heartland

CEFRB2

/ˈhɑːtlənd/

noun

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noun
The central area of a country or region.
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noun
Extra detail
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.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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

In context

We stayed in the heartland of the French wine-growing regions.
Take heart, small-time shopkeepers in the heartlands.
I applaud the organising committee's decision to hold the concert in the heartlands.

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[R]ound the Pole all three powers lay claim to enormous territories which in fact are largely uninhabited and unexplored: but the balance of power always remains roughly even, and the territory which forms the heartland of each super-state always remains inviolate.
1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 9, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 2, page 172
Israel intercepted a missile fired by Hezbollah near Tel Aviv on Wednesday, an unprecedented attack by the militant group that reached deep into the country’s commercial heartlands and marked a new escalatory step in the conflict between the two sides.
2024 September 25, Irene Nasser, Dana Karni, Helen Regan, Sophie Tanno, “Israel intercepts Hezbollah ballistic missile near Tel Aviv in first such attack”, in CNN, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2024
Those in the HDB [Housing and Development Board] heartland will be able to vote in the airconditioned comfort of their community centres […]
2003, Anais [pseudonym], soc.culture.singapore (Usenet)
Take heart, small-time shopkeepers in the heartlands.
2001 March 16, Alfred Dass, Today, Singapore: Mediacorp Press, →OCLC, page 8
I applaud the organising committee's decision to hold the concert in the heartlands.
2003 July 23, Jason Lee Boon Hong, Today, Singapore: Mediacorp Press, →OCLC, page 10

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From heart (“(figuratively) centre, core, essence”) + land.