page_title: East Midlands
section_title: Environment
hierarchical_section_title: East Midlands / Geography / Environment
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of the Major Oak in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, UK in December 2006 Polski: Stary dąb Major Oak w lesie Sherwood w Wielkiej Brytanii (grudzień 2006 rok)
context_page_description: The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. It consists of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland. The region has an area of 15,627 km², with a population over 4.5 million in 2011. There are six main urban centres, Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Mansfield, Northampton and Nottingham. Others include Boston, Chesterfield, Corby, Grantham, Hinckley, Kettering, Loughborough, Newark-on-Trent, Skegness, Wellingborough, and Worksop.
  Relative proximity to London and its position on the national motorway and trunk road networks help the East Midlands to thrive as an economic hub. Nottingham and Leicester are each classified as a sufficiency-level world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.
  The region is primarily served by East Midlands Airport, which lies between Derby, Loughborough and Nottingham.
context_section_description: Areas of the East Midlands designated by the East Midlands Biodiversity Partnership as Biodiversity Conservation Areas include:
  Charnwood Forest
  Coversand Heaths
  Derbyshire Peak Fringe and Lower Derwent
  Humberhead Levels
  Leighland Forest
  The Lincolnshire Limewoods and Heaths
  The Lincolnshire coast
  The Peak District
  Rockingham Forest
  Sherwood Forest
  Rutland, SW Lincolnshire and N Northamptonshire
  The Wash
  Areas of the East Midlands designated by the East Midlands Biodiversity Partnership as Biodiversity Enhancement Areas include:
  The Coalfields
  The Daventry Grasslands
  The Fens
  The Lincolnshire Coastal Grazing Marshes
  The Lincolnshire Wolds
  The National Forest
  The Yardley-Whittlewood Ridge
  Two of the nationally designated Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty are:
  The Peak District
  The Lincolnshire Wolds
caption: Major Oak in Sherwood Forest; a traditional landmark of the north-east Midlands.
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