Northumbria is known throughout history as being a medieval kingdom and has now become one of the most popular tourist destinations within the UK. The area covers most of Southern Scotland and North East England and has now become an earldom within England itself.

Scotland and England debated for years over ownership of the area but it become recognized as a part of England thanks to a treaty in 1237. However, the entire area of Northumbria is now divided into a number of administrative boundaries and municipal borders. With Northumbria is the name of the actual Kingdom, it has also become the name for a number of other institutions in the area such as the Northumbria Police and the Northumbria University. Aside from those institutions and a few others, the word Northumbria is rarely used in any other conversations other then when people are planning a vacation or trip to the area.

The area has become known as a spot that is surrounded around the arts and religious teachings. There are many local attractions that surround around historical happenings involving religion. For example, the Irish monks were the original messengers for religion in the area which made Northumbria a spot that was the breeding ground for Insular art and also the Anglo-Saxon religion itself.

On top of English, there are a number of other dialects that are spoken in Northumbria that have descended down from different Germanic languages and other dialects created by Latin speaking people and Vikings. The main dialects spoken in the area now include Geordie, Pitmatic, Mackem, Tyke, and Smoggie. When visitors come to the area they can find it hard to decipher the differences as they are very subtle. There are also a number of similarities between the Northumbrian dialects and Scottish Gaelic. Thanks to the deep roots of the Nortumbrian dialects, there are a number of Scandinavian tourists that can understand the language spoken in the area very well. Danish and Norwegian languages are quite similar to what locals speak here and that is why many tourists from those countries come to the area on vacation.