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City of Sunderland
Europe is one of the five inhabited traditional continents of the Earth. Physically and geologically, Europe is the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, west of Asia. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and to the southeast by the waterways adjoining the Mediterranean to and including the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains. On the east, Europe is divided from Asia by the water divide of the Ural Mountains and by the Caspian Sea. Europe is the world's second-smallest continent in terms of area and third-largest continent after Asia and Africa in population.
City of Sunderland is a metropolitan area in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear in North East England. It contains Sunderland along with Washington, Houghton-le-Spring, and smaller settlements. In 2001, the population of the city was 280,807. The metropolitan area was formed in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 by the merger of several districts. In population and area it is the biggest city between Leeds and Edinburgh. The metropolitan area was granted city status in 1992. Sunderland is home to the University of Sunderland.
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