East of England

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East of England
Region
From top, left to right: Norfolk Broads; Suffolk Coast; Hatfield House; Peterborough; Leighton Buzzard; Cambridge; Huntingdon; Colchester
East of England region shown within England
Coordinates: 52°14′N 0°25′E / 52.24°N 0.41°E / 52.24; 0.41
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	England
GO established	1994
RDA established	1998
GO abolished	2011
RDA abolished	31 March 2012
Subdivisions	6 counties Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire Essex Hertfordshire Norfolk Suffolk 1 combined authorities Cambridgeshire and Peterborough 45 districts 6 unitary 39 non-metropolitan districts in 5 non-metropolitan counties
Government [1]
• Type	Local authority leaders' board
• Body	East of England Local Government Association
• MPs	58 MPs (of 650)
Area [2]
• Total	7,563 sq mi (19,587 km2)
• Land	7,381 sq mi (19,116 km2)
• Rank	2nd
Population  (2022)[3]
• Total	6,398,497
• Rank	4th
• Density	870/sq mi (335/km2)
Ethnicity (2021) [4]
• Ethnic groups	List 86.5% White 6.4% Asian 2.9% Black 2.8% Mixed 1.4% other
Religion (2021) [4]
• Religion	List 46.6% Christianity 40.2% no religion 3.7% Islam 1.4% Hinduism 0.7% Judaism 0.4% Sikhism 0.4% Buddhism 0.6% other 6.1% not stated
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)
ITL code	TLH
GSS code	E12000006

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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. Essex has the highest population in the region.^[5]

The population of the East of England region in 2022 was 6,398,497.^[3] Bedford, Luton, Basildon, Peterborough, Southend-on-Sea, Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester, Chelmsford and Cambridge are the region's most populous settlements.^[6] According to Census 2021, Peterborough is the largest city in the East of England at 215,000. The southern part of the region lies in the London commuter belt.