Norfolk

This article is about the county in England. For other uses, see Norfolk (disambiguation).

Norfolk is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and with Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast, including The Wash. The county town is Norwich. Norfolk is home to the Norfolk Broads, a famous tourist and wildlife spot.

Norfolk
Ceremonial county
Clockwise from top: Cley next the Sea and its windmill; Norwich Cathedral; and the Guildhall, King's Lynn, showing Norfolk flint flushwork
Coordinates: 52°40′21″N 00°57′00″E
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	East of England
Established	Anglo-Saxon period[1]
Time zone	UTC±00:00 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+01:00 (British Summer Time)
Members of Parliament	10 MPs
Police	Norfolk Constabulary
Ceremonial county
Lord Lieutenant	The Lady Dannatt
High Sheriff	Georgina Roberts (Lady Roberts of Swaffham)[2][3] (2020–21)
Area	[convert: needs a number]
• Ranked	5th of 48
Population (2005 est.)	824,200
• Ranked	24th of 48
Density	153/km2 (400/sq mi)
Ethnicity	96.5% white[4]
Non-metropolitan county
County council	Norfolk County Council
Executive	Conservative
Admin HQ	Norwich
Area	5,372 km2 (2,074 sq mi)
• Ranked	of 26
Population	824,200
• Ranked	7th of 26
Density	153/km2 (400/sq mi)
ISO 3166-2	GB-NFK
GSS code	E10000020
ITL	TLH13
Website	norfolk.gov.uk
Districts
Districts of Norfolk
Districts	Norwich South Norfolk Great Yarmouth Broadland North Norfolk King's Lynn and West Norfolk Breckland

People from Norfolk

• Horatio Nelson (1758—1805), the English naval commander, was born at Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk.^[5]
• Steve Flint (born 1961) in Thetford, at age 19 became, the first Norfolk athlete to run under four minutes for the mile. He did this at the Inter-County Championships in Birmingham on May 26 1980.^[6]