Etymology

East Anglia

Today it means: The area of eastern England occupied by the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and, depending on whose definitions of the precise boundaries are consulted, some adjacent areas, such as parts of Cambridgeshire and parts of Essex. Full definition →

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From east + Anglia (“the area occupied by the Angles”)

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.