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Climate and altitude zones

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Death zone In mountaineering, the death zone refers to altitudes above a certain point where the pressure of oxygen is Effects of high altitude on humans, insufficient to sustain human life for an extended time span. This point is generally tagged as , less ...
(originally the lethal zone), altitudes above a certain point where the amount of oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life for an extended time span * Frigid zone, a geographical zone on Earth *
Hardiness zone A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined as having a certain average annual minimum temperature, a factor relevant to the survival of many plants. In some systems other statistics are included in the calculations. The original and most wide ...
, a geographically defined zone in which a specific category of plant life is capable of growing *
Temperate zone In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (23.5° to 66.5° N/S of Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth. These zones generally have wider temperature ranges throughout t ...
, a geographical zone on Earth *
Torrid zone The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator. They are defined in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere at N and the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...
, a geographical zone on Earth


Military zones

* Zone, any of the divisions of France during the World War II German occupation * Zone, any of the divisions of Germany during the post-World War II Allied occupation *
DMZ A demilitarized zone (DMZ or DZ) is an area in which treaties or agreements between nations, military powers or contending groups forbid military installations, activities, or personnel. A DZ often lies along an established frontier or bounda ...
or DZ or demilitarized zone, an area in which treaties or agreements between nations, military powers, or contending groups forbid military installations, activities, or personnel *
Green Zone The Green Zone ( ar, المنطقة الخضراء, translit=al-minṭaqah al-ḫaḍrā) is the most common name for the International Zone of Baghdad. It was a area in the Karkh district of central Baghdad, Iraq, that was the governmental ...
, a military zone in Baghdad, Iraq *
Korean Demilitarized Zone The Korean Demilitarized Zone (Korean: ; Hanbando Bimujang Jidae) is a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula near the 38th parallel north. The demilitarized zone (DMZ) is a border barrier that divides the peninsula roughly in ha ...


Place-names

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Administrative divisions of India The administrative divisions of India are subnational administrative units of India; they are composed of a nested hierarchy of administrative divisions. Indian states and territories frequently use different local titles for the same level ...
, known as Zones *
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone The Capitol Hill Occupied Protest or the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP), originally Free Capitol Hill and later the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), was an Occupation (protest), occupation protest and self-declared permanent autonomo ...
, commonly known as "The Zone", a self-declared commune and partially autonomous intentional community in Seattle, Washington *
Zone (colony) Zone ( grc, Ζώνη) was an ancient Greek ''polis'' on the Aegean coast of ancient Thrace on a promontory of the same name, a short distance to the west of the entrance of the Lacus Stentoris. According to Apollonius of Rhodes and Mela, it was ...
(Ζώνη), an ancient Greek city *
Zone, Lombardy Zone ( Brescian: ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, northern Italy. It is situated in a mountain valley east of Lake Iseo Lake Iseo or Iseo lake ( ; it, Lago d'Iseo ; lmo, Lach d'Izé, label=Eastern Lombard), also kno ...
, a ''comune'' in the province of Brescia *
List of zones of Ethiopia The regions of Ethiopia are administratively divided into 68 or more zones ( am, ዞን, ''zonə'').
, administrative divisions * The Zone (''die Zone'' in German), a derogatory term for the
German Democratic Republic German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ger ...
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Zone Coopérative de l'Université Laval Coopérative de l'Université Laval (often designated by its commercial diminutive "Coop Zone") is a cooperative involved in the sale of products for the community of Université Laval. With a turnover of 50,9 million Canadian dollars and 58 442 ...
, a university cooperative in Quebec, Canada *
Zone of alienation The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation, Belarusian: Хона адчужэння Чарнобыльскай АЭС, ''Zona adčužennia Čarnobyĺskaj AES'', russian: Зона отчуждения Чернобыльской АЭС ...
, the exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl disaster *
Zones of Nepal Until the establishment of seven new provinces in 2015, Nepal was divided into 14 administrative zones ( Nepali: अञ्चल; ''anchal'') and 77 districts ( Nepali: जिल्ला; ''jillā''). The 14 administrative zones were grouped ...
, administrative divisions


