Newcastle’s is the same. Newcastle council only takes in the city centre, a little the the north, most of the west and that’s it. I live in North Shields, which is a Newcastle suburb, but it’s in North Tyneside. Not far from me is Northumberland, which also takes up parts of the west of Newcastle, including the airport, and the affluent areas where most of the players live. South of the Tyne you have South Tyneside and Gateshead. You also have Sunderland council which arguably takes up an area bigger than it should.
Yesterday I went to my mates to watch the match, I came from North Tyneside, went through the tunnel to cross the river into South Tyneside, then went to his in Gateshead, passing a turn off that had the ‘Welcome to Sunderland sign’ on it, indeed if I took the next exit instead of the exit I did take, I would have passed through Sunderland council areas as well, even though the location has Gateshead on it and an NE postcode. All this in about 10 miles of travel.
Fun fact, because of the fragmentation of Tyneside’s councils, and the fact that Sunderland’s area is inflated by including Washington, Springwell (the place I mentioned before), and other areas that are clearly a part of Durham instead, until recently Sunderland ranked higher than Newcastle in population statistics.
If we took Newcastle’s total conurbation, we’d be looking at a population over 1m people, we’d probably be very similar in size to Glasgow, and would be bigger than Liverpool.