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Sunderland

city in Tyne and Wear, North East England
City city Q188304
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Summary

Sunderland is a city[1]. Sunderland ranks in the top 3% of city entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,456 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Sunderland[3]
  • Country: United Kingdom[4]
  • Located in or next to body of water: River Wear[5], North Sea[6]
  • Instance of: big city[7], unparished area[8]
  • Twinned administrative body: Essen[9], Washington, D.C.[10]
  • Postal code: SR1[11], SR2[12], SR3[13], SR4[14], SR5[15], SR6[16], SR9[17]
  • Commons category: Sunderland[18]
  • Local dialing code: 0191[19]
  • OS grid reference: NZ395575[20]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Sunderland[21]
  • Commons gallery: Sunderland[22]
  • Population: 174,286[23], 277,417[24], 195,000[25], 294,000[26], 216,900[27], 277,000[28]
  • Described by source: The Nuttall Encyclopædia[29], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[30], The New Student's Reference Work[31], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[32], Q21819378[33], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)[34], Great dictionary of geographical names[35], Meyer’s Universum, Dreizehnter Band[36]
  • Capital of: Sunderland[37], County Borough of Sunderland[38]
  • Official name: Sunderland[39]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Sunderland[40]
  • Category for people who died here: Q21031155[41]
  • Native label: Sunderland[42]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Sunderland[43]
  • Different from: Sunderland[44]
  • Elevation above sea level: 60 m[45]
  • Area: 111.84 km²[46]
  • Historic county: County Durham[47]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Sunderland include Sunderland station[48], an underground railway station[49], in United Kingdom[50].

Why It Matters

Sunderland has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[51] Sunderland is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[52]

Entities named for Sunderland include Sunderland station[48], an underground railway station[49], in United Kingdom[50].

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . United Kingdom Census 2011. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . ons.gov.uk. ons.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Great dictionary of geographical names. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978). wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . Great Russian Encyclopedia. Retrieved . old.bigenc.ru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [48] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [49] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [50] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [51] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [52] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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