East Anglia

<p>East Anglia is an area of the <a href="/facts/East_of_England/FJT2AWYl">East of England</a> within <a href="/facts/Southern_England/4amGCPWW">Southern England</a> and <a href="/facts/Midlands/8mgY3qAe">The Midlands</a>, often defined as including the counties of <a href="/facts/Norfolk/eHSNIRud">Norfolk</a>, <a href="/facts/Suffolk/r8dueSv7">Suffolk</a> and <a href="/facts/Cambridgeshire/CRuIWvVN">Cambridgeshire</a>, with parts of <a href="/facts/Essex/cuUqAlzH">Essex</a> sometimes also included. East Anglia is both a geographical and cultural term. Officially, these places form part of the <a href="/facts/East_of_England/FJT2AWYl">East of England</a> region. The area is also often considered an informal region. 
</p><p>The name derives from the <a href="/facts/Anglo-Saxons/qWLes0LP">Anglo-Saxon</a> <a href="/facts/Heptarchy/4db4CTnT">kingdom</a> of the <a href="/facts/Kingdom_of_East_Anglia/zRs6CmLY">East Angles</a>, a people whose name originated in <a href="/facts/Angeln/UBj3Sfca">Anglia (Angeln)</a>, in what is now <a href="/facts/Northern_Germany/mbX2ywdY">Northern Germany</a>. East Anglia is a predominantly rural region and contains mainly flat or low-lying and agricultural land. The area is known for considerable natural beauty. It shares a long <a href="/facts/North_Sea/htGJNmsb">North Sea</a> coastline and contains one of the ten <a href="/facts/National_parks_of_the_United_Kingdom/tKz0INEd">national parks</a> in England, <a href="/facts/The_Broads/EFNBQDpx">The Broads</a>. <a href="/facts/Norwich/WM3Tj7h5">Norwich</a> is the largest city in the region.
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