heartland

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun the central region of a country or continent; especially a region that is important to a country or to a culture

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

“It’s the heartland of the blacks who occupy all Malaysia,” Mr. de Rienzi has said; and I hadn’t the foggiest inkling that sailors’ luck was about to bring me face to face with these daunting Andaman aborigines. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne

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