Northern England

Northern England, also known as the North of England or simply the North, is the most northern area of England. There are three statistical regions defined as northern England: the North East; the North West; and Yorkshire and the Humber. These regions have a combined population of approximately 14.9 million as of the 2011 Census, over an area of 37,331 km² with 17 of the 69 cities in the United Kingdom. Northern England is considered culturally and economically distinct from the South of England, as well as from the Midlands of England. This distinction is sometimes referred to as the north-south divide. The northern boundary is the Anglo-Scottish border, and the county of Cheshire is at the England–Wales border to the west, but there are varying interpretations of where the region's southern border with the Midlands lies, some considering it to lie along the River Trent and the most northerly occupation of the Saxons.

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