Heartland

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

Boumerdes has become Algeria's grapes heartland.

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

[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.

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.

Those in the HDB [Housing and Development Board] heartland will be able to vote in the airconditioned comfort of their community centres […]

Take heart, small-time shopkeepers in the heartlands.

I applaud the organising committee's decision to hold the concert in the heartlands.

The home counties are the Conservative heartland.

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