Hey from the North Midlands of the UK

[the_bertrum]

I am intrigued...(and perhaps @the_bertrum  can illuminate somewhat ?)  if you hail from  'the North Midlands' does that imply there is a 'South Midlands' ?
Or perhaps even an East and West Midlands ?.....or  a North Northlands.. Mid Midlands...East Southlands et al ?   How do these things get named ?

Down our way (similar sized land mass) it's all cities named after dead Englishmen and first arrivals....apart from the Islands themselves which are... err-um
'North Island' and 'South Island '.... hmmm perhaps I now see how it happens :-)

Welcome LeighP !

There are to my knowledge North, East and West Midlands.  I've never heard tell of a South Midlands.

More broadly, there is in England, "The South", "The Midlands, and "The North".  Scotland is another thing entirely at the top, and Wales is again another thing attached roughly on the side of The Midlands. The North and The South both get subdivided into East and West variants.

Back a few hundred hears, the bit I live in (The North East) was known as "The Debatable Lands" on account of how no one could decide if it was in England or Scotland, or was even a place of it's own entirely.