East Anglia

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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]"); but 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. Some of the area is characterised by its flatness, consisting of fenland and reclaimed marshland, though much of Suffolk and parts of Norfolk are gently rolling hills. The perception of the area as flat is in Noel Coward's Private Lives "Very flat, Norfolk"

The principal East Anglian cities include Norwich (the nominal capital), Ipswich and Cambridge. Peterborough and Colchester are often classified as East Anglian cities though Colchester and Ipswich are technically towns.

East Anglia forms part of the East of England administrative region. In the European nomenclature of territorial units for statistics East Anglia is a region comprising Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.