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Far northeast, nearly to Scotland, at the mouth of the Tyne, is the proverbial coal town: Newcastle.1 The metropolitan area of 1.6 million2 also includes the cities of Durham, famed for its castle and its cathedral,3 and Wallsend, the eastern terminus of Hadrians Wall.4
Year | Population2 | Political entity |
2000 CE | 1,300,000 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
the interior of Durham Cathedral, Durham
1. Formally Newcastle upon Tyne.
2. world-gazetteer.com, 2010 calculations, accessed 6/15/2011. The 2000 estimate is a crude interpolation between 1991 and 2011.
3. Together constituting a World Heritage Site.
4. This wall and a wall in Scotland and the Roman limes in Germany constitute a World Heritage Site.