heartland

English

A map of the world heartland from Halford John Mackinder's The Geographical Pivot of History

Etymology

From heart +‎ land.

Noun

heartland (plural heartlands)

The central part of a region defined by geographical or non-geographical criteria, such as support for a political party, faith or similar.
We stayed in the heartland of the French wine-growing regions.

The home counties are the Conservative heartland.
The part of a region considered essential to the viability and survival of the whole.

Coordinate terms

rimland

Derived terms

heartland theory

Translations

central part of a region

Dutch: centrum (nl), kern (nl)
Finnish: sydänmaa (fi), rintamaa, ydinalue (fi)
French: centre (fr) m
German: Kernland (de) m
Irish: croíthailte m pl or f pl
Maori: manowhenua
Portuguese: coração (pt) m
Spanish: núcleo (es) m, corazón (es) m
Swedish: hjärta (sv) n, kärnland n, kärnområde n
Ukrainian: осере́ддя n (oseréddja)
Welsh: perfedd m, perfeddwlad f

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