Heartland

Noun

 * 1) The centre, or most populous part of a region defined by geographical or non-geographical criteria.
 * It was in the heartland of the French wine growing areas.
 * The home counties are the Conservative heartland.

Thesaurus
airspace, area, belt, confines, continental shelf, corridor, country, department, district, division, environs, ground, hinterland, inland, inlands, interior, land, midland, midlands, milieu, neighborhood, offshore rights, part, parts, place, precincts, premises, purlieus, quarter, region, salient, section, soil, space, terrain, territory, three-mile limit, twelve-mile limit, up-country, vicinage, vicinity, zone

Translations

 * Finnish:, , ydinalue
 * Portuguese: coração


 * Spanish: ,