Zone
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Zone (from Greek "ζώνη" - zōnē, "belt, girdle") may refer to:
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Places
- France
- Free Zone, a division during the German occupation of France during World War II
- Northern Zone, a division during the German occupation of France during World War II
- Occupied Zone, a division during the German occupation of France during World War II
- Southern Zone, a division during the German occupation of France during World War II
- Germany
- The Zone (die Zone in German), a derogatory term for the German Democratic Republic
- Italy
- Zone, Lombardy, a comune in the Province of Brescia
- Korea
- Ukraine
- Zone of alienation, the exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl disaster
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Geography
- Frigid zone, a geographical zone on earth
- Hardiness zone, a geographically-defined zone in which a specific category of plant life is capable of growing
- Temperate zone, a geographical zone on earth
- Torrid zone, a geographical zone on earth
- Zone pricing, a geographical area in which charges are constant
- Zones (permaculture), a method of planning civil/agricultural placement
- Zoning, in urban planning, a system of land-use regulation
- [zong],in Henan of China,a place of micro-face
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Entertainment
- Zone (band), an all-female J-pop group
- Zone (guitar), a Fender bass guitar model
- "Zone" (poem), by Guillaume Apollinaire
- Zone Records, a record label
- Zone.com, alternate name for the MSN Games online video game site
- The Zone, a programming block on the Canadian television channel YTV
- The Zone (Enter Shikari), an album
- The Zone (film), a Swedish short film from the 1970s
- The Zone (TV series), a 2007 interactive game show
- Zones (novel), a 1997 novel by Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes
- In the Zone, Britney Spears' 4th album
- In the Zone (DVD), released in connection with the album
- In the Zone, a play by Eugene O'Neill
- "In the Zone" (The Outer Limits), TV episode
- In the Zone, the third part of Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow
- Zones, level names in early Sonic the Hedgehog games
- The Zone, the fictional area central to the story of the Andrei Tarkovsky movie Stalker
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Sport
- The Zone (Michigan), the University of Michigan women's volleyball cheering section
- Zone defense, in basketball
- Zoning (Australian rules football), a method of allocating players to clubs
- The Zone, a brand of gymnastic leotard
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Technology
- DNS zone, a portion of the namespace in the Domain Name System
- Solaris Zones, one component of the Solaris Containers virtualization feature
- Fibre Channel zoning, a method for facilitating low interference and high security in computer data storage systems
- A thermal zone, or just zone, in heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC)
- Zone, a short name for DVD region code
- One of several terms used for a region in region-based memory management
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Other uses
- Zone (musical composition)
- Zone (vestment), a belt worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church
- Zone diet, a diet that involves precise proportions by weight of protein, fat and carbohydrate
- Zone System, a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development
- Zone Coopérative de l'Université Laval, a university cooperative in the province of Quebec, Canada
- Erogenous zone, an area on the body which is sexually stimulating
- The zone, or flow, a mental state attained by a person fully immersed in some activity
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