Sunderland
Sunderland is a city and a port of England in the administrative area North-eastern allowed with the row of Cité in 1992. It was before one of the cities free from this statute most important of the United Kingdom.
The population of the intramural city rises with close to 195 000 people. With 280.807 inhabitants (census 2001), the metropolitan agglomeration of Sunderland, which includes the towns of Washington, Houghton-le-Spring and Hetton-le-Hole, is vastest of the Région of England of the North-East.
Located at the mouth of the river Wear, the city dates from Anglo-Saxon times when a monastery with Wearmouth was.
On the the North Sea, Sunderland was traditionally a major center of naval constructions and coal mining until the last firm building site in 1988 and the last mine in 1994, replaced later by factories of electronics, automotive, chemical and paper engineerings.
The Short Sunderland was a type of bomber used by the Royal Air Force during the Second world war which took its name of the city.
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