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
The restaurant recreates a vibe straight out of the U.S. heartland and attracts as many as 4,000 customers daily.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 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
About a century before our imaginary surveillance tour, though, the Maya heartland entered a kind of Dark Ages.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Political Geography - Middle School
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