What is South Tyneside?
'''South Tyneside''' is a [[metropolitan borough]] in [[Tyne and Wear]], North East England. It is surrounded by the four other boroughs in Tyne and Wear – [[Gateshead]] to the west, [[Sunderland]] in the south, [[North Tyneside]] to the north, and [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] to the Northwest. There were 147,776 people living in the borough in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=South Tyneside (Metropolitan Borough, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location|url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/admin/tyne_and_wear/E08000023__south_tyneside/|access-date=2023-04-02|website=www.citypopulation.de}}</ref> The largest town is [[South Shields]]. Other large riverside towns are [[Jarrow]] and [[Hebburn]]. The area was a centre for [[shipbuilding]] and repairing, [[coal mining]] and exports, and the [[Chemical substance|chemical industrie]]<nowiki/>s. They all declined in the half of the 20th century and there was a lot of unemployment. == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Metropolitan boroughs of Tyne and Wear]]