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East Anglia is an area in the East of England, [1] often defined as including the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. [2] The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the East Angles , a people whose name originated in Anglia (Angeln) , in what is now Northern Germany .
English: Suffolk and Norfolk, the original constituents of East Anglia, are in red. Cambridgeshire – more recently added – in pink. This image is, inevitably, an approximation and a compromise – it is very hard to properly quantify and emborder East Anglia since it is a completely unofficial region/area.
The Kingdom of the East Angles (Old English: Ēastengla Rīċe; Latin: Regnum Orientalium Anglorum), informally known as the Kingdom of East Anglia, was a small independent kingdom of the Angles during the Anglo-Saxon period comprising what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of the Fens, [1] the area still known as East Anglia.
The kingdom of East Anglia blank.svg Module:Location map/data/Kingdom of the East Angles is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Kingdom of the East Angles .
The Heptarchy is the name for the division of Anglo-Saxon England between the sixth and eighth centuries into petty kingdoms, conventionally the seven kingdoms of East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex, and Wessex.
East Anglia is one of the driest parts of the United Kingdom, with average rainfall ranging from 450 to 750 mm (18 to 30 in). [18] The area receives such low rainfall amounts because low pressure systems and weather fronts from the Atlantic lose a lot of moisture over land (and therefore are usually much weaker) by the time they reach Eastern ...
Suffolk (/ ˈ s ʌ f ə k / ⓘ SUF-ək) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county town. The county has an area of 3,798 km 2 (1,466 sq mi) and a population ...
Map of proposed Fens Waterways Link River Ancholme. The Fens and Anglian system is a collection of rivers in East Anglia in England that are navigable and for which the Environment Agency is the navigation authority. [1] Many of the rivers drain The Fens between Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.