Understand
The East Midlands covers three major landscape areas: The relatively flat coastal plain of Lincolnshire, the river valley of the Trent, the third largest and longest river in England, and the southern end of the Pennine range of hills in Derbyshire.
The second of these contains several large cities: Nottingham, Leicester, Derby and Doncaster, historically centres based around coal mining and heavy industry.
This is one of the drier regions of England.
