Place:South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England

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NameSouth Tyneside
TypeBorough (metropolitan)
Coordinates54.959°N 1.438°W
Located inTyne and Wear, England     (1974 - )
See alsoSouth Shields, Durham, Englandcounty borough from which it was formed in 1974
Jarrow, Durham, Englandmunicipal borough from which it was formed in 1974
Boldon, Durham, Englandurban district from which it was formed in 1974
Hebburn, Durham, Englandurban district from which it was formed in 1974
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South Tyneside is a metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear in northeast England.

It is bordered by three other boroughs: Gateshead to the west, Sunderland in the south and North Tyneside to the north. The border county of Northumberland lies further north. The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the County Borough of South Shields along with the municipal borough of Jarrow and the urban districts of Boldon and Hebburn from County Durham.

South Tyneside forms part of the Tyneside conurbation, the sixth largest in the United Kingdom, with a geographical area of 64.43 km2 (24.88 sq mi) and an estimated population of 153,700 (Mid-year 2010), measured at the 2011 Census as 148,127. It is bordered to the east by the North Sea and to the north by the River Tyne. A Green Belt of 23.64 km2 (9.13 sq mi) is at its southern boundary.

The main administrative centre and largest town is South Shields. Other riverside towns are Jarrow and Hebburn, while the villages of Cleadon, Whitburn and The Boldons border the South Tyneside green belt, with Wearside to the south at Sunderland.


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