Other places

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Exclusion zone An exclusion zone is a territorial division established for various, case-specific purposes. Per the United States Department of Defense, an exclusion zone is a territory where an authority prohibits specific activities in a specific geographic ...
, a geographic area in which certain activities are prohibited *
International zone An international zone is any area not fully subject to the border control policies of the state in which it is located. There are several types of international zones ranging from special economic zones and sterile zones at ports of entry exe ...
, an extraterritorial political zone


Apparel

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Zone (vestment) The zone ( el, ζώνη, ''zōnē'') is a form of girdle or belt common in the ancient eastern Mediterranean. The term occurs in Homer, for instance, as ( el, ζώνην, ''zonēn'') girdle and can also refer to the waist itself. Classical Gree ...
, a belt worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church * Zone, a
girdle A belt, especially if a cord or rope, is called a girdle if it is worn as part of Christian liturgical vestments, or in certain historical, literary or sports contexts. Girdles are used to close a cassock in Christian denominations, including th ...
worn by a woman around the waist


Arts, entertainment, and media


Films

* ''The Zone'' (2003 film), a Swedish short documentary * ''The Zone'' (2011 film), an American thriller *'' Transformers: Zone'', a 1990 OVA


Games

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Zone (video games) In a MUD or MMO, zone and area are terms used to refer to one of the parts of the shared virtual environment. They should not be confused with levels (where a player proceeds through a series of stages in a linear or semi-linear manner). Areas m ...
, an area within a virtual environment * Zone.com, alternate name for
MSN Games MSN Games (also known as Zone.com - formerly known as The Village, Internet Gaming Zone, MSN Gaming Zone, and MSN Games by Zone.com) is a casual gaming web site, with single player, multiplayer, PC download, and social casino video games. Games ...
* Zones, level names in early ''
Sonic the Hedgehog is a Japanese video game series and media franchise created by Sega. The franchise follows Sonic, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who battles the evil Doctor Eggman, a mad scientist. The main ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' games are platformers mo ...
'' games


Literature

* ''Zone'' (magazine), an Argentina-based forum for international poetry and prose * ''Zone'' (play), a French language play written by Canadian Marcel Dubé * "Zone", a poem by
Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire) of the Wąż coat of arms. (; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish descent. Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the ...
* ''Zones'' (novel), 1997, by Damien Broderick and Rorey Barns


Music


Groups and labels

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Zone (band) were all-female rock band started in Sapporo, Japan in 1997. Although it initially started as a dance group, they turned to an all-female band. Zone has been categorized in a new genre called "bandol" (a portmanteau of the words band and idol) ...
, an all-female J-pop group *
Zones (band) Zones were a Scottish people, Scottish power pop and New wave music, new wave band founded in late 1977, following the demise of PVC2 (formerly the bubbleglam and soft rock band Slik). Career PVC2 consisted of Midge Ure (future Ultravox frontma ...
, a British punk band *
Zone Records DJ Icey, (born Eddie Pappa), is an American DJ, electronic music producer, and remixer, credited by Allmusic as having helped to "jump-start the increasingly fertile dance scene in and around Orlando, Florida, Orlando, FL, during the '90s." ''E, th ...
, a record label


Albums

* ''Zone'' (album), 1996, by Southern Sons * ''The Zone'' (album), 2007, by Enter Shikari * ''Zones'' (album), 1983, by Hawkwind


Songs

* "Zone", a 1976 single by The Rhythm Makers * "Zone", a 2019 single by
Arizona Zervas Arizona Zervas, (born April 19, 1995) is an American rapper and singer. He is widely known for his song " Roxanne", which reached number four on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 2019, after being prominently featured in Spotify playlists.
*"Zone", a bonus track on the 2017 digital release of the Macintosh Plus album ''
Floral Shoppe is the ninth studio album by the American electronic musician Vektroid under the alias Macintosh Plus, released on December 9, 2011 by the independent record label Beer on the Rug. It is her ninth full-length album and was one of the first rel ...
'' * "The Zone" (song), a 2011 song by The Weeknd


Television

* ''The Zone'' (Australian TV program), a 1990s Australian video games news and reviews television program * ''The Zone'' (British game show), a 2007 interactive game show * The Zone (New Zealand TV channel), a former TV channel *
The Zone (ITV) JML Direct TV is a generic name for a series of British shopping channels broadcasting on the Sky, Freesat and Freeview platforms, owned by JML Direct Limited. JML Direct TV originally launched on Sky channel 664, on 1 October 2002 as JML Dire ...
, a British teleshopping and interactive gaming TV channel *
The Zone (YTV) ''The Zone'' is the flagship weekday afternoon programming block on the Canadian television channel YTV. It currently airs between 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. ET and PT in Canada. On Saturday mornings, it is called ''The Zone Weekend' ...
, a Canadian television programming block


Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* 1280 The Zone, the branding of the American radio station
KZNS (AM) KZNS (1280 kHz, The KSL Sports Zone) is a commercial AM radio station in Salt Lake City, Utah. It airs a sports radio format and is owned by Jazz Communications LLC. Programming is simulcast on co-owned KZNS-FM 97.5, licensed to Coalville, Utah. ...
*''A Nymph unclasping her Zone'', a sculpture by
Richard Westmacott Sir Richard Westmacott (15 July 17751 September 1856) was a British sculptor. Life and career Westmacott studied with his father, also named Richard Westmacott (the elder), Richard Westmacott, at his studio in Mount Street, off Grosvenor ...
* The Zone, a fictional area in the Andrei Tarkovsky movie ''
Stalker Stalking is unwanted and/or repeated surveillance by an individual or group toward another person. Stalking behaviors are interrelated to harassment and intimidation and may include following the victim in person or monitoring them. The term ...
''


Computing

* Zone, a region in
region-based memory management In computer science, region-based memory management is a type of memory management in which each allocated object is assigned to a region. A region, also called a zone, arena, area, or memory context, is a collection of allocated objects that ca ...
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DNS zone A DNS zone is a specific portion of the DNS namespace in the Domain Name System (DNS), which is managed by a specific organization or administrator. A DNS zone is an administrative space that allows for more granular control of the DNS componen ...
, a portion of computer network namespace *
Fibre Channel zoning In storage networking, Fibre Channel zoning is the partitioning of a Fibre Channel fabric into smaller subsets to restrict interference, add security, and to simplify management. While a SAN makes available several devices and/or ports to a sin ...
, a method of network partitioning *
Solaris Zones Solaris Containers (including Solaris Zones) is an implementation of operating system-level virtualization technology for x86 and SPARC systems, first released publicly in February 2004 in build 51 beta of Solaris 10, and subsequently in the fi ...
, a virtualization feature of the Solaris operating system


Science and technology

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Zone (convex polytope) In model checking, a field of computer science, a difference bound matrix (DBM) is a data structure used to represent some convex polytopes called zones. This structure can be used to efficiently implement some geometrical operations over zones, s ...
, in geometry/algorithmic, a kind of convex polytope *
Brillouin zone In mathematics and solid state physics, the first Brillouin zone is a uniquely defined primitive cell in reciprocal space. In the same way the Bravais lattice is divided up into Wigner–Seitz cells in the real lattice, the reciprocal lattice i ...
, the primitive cell of a lattice in reciprocal space *
Chronozone A chronozone or chron is a unit in chronostratigraphy, defined by events such as geomagnetic reversals (magnetozones), or based on the presence of specific fossils (biozone or biochronozone). According to the International Commission on Stratig ...
, a sequence of rocks deposited within a particular time interval *
Erogenous zone An erogenous zone (from Greek , ''érōs'' "love"; and English ''-genous'' "producing", from Greek , ''-genḗs'' "born") is an area of the human body that has heightened sensitivity, the stimulation of which may generate a sexual response, su ...
, an area on the body which may respond sexually to stimulation *
Spherical zone In geometry, a spherical segment is the solid defined by cutting a sphere or a ball with a pair of parallel planes. It can be thought of as a spherical cap with the top truncated, and so it corresponds to a spherical frustum. The surface of the ...
, the surface area of a spherical segment * Thermal zone, or just zone, in heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (
HVAC Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) is the use of various technologies to control the temperature, humidity, and purity of the air in an enclosed space. Its goal is to provide thermal comfort and acceptable indoor air quality. HV ...
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Zone diet The Zone diet is a fad diet emphasizing low-carbohydrate consumption. It was created by Barry Sears, an American biochemist.Baron M. Fighting obesity Part 1: Review of popular low-carb diets. Health Care Food Nutr Focus. 2004 Oct;21(10):1, 3-6, 1 ...
, a diet involving precise proportions by weight of protein, fat, and carbohydrate *
Zone plate A zone plate is a device used to focus light or other things exhibiting wave character.G. W. Webb, I. V. Minin and O. V. Minin, “Variable Reference Phase in Diffractive Antennas”, ''IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine'', vol. 53, no. 2, ...
, a device used to focus light or other things exhibiting wave character *
Zone System The Zone System is a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development, formulated by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer. Adams described the Zone System as " ..not an invention of mine; it is a codification of the principles o ...
, a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development


