Newcastle upon Tyne
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Newcastle upon Tyne (for ordinar cried juist Newcastle) is a ceety in the north-east o Ingland. It is locatit alang the north baunk o the River Tyne an the umwhile coonty toun o Northumberland. Mair nor 190,000 fowk bide in the ceety, but e'en mair bides in the surroondin aurie.
Newcastle upon Tyne | |
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Ceety & metropolitan borough | |
Frae tap-left: Newcastle Quayside an River Tyne, St James' Park stadium, Theatre Royal, Georgian airchitectur aroond Grey's Monument, the Castle | |
Eik-name(s): Newcastle, The Toon, Paris of the North | |
Motto(s): "Fortiter Defendit Triumphans" (Latin: "Triumphing bi brave defence") | |
Location o Newcastle upon Tyne in Ingland | |
Coordinates: 54°58′N 1°36′W | |
Sovereign state | Unitit Kinrick |
Constituent kintra | England |
Region | North East |
Coonty | Tyne an Wear |
Foondit | 2nt century |
Toun charter | Henry II |
Coonty Corporate | 1400 |
Ceety status | 1882 |
Status | Ceety & metropolitan borough |
Govrenment | |
• Govrenin body | Newcastle Ceety Cooncil |
• Lord Mayor | Cooncillor Jackie Slesenger[1] |
• Admeenistrative HQ | Newcastle Civic Centre |
Area | |
• City | 225 km2 (139 sq mi) |
Population | |
• City | 300,125 (Ranked 39t) |
• Urban | 879,996 (Tyneside) (Ranked 7t) |
• Metro | 1,650,000 (Tyne an Wear Ceety Region) (Ranked 6t) |
Time zone | GMT (UTC) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (BST) |
Postcode | NE |
Area code(s) | 0191 |
ISO 3166-2 | GB-NET |
ONS code | 00CJ (ONS) E08000021 (GSS) |
OS grid reference | NZ249645 |
NUTS 3 | UKC22 |
Demonym | Geordie, Novocastrian |
Website | www.newcastle.gov.uk |
The byleid o Newcastle is kent as Geordie, an haes a muckle amoont o vocabulary an distinctive wird pronunciations no uised in ither pairts o Ingland, bit that are sib tae Scots. The Geordie byleid, lik Scots an Staundart Inglis, haes its oreegins in the leid spoken bi the Anglo-Saxon that settlet in Breetian efter the Romans left in the 4t century. But whiles the byleids o ither Inglis regions hae been muckle chyngit bi the influences o ither furrin leids — Norman an Norman–French in parteecular — the Geordie byleid, lik Scots, hauds ontae mony chairicteristics o the auld leid. Some wirds uised in the Geordie byleid is uised in Scots an aw, sic lik bonny, stot, canny, strang an coo. Mony wirds, houaniver, appear tae be uised alanery in Newcastle an the surroondin aurie, sic lik bait ("fuid") an hacky ("clarty").[3]
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