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East Anglia is an area of Southern England often defined as including the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, [1] with parts of Essex sometimes also included. East Anglia is both a geographical and cultural term. Officially, these places form part of the East of England region. [2]
The East of England includes the ceremonial counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, of which Essex has the highest population. [6] The northern part of the region, namely consisting of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, is popularly known as East Anglia. [7]
Map of East Anglia, showing the two counties typically accepted as East Anglian (Norfolk and Suffolk) in red and the two counties only partially accepted (Cambridgeshire and Essex) in pink. Items portrayed in this file
The counties of England are a type of subdivision of England.Counties have been used as administrative areas in England since Anglo-Saxon times. There are three definitions of county in England: the 48 ceremonial counties used for the purposes of lieutenancy; the 84 metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties for local government; [a] and the 39 historic counties.
Norfolk (/ ˈ n ɔːr f ə k / NOR-fək) is a ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and east, Cambridgeshire to the west, and Suffolk to the south.
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 county has its roots in the Middle Saxon Province of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Essex. Norfolk: Norf [94] 4 Originally the northern half of the Kingdom of East Anglia, it was first mentioned in Anglo-Saxon wills dating from the middle of the 11th century. Northamptonshire: County of Northampton Northants [92] [93] [94] 22
They were established in 1994 [1] and follow the 1974–96 county borders. They are a continuation of the former 1940s standard regions which followed the 1889–1974 administrative county borders. Between 1994 and 2011, all nine regions had partly devolved functions; they no longer fulfil this role, continuing to be used for limited ...