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'''Norfolk''' is a shire of [[East Anglia]], for statistical purposes classed as part of the East of England. The county town is [[Norwich]] and other major towns include the ports of [[Great Yarmouth]] and [[Kings Lynn]], and the seaside resorts of [[Cromer]], [[Sheringham]] and [[Hunstanton]]. Norfolk is bound by the North Sea to the north and east, with the north-west of the county being located on [[the Wash]], and it has land borders with [[Lincolnshire]] to the north and west, [[Suffolk]] to the south and [[Cambridgeshire]] to the south-west. Hunstanon in the far north-west of the county is around 45 miles as the crow flies from the [[Spurn Head]] peninsula in the [[East Riding of Yorkshire]].
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|population = 807,721 (2021)<ref>[https://wikishire.co.uk/map/#Norfolk/centre=52.673,0.691/zoom=9 Great Britain and Ireland - interactive county map]</ref>
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'''Norfolk''' is a shire of [[East Anglia]], for statistical purposes classed as part of the East of England. The county town is [[Norwich]] and other major towns include the ports of [[Great Yarmouth]] and [[Kings Lynn]], and the seaside resorts of [[Cromer]], [[Sheringham]] and [[Hunstanton]]. Norfolk is bound by the North Sea to the north and east, with the north-west of the county being located on [[the Wash]], and it has land borders with [[Lincolnshire]] to the north and west, [[Suffolk]] to the south and [[Cambridgeshire]] to the south-west. Hunstanon in the far north-west of the county is around 45 miles as the crow flies from the [[Spurn Head]] peninsula in the [[East Riding of Yorkshire]]. Norfolk has a population of around 800,000.
Norfolk is renowned for its flatness, [[Noel Coward]] for example declaring emphatically of the county, ''"Very flat, Norfolk"''. Although it is not quite as low lying as Cambridgeshire, large areas of Norfolk would be threatened by a rise in sea level.
Norfolk is renowned for its flatness, [[Noel Coward]] for example declaring emphatically of the county, ''"Very flat, Norfolk"''. Although it is not quite as low lying as Cambridgeshire, large areas of Norfolk would be threatened by a rise in sea level.