heartland
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There are already fears that China's industrial heartland, which serves as the factory of the world, will be impacted in the long term if this crisis continues.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
Job losses were most acute in Ontario, the country’s industrial heartland and home to the bulk of the automotive industry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
The community is otherwise mostly present across their coastal heartland in Latakia and Tartus provinces.
From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025
The succession of dynastic governments that ruled over China’s heartland were sometimes ethnically Han, and sometimes northerners—Mongols and Manchus especially—who ruled empires now referred to as “Chinese.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Roughly speaking, the northwest-southeast line on which it joins the mainland runs through the middle of the Maya heartland.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Political Geography - Middle School
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