Short answers, pulled from the story.
East Anglia officially covers Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, including the City of Peterborough unitary authority, as the modern NUTS 2 statistical unit. Parts of Essex are sometimes included as well, notably by the London Society of East Anglians.
The name comes from the East Angles, an Anglo-Saxon people who took their name from Anglia, a homeland in what is now the Schleswig-Holstein state of northern Germany.
East Anglia's shield of three golden crowns on a blue background was ascribed by medieval heralds to the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of East Anglia and its Wuffingas dynasty. The design turns out to be almost identical to the coat of arms of Sweden.
The Danes killed King Edmund, the last king of East Anglia, on the 20th of November 869, then captured the kingdom.
The Port of Felixstowe is the busiest container port in the United Kingdom, handling over 40 percent of the country's container traffic. The A14 links it to the Midlands.
Thousands of Puritan families from East Anglia emigrated to New England in America in the 1630s, carrying much of their East Anglian culture with them.