heartland

5 definitions • 8 examples

the central part of a country or area:

the heartland of America

the part of a country that is most important for a particular activity, or where a political party has the most support:

the old industrial heartlands

UK the Labour/Tory heartlands

the central or most important part of an area:

The Midwest is the agricultural heartland of the US.

an area where a large number of people support a particular political party and vote for it in an election:

Turnouts were as low as 14% in parts of the so-called heartland.

the Labour/Tory/Republican heartland(s)

an area where a particular industry is very important:

heartland of sth Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia have become Europe's new heartland of carmaking investment.

agricultural/industrial/commercial heartland(s) At the center of India's industrial heartland, the hoped-for flood of jobs has not yet come.