Capital letters query: South East England

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How would you correctly capitalize north, south, etc?

For example:

1. I am from south east England.
2. In south east England, there are houses.

I don't as in these examples the compass point is like an adjective. I would use a capital letter for North Yorkshire, the Western Isles, Southern Ocean and East Anglia, as these are proper names. I live in south-west England, my aunt in north Norfolk, which is in East Anglia!

I think I’d capitalise them all as it looks better, I know it’s probably wrong officially but I think when it’s describing regions like that eg the South East, the East Midlands etc, it is clearer.

To me, it's the name of the region ("I live in South East England") so I'd capitalise for that. If you said "I live in the south east", I wouldn't.

I would always capitalise South Wales, but not "the south of Wales", although nobody ever says that.