East of England
The East of England is the most easterly region of England and indeed of the whole United Kingdom. It lies broadly to the north of London, the Thames estuary and South East England, to the south of the Wash and to the east of the East Midlands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Cambridge and Norwich.
Cambridge
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Cambridge is a university city in Cambridgeshire in England. It is a city of crocuses and daffodils on the Backs, of green open spaces and cattle grazing only 500 yards from the market square.
Norwich
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Norwich, a two-cathedral city, is the capital of the English county of Norfolk, within the larger region of East Anglia. It lies some 185 km NNE of London, and as well as being a convenient base for exploring the Broads and the North Norfolk Coast is also…
Peterborough
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Peterborough is a city in Cambridgeshire in East Anglia, with a population of 202,259 in 2019. It's industrial and ringed by bland "New Town" residential districts, yet has an attractive historic centre around its cathedral, where two British monarchs were buried.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Essex and Norfolk.
Essex
Essex is a large county in East Anglia, England. It lies to the east and north-east of London, and is home to three cities, several bustling market towns, and hundreds of countryside villages.
Norfolk
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Norfolk is a low-lying and predominantly rural county in eastern England, in the region known as East Anglia. It has county borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest, and with Suffolk to the south.
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire, on London's northern border, is a predominantly rural county. The countryside is broken up by several market towns like Hertford and Hitchin, large towns like Watford and Stevenage, one cathedral city in St Albans, and dozens of smaller villages.
Suffolk
Suffolk is a picturesque county in England within East Anglia. Suffolk encompasses one of the most ancient parts of England and has maintained its largely agricultural roots.
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire is a historic county in the East Anglia region of England, part of the United Kingdom.
Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire is a county in the middle of England, a little towards the south-east in the East of England. Bedfordshire shares borders with Northamptonshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Buckinghamshire to the west and Hertfordshire to the south.
East of England
- Type: Region with 6,130,000 residents
- Description: one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS
- Also known as: “East”, “East England”, and “Eastern”
- Neighbors: East Midlands and South East England
- Categories: region of England and ITL 1 statistical regions of England
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“East of England” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شرق إنجلترا”
- Aragonese: “Este d’Anglaterra”
- Armenian: “Արևելյան Անգլիա”
- Asturian: “Este d’Inglaterra”
- Azerbaijani: “İngiltərənin şərqi”
- Azerbaijani: “Şərqi İngiltərə”
- Basque: “Ekialdeko Ingalaterra”
- Bavarian: “East of England”
- Belarusian: “Усходняя Ангельшчына”
- Belarusian: “Усходняя Англія”
- Bengali: “পূর্ব ইংল্যান্ড”
- Breton: “Reter Bro-Saoz”
- Bulgarian: “Източна Англия”
- Catalan: “Est d’Anglaterra”
- Chinese: “Tang Eng-lân”
- Chinese: “东英格兰”
- Chinese: “東英格蘭”
- Croatian: “Istočna Engleska”
- Czech: “Východní Anglie”
- Danish: “East of England”
- Dutch: “East of England”
- Esperanto: “Oriento de Anglio”
- Finnish: “Itä-Englanti”
- French: “Angleterre de l’Est”
- French: “Est de l’Angleterre”
- Galician: “Leste de Inglaterra”
- German: “East England”
- German: “East of England”
- German: “Ost-England”
- Greek: “Ανατολική Αγγλία”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tûng England”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tûng Yîn-kak-làn”
- Hebrew: “מזרח אנגליה”
- Hebrew: “מזרחה של אנגליה”
- Hindi: “ईस्ट ऑफ़ इंग्लैंड”
- Hungarian: “East of England”
- Hungarian: “Kelet-Anglia”
- Icelandic: “Austur-England”
- Indonesian: “Inggris Timur”
- Irish: “Sasana Thoir”
- Italian: “Est dell’Inghilterra”
- Japanese: “イースト・オブ・イングランド”
- Japanese: “東イングランド”
- Korean: “이스트오브잉글랜드”
- Latvian: “Anglijas Austrumi”
- Lithuanian: “Rytų Anglija”
- Macedonian: “Источна Англија”
- Marathi: “पूर्व इंग्लंड”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tang Eng-lân”
- Mirandese: “Leste de la Anglaterra”
- Northern Frisian: “Uasten faan Ingelun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Øst-England”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aust-England”
- Norwegian: “Øst-England”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Èst d’Anglatèrra”
- Ossetian: “Скæсæн Англис”
- Persian: “شرق انگلستان”
- Polish: “East of England”
- Polish: “Wschodnia Anglia”
- Portuguese: “East England”
- Portuguese: “East of England”
- Portuguese: “Leste da Inglaterra”
- Quechua: “Anti Inlatirra suyu”
- Romanian: “East of England”
- Russian: “Восточная Англия”
- Serbian: “Источна Енглеска”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Istočna Engleska”
- Slovak: “East of England”
- Slovenian: “East of England”
- Slovenian: “Vzhodna Anglija”
- Southern Dagaare: “Eastern”
- Southern Dagaare: “England goɔŋ”
- Spanish: “Este de Inglaterra”
- Spanish: “Región del Este de Inglaterra”
- Swahili: “Uingereza Mashariki”
- Swedish: “East Anglia”
- Swedish: “Östra England”
- Tatar: “Көнбатыш Англия”
- Thai: “ภาคตะวันออกของอังกฤษ”
- Thai: “อีสต์ออฟอิงแลนด์”
- Turkish: “Doğu İngiltere”
- Ukrainian: “Східна Англія”
- Urdu: “مشرق انگلستان”
- Urdu: “مشرقی انگلستان”
- Vietnamese: “East of England”
- Vlaams: “East of England”
- Welsh: “Dwyrain Lloegr”
- Western Frisian: “Easten fan Ingelân”
- Wu Chinese: “东英格兰”
- Yue Chinese: “東英格蘭”
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