  • Belarusian: “Тайн і Ўір”
  • Belarusian: “Тайн-энд-Уір”
  • Bengali: “টাইন ও ওয়্যার”
  • Breton: “Tyne ha Wear”
  • Bulgarian: “Тайн и Уиър”
  • Burmese: “တိုင်းနံဝဲ”
  • Catalan: “Tyne i Wear”
  • Cebuano: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Chinese: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Chinese: “泰威”
  • Chinese: “泰恩-威尔郡”
  • Chinese: “泰恩-威爾郡”
  • Cornish: “Tyne ha Wear”
  • Czech: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Danish: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Dutch: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Esperanto: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Estonian: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Finnish: “Tyne ja Wear”
  • French: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Galician: “Tyne e Wear”
  • German: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Gujarati: “ટાઇન અને વિયર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Hebrew: “טיין אנד ויר”
  • Hindi: “टाइन एंड वेयर”
  • Hindi: “टाइन ऐंड वेयर”
  • Hungarian: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Icelandic: “Tyne og Wear”
  • Indonesian: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Indonesian: “Tyne dan Wear”
  • Irish: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Italian: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Japanese: “タイン・アンド・ウィア”
  • Kannada: “ಟೈನ್ ಮತ್ತು ವೇರ್”
  • Korean: “타인 위어 주”
  • Korean: “타인 위어주”
  • Ladin: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Latin: “Tina et Viurus”
  • Latvian: “Taina un Vīra”
  • Lithuanian: “Tainas ir Viras”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tyne a Wear”
  • Macedonian: “Тајн и Вер”
  • Manx: “Tyne as Wear”
  • Marathi: “टाईन व वेयर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Norwegian: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tyne and Wear”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tyne e Wear”
  • Ossetian: “Тайн æмæ Уир”
  • Persian: “تاین و ور”
  • Polish: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Portuguese: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Romanian: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Russian: “Тайн и Уир”
  • Russian: “Тайн-энд-Уир”
  • Scots: “Tyne an Wear”
  • Serbian: “Тајн и Вир”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Slovak: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Slovenian: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Spanish: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Spanish: “Tyne y Wear”
  • Swedish: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Tagalog: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Tajik: “Тайн ва Уир”
  • Tamil: “ட்யனே அண்ட் வெயர்”
  • Tatar: “Тайн-әнд-Вир”
  • Telugu: “టైన్ మరియు వేర్”
  • Thai: “ไทน์และเวียร์”
  • Turkish: “Törensel Tyne ve Wear Kontluğu”
  • Turkish: “Tyne ve Wear”
  • Ukrainian: “Тайн і Вір”
  • Ukrainian: “Тайн-енд-Вір”
  • Urdu: “ٹائن اور وئیر”
  • Urdu: “ٹائین اینڈ وئیر”
  • Venetian: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Vietnamese: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Volapük: “Tyne and Wear”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tyne and Wear”
  • Welsh: “Tyne a Wear”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹائن اینڈ ویر”
  • Wu Chinese: “泰恩-威尔郡”
  • Yiddish: “טיין און וויר”
  • Yue Chinese: “泰威”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Tyne and Wear”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.