A East Midlands is one of a regions of England and consists of most of the eastern half of the tradional vicinity of the Midlands. Its independent settlements come Derby, Leicester, Northampton and Nottingham.

More settlements in the vicinity include Bolsover, Boston, Chesterfield, Corby, Daventry, Grantham, Kettering, Hinckley, Lincoln, Long Eaton, Loughborough, Lutterworth, Oakham, Mansfield, Matlock, Market Harborough, Melton Mowbray, Newark, Rushden, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Uppingham, Wellingborough and Worksop.

A greatest point in the vicinity is Kinder Scout, in the Peak District, at 636m.

These are divided into a below local government areas:

Derbyshire Derby Nottinghamshire Nottingham Lincolnshire Leicestershire Leicester Rutland Northamptonshire

the East Midlands is as well a six-member constituency for the European Parliament. Its MEPs are

Derek Clark (UKIP) Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative Party) Roger Helmer (Conservative Party) Robert Kilroy-Silk (Veritas) Bill Newton Dunn (Liberal Democrats) Phillip Whitehead (Labour Party)

EMDA, a East Midlands Development Professional, holds funds from either central government to enable regeneration.

Nottingham East Midlands Airport is situated between a ternion independent cities, & a area is served by Midland Mainline and GNER high-speed trains to London. A M1 motorway also serves the tierce big urban sprawl.

Local media include:

A East Midlands vicinity of BBC Television, based within Nottingham, which produces many regional tv program, including a news program BBC East Midlands Today. This excludes virtually all of Northamptonshire. MATV, based around Leicester, which caters to the locality's big South Asian people. BBC Radios Derby, Leicester, Lincolnshire, Northampton and Nottingham. BBC Radio Leicester was the number 1 local radio station in the United Kingdom. Numerous commercial radio stations: Leicester Sound, Trent FM (Nottingham) Ram FM (Derby & Burtin-on-Trent), Peak FM (Chesterfield and Northward Derbyshire), Lincs FM (Lincolnshire & Newark-in-Trent) and Sabras Radio. Many newspapers, a largest of which include a Nottingham Evening Post, Derby Evening Telegraph, and Leicester Mercury.

a free definition of the East Midlands would include the City of Peterborough, Burton-upon-Trent in Staffordshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire.