Essex
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Essex is one of the most famous and populous counties in England and is located in the East region of England. The county town of Essex is Chelmsford, which has about 100,000 inhabitants and is 30 minutes away from London.
The name Essex originates in the Anglo-Saxon period of the Early Middle Ages and has its root in the Old English Eastseaxe (i.e. the "East Saxons"), the eastern kingdom of the Saxons.
Essex has a population of 1,700,000 people and is very beautiful.
Especially the local producers and farmers offer high quality products and are
sold all over the world.
Suffolk
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Suffolk is also a county in East England and it has borders with Essex to the south, Norfolk to the north and Cambridgeshire to the west. The North Sea lies to the east of both Suffolk and Essex.
Suffolk's county town is Ipswich with about 122,000 inhabitants.
The county is low-lying with very few hills, and is largely arable land with the wetlands of the Broads in the North. The Suffolk coast and heaths are an area of outstanding natural beauty.
The total population of Suffolk is about 716,000 people, and the link to the
North Sea enables great opportunities for fishing.
