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___MASK55___ is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 local government council areas . Located in Lothian on the Firth of Forth ' s southern shore , it is Scotland ' s second most populous city and the seventh most populous in the ___MASK7___ . The 2014 official population estimates are 464 , 990 for the city of ___MASK55___ , 492 , 680 for the local authority area , and 1 , 339 , 380 for the city region as of 2014 ( ___MASK55___ lies at the heart of the proposed ___MASK55___ and South East Scotland city region ). Recognised as the capital of Scotland since at least the 15th century , ___MASK55___ is home to the Scottish Parliament and the seat of the monarchy in Scotland . The city is also the annual venue of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and home to national institutions such as the National Museum of Scotland , the National Library of Scotland and the Scottish National Gallery . It is the largest financial centre in the UK after London . EUROCITIES is the network of major European cities , founded in 1986 by the mayors of ___MASK53___ , Birmingham , Frankfurt , ___MASK80___ , Milan , and Rotterdam . The 1989 ___MASK53___ conference agreed that a key task was to put the issue of cities and their economic , political and social development onto the European agenda . Indeed , the founders suggested that major European cities could benefit from forming such an association . They intended to form a political platform to act as a channel for communicating with the European institutions and to become recognised as a significant partner in the European community and each member state . The Core Cities Group ( also Core Cities UK ) is a self - selected and self - financed collaborative advocacy group of large regional cities in the ___MASK7___ and outside Greater London . The group was formed in 1995 as a partnership of eight city councils : Birmingham , Bristol , ___MASK37___ , Liverpool , ___MASK48___ , Newcastle , Nottingham , and Sheffield . The Core Cities Group has wide ranging interests , encompassing transport and connectivity , innovation and business support , skills and employment , sustainable communities , culture and creative industries , climate change , finance and industry , and governance . During 2012 the first wave of ' city deals ' recognised the eight cities as " the largest and most economically important English cities outside of ( sic ) London ". Northumbria University , officially the University of Northumbria at ___MASK2___ , is a university located in ___MASK2___ upon Tyne in the North East of England . A former polytechnic , it was established as one of the new universities in 1992 . It is a member of the University ___MASK15___ and the second university of ___MASK2___ . The North Sea is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between ___MASK40___ , Scandinavia , Germany , the ___MASK85___ , ___MASK97___ , and France . An epeiric ( or " shelf ") sea on the European continental shelf , it connects to the ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north . It is more than long and wide , with an area of around . ___MASK2___ University ( Officially , the University of ___MASK2___ upon Tyne ) is a public research university located in ___MASK2___ upon Tyne in the North - East of England . The university can trace its origins to a School of Medicine and Surgery ( later the College of Medicine ), established in 1834 , and to the College of Physical Science ( later renamed Armstrong College ), founded in 1871 . These two colleges came to form one division of the federal University of ___MASK50___ , with the ___MASK50___ Colleges forming the other . The ___MASK2___ colleges merged to form King ' s College in 1937 . In 1963 , following an Act of Parliament , King ' s College became the University of ___MASK2___ upon Tyne . Northumberland is a county in North East ___MASK34___ . The northernmost county of ___MASK34___ , it borders Cumbria to the west , County ___MASK50___ and Tyne and Wear to the south and Scotland to the north . To the east is the North Sea coastline with a long distance path . The county town is Alnwick although the county council is in Morpeth ( for the moment , as there are plans to move it to nearby Ashington ). The northernmost point of Northumberland and ___MASK34___ is at Marshall Meadows Bay . Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century . With headquarters in Elswick , ___MASK2___ upon Tyne , Armstrong Whitworth engaged in the construction of armaments , ships , locomotives , automobiles , and aircraft . ___MASK2___ upon Tyne , commonly known as ___MASK2___ , is a city in Tyne and Wear , North East England , 103 miles ( 166 km ) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles ( 446 km ) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne , from the North Sea . ___MASK2___ is the most populous city in the North East and forms the core of Tyneside conurbation , the eighth most populous urban area in the ___MASK7___ . ___MASK2___ is a member of the English Core Cities Group and is a member of the Eurocities network of European cities . ___MASK2___ was part of the county of Northumberland until 1400 , when it became a county of itself , a status it retained until becoming part of Tyne and Wear in 1974 . The regional nickname and dialect for people from ___MASK2___ and the surrounding area is Geordie . ___MASK2___ also houses ___MASK2___ University , a member of the Russell Group , as well as Northumbria University . ___MASK18___ is a conurbation in North East ___MASK34___ which includes a number of settlements on the banks of the River Tyne . As defined by the Office for National Statistics , the conurbation comprises ___MASK2___ upon Tyne  a city forming the urban core  as well as a number of other towns including Gateshead , Tynemouth , Wallsend , South Shields , and Jarrow . The population of the conurbation was 774 , 891 according to the 2011 census . North East ___MASK34___ is one of the nine regions of ___MASK34___ that are classified at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes . It covers Northumberland , County ___MASK50___ , Tyne and Wear , and the Tees Valley . The region is home to three large conurbations : ___MASK81___ , Wearside , and Tyneside , the latter of which is the largest of the three and the eighth most populous conurbation in the United Kingdom . There are only three cities in the region ; Newcastle upon Tyne is the largest city in the region with a population of just under 280 , 000 , followed by Sunderland , both of which are located in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear . The city of ___MASK50___ is the county town of County ___MASK50___ . Other large settlements in the region include Darlington ; Gateshead ; Hartlepool ; Middlesbrough ; South Shields ; Stockton - on - Tees ; Alnwick and Washington . Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county in the North East region of ___MASK34___ around the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear . It came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972 . It consists of the five metropolitan boroughs of South Tyneside , North Tyneside , ___MASK26___ upon Tyne , Gateshead and City of Sunderland . It is bounded on the east by the North Sea , and has borders with Northumberland to the north and County ___MASK50___ to the south . The Russell Group is a self - selected association of twenty - four public research universities in the ___MASK7___ . The group is headquartered in London and was established in 1994 to represent its members ' interests , principally to government and parliament ; nineteen smaller British research universities formed the 1994 Group in response , which has since dissolved . In 2010 , Russell Group members received approximately two - thirds of all university research grant and contract income in the ___MASK7___ . The group is widely perceived as representing the best universities in the country . Geordie is both a regional nickname for a person from the larger ___MASK18___ region of North East ___MASK34___ and the name of the Northern English dialect spoken by its inhabitants . The term is associated with ___MASK18___ , south Northumberland and northern parts of County ___MASK50___ . The River Tyne is a river in North East ___MASK34___ and its length ( excluding tributaries ) is . It is formed by the confluence of ___MASK27___ : the North Tyne and the South Tyne . These ___MASK27___ converge at Warden ___MASK64___ near ___MASK10___ in Northumberland at a place dubbed ' The Meeting of the Waters '.