heartland

باللغة العربية: قَلْب، مِنْطَقَة مَرْكَزِيَّة

1. Synonym of heart (“the seat of the affections or love”).
2. The interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant.
3. In the geopolitical theory of the English geographer Halford John Mackinder (1861–1947): the interior of the world island comprising north-central Eurasia, regarded as politically powerful.
4. Residential districts and planning areas outside the city centre; the new towns of Singapore collectively.
5. The states in the centre of the United States, chiefly regarded as politically and socially conservative; also, the people living in such states collectively. (US)
6. A region or part of a region particularly associated with or significant for a characteristic, such as an activity, a faith, support for a political party or other organization, etc. · The home counties are the Conservative heartland.· We stayed in the heartland of the French wine-growing regions.

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