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NUTS 2 statistical regions of the United Kingdom

  • EssexIn the Iron Age, the land now known as Essex was controlled by a local tribe called the Trinovantes. They established their capital at Colchester, which…
  • East AngliaThe name East Anglia first appeared in the 6th century as the territory of the East Angles, a people whose ancestors came from Angeln in what is now…
  • Greater ManchesterIn 1835, Manchester stood without challenge as the first and greatest industrial city in the world. This transformation began centuries earlier when Iron Age…
  • LancashireThe year 1086 marks the first written record of the land that would become Lancashire. The Domesday Book listed much of this territory under Yorkshire and…
  • Northern IrelandOn the 3rd of May 1921, the Government of Ireland Act 1920 came into force and officially created Northern Ireland. This legislation divided the island of…