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It's fair to say there are a few differences between Newport and Swansea.

One's on the sea front, the other is located on the River Usk, one has a Premier League team and the other has a team in the Football League.

But someone at Sky Sports needs to brush up on their geography after an embarrassing gaffe saw them show an aerial shot of Newport instead of Swansea in the build-up to this afternoon's hotly anticipated derby match between Swansea City and Cardiff City.

The channel attempted to set the scene for one of sport's fiercest rivalries with a typical landscape shot of South Wales' premier league cities.

Except, when it came to Swansea, they got it wrong by about 50 miles or so.

Their camera is quite clearly swooping across a birds-eye view of Newport - with its transporter bridge sticking out like a sore thumb and nary a beach in sight.

Oops!

Gallery: Take a look at our pictures of Swansea City fans and players arriving to a 'warm' welcome at Cardiff City Stadium

Of course, Welshies were quick to spot Sky Sports' mistake.

Swansea-based sports writer David Brayley ( @davidbrayley ) tweeted: "Well, @SkySports don't know who does your research, but thought they might know that this is Newport not Swansea."

Music graduate David Langley ( @DaiJLangley92 ) added: "Hell of a gaffe from @SkySports. Their overhead picture of Swansea looks very much like Newport..."

Hat tip goes to Matt H ( @NotTheRealMattH ) who tweeted us to say: "Not sure about this pic of 'Swansea' shown in the buildup to #CARSWA #Newport."