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Where is England?

England (English: England) is the main body of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, so the word England is also used to refer to Britain.

England is located in the southeast of Great Britain, south of Scotland and east of Wales. It also includes the Isle of Wight, the Sealy Islands and coastal islands, covering an area of about 654.38+0.3 million square kilometers. It is the largest, most populous and most developed area in Britain. Historically, Hadrian's Great Wall was the dividing line between England and Scotland.

The name engla-London comes from "the Angles", and its original name "engla-London" means "the land of the Angles". They live in this place after the aborigines and belong to western European nations.

The word "England" can be understood as "the territory to which people who used to live in Anglern, Germany moved".

Angel refers to the Anglelin Peninsula in Schleswig, Germany (German: Angeln, narrow sense; The word "Angeln" has the same origin as "agnail" in English and "eng" in German. Language transliteration: Anglia, a western European, lived in present-day England after the Roman Empire occupied the British Peninsula in AD 42.

Pennines runs through the north and the middle, with an average elevation of 200-500m. There are abundant coal and iron resources on both sides of the mountain. The southeast is a plain with little ups and downs, and the climate is warm and humid. The main rivers are Thames, Severn and Trent.

Reference: England-Baidu Encyclopedia