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heartland

[hahrt-land, -luhnd] / ˈhɑrtˌlænd, -lənd /
ADJECTIVE
back country
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KwaZulu-Natal is the heartland of the country's dairy industry.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

Dakota Media, the creative and production studio co-founded in 2020 by North Dakota-born actor Josh Duhamel, is registered in Venice, Calif.—but pitches itself as an expert in the heartland.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

It's a project long pushed for by Canada's oil heartland but one which faces significant hurdles.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

Last year saw sectarian violence in the country's coastal Alawite heartland and in southern Syria's Druze-majority Sweida province.

From Barron's • Jan. 19, 2026

The Maya heartland, in other words, was a network of artificially habitable terrestrial islands.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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