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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 .
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.
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine Suffolk with Norfolk as a sub-region of the East of England region, with the creation of the cross-county boundary constituency of Waveney Valley.
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.
It is in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB around 92 miles (148 km) north-east of London, 9 miles (14 km) south of Southwold and 7 miles (11 km) north of Leiston, on the North Sea coast. In the Anglo-Saxon period , Dunwich was the capital of the Kingdom of the East Angles , but the harbour and most of the town have since disappeared due to ...
The region – typically defined as comprising the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire ... Still, East Anglia is a region of great natural beauty and cultural richness, and it’s ...
Description: Map of Suffolk, UK with the following information shown: . Administrative borders; Coastline, lakes and rivers; Roads and railways; Urban areas; Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 160%