heartland

1. Synonym of heart (“the seat of the affections or love”).

2. Also in the plural form heartlands:

   The interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant.

   Kerngebiet, Kernland

   осере́ддяoseréddja

3. (specifically)In the geopolitical theory of the English geographer Halford John Mackinder (1861–1947): the interior of the world island comprising north-central Eurasia regarded as politically powerful.

4. (Singapore, in the plural, specifically)Residential districts and planning areas outside the city centre; the new towns of Singapore collectively.

5. (US, attributive, often, specifically)The states in the centre of the United States, chiefly regarded as politically and socially conservative; also, the people living in such states collectively.

6. A region or part of a region particularly associated with or significant for a characteristic, such as an activity, a faith, support for a political party or other organization, etc.

   The home counties are the Conservative heartland.

   We stayed in the heartland of the French wine-growing regions.

   Hochburg

1. Boumerdes has become Algeria's grapes heartland.

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2. My mother was born in the heartland of America, but my father grew up herding goats in Kenya.

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3. Naivasha is Kenya's floriculture heartland and workers at Van den Berg Kenya are trimming, packing and refrigerating bundles of roses.

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