heartland

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Tule fog—a dense, low-lying mist named for a reedlike plant that grows in the region’s marshes—can settle over California’s vast agricultural heartland, typically from November through March.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Southern Lebanon is the heartland of Lebanon's Shia Muslim community, Hezbollah's main support base.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 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 Alawites are a sect that originated in Shia Islam, with their heartland on Syria's Mediterranean coast.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025

By the statue hangs a faded banner: Bolivia Mar. When Bolivia declared its independence it had a territorial pseudopod that extended southwest from its Andean heartland through the Atacama Desert to the sea.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann