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'''Norfolk''' is a large county in the [[East Anglia]] region 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 has land borders with [[Lincolnshire]], [[Cambridgeshire]] and [[Suffolk]].
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'''Norfolk''' is a large county in the [[East Anglia]] region of eastern [[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 has land borders with [[Lincolnshire]], [[Cambridgeshire]] and [[Suffolk]].
    
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.
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Long stretches of the Norfolk coast is comparatively unspoiled, there are several important nature reserves, and extensive areas of [[saltmarsh]] and [[sand dunes]]. The [[Norfolk Broads]] are an area of ancient flooded [[peat]]-diggings in the county, connected by rivers, that are a popular holiday destination for boating holidays, and were recently declared a [[National Park]].
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Long stretches of the Norfolk coast is comparatively unspoiled, there are several important nature reserves, and extensive areas of [[saltmarsh]] and [[sand dunes]]. The [[Norfolk Broads]] are an area of ancient flooded [[peat]]-diggings in the county, connected by rivers, that are a popular holiday destination for boating holidays, and were recently declared a [[National Park]]. Breckland, in the south of teh county around [[Thetford]], is a thinly-populated area of poor, sandy soil, heathland and pine plantations; much of it is given over to air bases and a battle training area for the British Army.
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Norfolk is quite sparsely inhabited by British standards, and important industries include agriculture and tourism.
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Norfolk is quite sparsely inhabited by British standards (by contrast with the [[Middle Ages]], when it was one of the richest and most densely-populated areas of England), and important industries include agriculture and tourism.
    
[[Category:United Kingdom Counties]]
 
[[Category:United Kingdom Counties]]
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