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The East of England is one of the nine official regions of England in the United Kingdom. This region was created in 1994 and was adopted for statistics purposes from 1999. It includes the ceremonial counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.
East Anglia is an area in the East of England. It comprises the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, with Cambridgeshire and Essex also included in some definitions. The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the East Angles, a people whose name originated in Anglia, in what is now Northern Germany.
Essex (/ ˈ ɛ s ɪ k s / ESS-iks) is a ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the south, Greater London to the south-west, and Hertfordshire to the west.
May 18, 2024 · East Anglia was one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, consisting of the north people (Norfolk), the south people (Suffolk), and adjacent communities. Raedwald (died between 616 and 628) was the first king of East Anglia, but about him little else is known.
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England. / 51.500°N 0.117°W / 51.500; -0.117. England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. [6] It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers approximately 62%, and over 100 smaller adjacent islands.
The East of England consists of the counties to the north and north-east of London, as far north as the Wash - the north of Cambridgeshire. It includes the area historically known as East Anglia, plus the counties of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.
