Newport is a city as well as unitary authority location in south east Wales, on the River Usk close to its convergence with the Severn Estuary, 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Cardiff. At the 2011 census, it was the 3rd biggest city in Wales, with a population of 145,700. The city creates part of the Cardiff-Newport metropolitan area, with a population of 1,097. Newport has been a port considering that medieval times, when the first Newport Castle was built by the Normans. The community grew out of the earlier Roman community of Caerleon, promptly upstream, and also got its first charter in 1314. It grew considerably in the 19th century, when its port ended up being the focus of coal exports from the eastern South Wales Valleys. Till the surge of Cardiff from the 1850s, Newport was Wales' largest coal-exporting port. Newport was the site of the last massive armed insurrection in Britain, the Newport Rising of 1839 led by the Chartists. This was led by the Chartist John Frost which caused the re-branding of the Duffryn High School right into John Frost School. In the 20th century, the anchors decreased in significance, but Newport continued to be an essential manufacturing as well as design centre. It was provided city standing in 2002. Newport organized the Ryder Cup in 2010 as well as was the location for the 2014 NATO summit.
