0 the central part of a country or area: --
the old industrial heartlands
the heartland of America
1 the central or most important part of an area: --
The Midwest is the agricultural heartland of the US.
2 an area where a large number of people support a particular political party and vote for it in an election: --
3 an area where a particular industry is very important: --
agricultural/industrial/commercial heartland(s) At the center of India's industrial heartland, the hoped-for flood of jobs has not yet come.
heartland of sth Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia have become Europe's new heartland of carmaking investment.
I mention that area not just because much of it is in my constituency but because it still represents the heartland of our industrial economy.
Doubts are being entertained quite seriously in this old industrial heartland whether the industrial base can survive.
The heartland could operate as a catalyst for providing employment prospects.
Prosperity is concentrated in the rich heartland while the areas on the periphery suffer from severe problems.
In that industrial heartland, still one of our great industrial areas, we have no steel-making capacity.
I wish that we did not have to take decisions about what is, after all, the heartland of someone else's business.
We have privatised not only the state industrial sector, which used to be called the nationalised industries, but the very heartland of the state itself.
They are the men from the industrial heartland of this country.
