East Anglia
is a peninsula of eastern England. It was named after one of the
ancient Anglo-Saxon
kingdoms, which was named after the homeland of the Angles, Angeln in northern Germany.
The kingdom consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk, names which possibly arose during or after the Danish
settling ("North folk [people]" and "South folk [people]"); the region's boundaries,
however, are vague.
It includes the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, with part (or all of the pre-1974) Cambridgeshire.
Some people include Essex—sometimes only the northern part—and a small part of southern
Lincolnshire
bordering The Wash.
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