Sports

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Zone defense Zone defense is a type of defense, used in team sports, which is the alternative to man-to-man defense; instead of each player guarding a corresponding player on the other team, each defensive player is given an area (a zone) to cover. A zone def ...
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Zoning (Australian rules football) In Australian rules football, zoning (originally called district football, or electorate football in South Australia) refers to a system whereby a given area, either region or lower-level football league, is reserved exclusively for one club. Zo ...
, a method of allocating players to clubs


Other uses

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Zone (guitar) The Fender Zone is a fretted electric bass guitar, introduced in 2001. It has a slightly lighter and smaller body than previous Fender basses. The 2004 models were made of solid Mahogany and Walnut or Alder and Maple timbers and have a pair of ...
, a Fender bass guitar model * Zone, a short name for
DVD region code DVD region codes are a digital rights management technique introduced in 1997. It is designed to allow rights holders to control the international distribution of a DVD release, including its content, release date, and price, all according to ...
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Zones (permaculture) Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems. It includes a set of design principles derived using Systems theory, whole-systems thinking. It applies ...
, a method of planning civil and agricultural placement *
Da share z0ne @dasharez0ne (also known as da share z0ne, Da motha fuckin share z0ne, da z0ne, DSZ, and other variations) is a social media account on Twitter and Facebook, known for posting image macros pairing skeleton art and absurdist or ironic captions ...
, a satirical social media account *
Flow (psychology) In positive psychology, a flow state, also known colloquially as being in the zone, is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process ...
, or "the zone", a mental state attained by a person fully immersed in some activity *
Time zone A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, Commerce, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between Country, countries and their Administrative division, subdivisions instead of ...
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Zone pricing Geographical pricing, in marketing, is the practice of modifying a basic list price based on the geographical location of the buyer. It is intended to reflect the costs of shipping to different locations. There are several ways to apply the cost ...
, based on the location of the buyer *
Zoning Zoning is a method of urban planning in which a municipality or other tier of government divides land into areas called zones, each of which has a set of regulations for new development that differs from other zones. Zones may be defined for a si ...
, in urban planning, a system of land-use regulation * TheZone, summer camp of
Oorah ''Oorah'' is a battle cry common in the United States Marine Corps since the mid-20th century. It is comparable to Hooah in the United States Army, the United States Air Force, and the United States Space Force, or Hooyah in the United States Na ...
* Zone (surname), surname


See also

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AutoZone AutoZone, Inc. is an American retailer of aftermarket automotive parts and accessories, the largest in the United States. Founded in 1979, AutoZone has over 6,400 stores across the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Brazil and the US Virgin Is ...
* Combat Zone (disambiguation) *
In the Zone (disambiguation) ''In the Zone'' is a 2003 album by Britney Spears. In the Zone may also refer to: Music * '' Britney Spears: In the Zone'', a 2004 video album * ''In the Zone'' (Wayman Tisdale album) or the title song, 1996 * "In the Zone" (song), by Ivy Quee ...
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La Zona (disambiguation) La Zona may refer to: * ''The Unnamed Zone ''The Unnamed Zone'' ( es, La Zona) is a 2006 Spanish documentary film by director Carlos Rodríguez about the lives of three young Ukrainian children directly affected by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. ...
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Zon (disambiguation) NOS, SGPS S.A. is a Portuguese telecommunications and media company who provides mobile and fixed telephony, cable television, satellite television and internet. The company resulted from the merger in 2013 of two of the country's major telecom ...
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Region (mathematics) In mathematical analysis, a domain or region is a non-empty connected open set in a topological space, in particular any non-empty connected open subset of the real coordinate space or the complex coordinate space . This is a different concept t ...
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ZoneAlarm ZoneAlarm is an internet security software company that provides consumer antivirus and firewall products. ZoneAlarm was developed by Zone Labs, whose CEOs were Kevin Nickel, Mouad Abid and Shahin and the Company was acquired in March 2004 by Chec ...
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