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Norfolk / nɔrfək / is one of the forty seven counties of England, United Kingdom, with capital in Norwich. Located in the East region, it borders on the northwest with the Wash estuary, on the north and east with the North Sea, on the south with Suffolk and on the west with Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. The county occupies an area of ​​5371 km² and its population in 2003 was 810 695 inhabitants. The highest point of the county is located in Beacon Hill with an exact height of 100 meters above sea level. It is the highest point of the Cromer Ridge formed by old glaciers. Apart from the capital, other important cities are King's Lynn and Great Yarmouth.

There are indications that the area was inhabited during the prehistoric era. Some remnants of the Iron Age have been found throughout the county. In times of Roman occupation, Norfolk was an agricultural county. Numerous Roman roads cross the county. Norfolk and its southern neighbor Suffolk together make up most of the Kingdom of Estanglia. The Anglos colonized this region in the 5th century and later became "the north folk" and "the south folk", hence "Norfolk" and "Suffolk". Between 1785 and 1786 the first civil aviation activities were carried out in Norfolk when several balloon flights departed from the city of Quantrell.