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

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

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025

The gateway to the industrial heartland of Southern China runs up through the wide, verdant swath of the Pearl River Delta.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell