Zone Explained

Zone or The Zone may refer to:

Places

Climate and altitude zones

• Death zone (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 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 legendary geographical zone on Earth too hot to cross

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 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, a military zone in Baghdad, Iraq
• Korean Demilitarized Zone

Place-names

• Administrative divisions of India, known as Zones
• Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, commonly known as "The Zone", a self-declared commune and partially autonomous intentional community in Seattle, Washington
• Zone (colony) (Ζώνη), an ancient Greek city
• Zone, Lombardy, a comune in the province of Brescia
• List of zones of Ethiopia, administrative divisions
• The Zone (die Zone in German), a derogatory term for the German Democratic Republic
• Zone Coopérative de l'Université Laval, a university cooperative in Quebec, Canada
• Zone of alienation, the exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl disaster
• Zones of Nepal, administrative divisions

Other places

• Exclusion zone, a geographic area in which certain activities are prohibited
• International zone, an extraterritorial political zone

Apparel

• Zone (vestment), a belt worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church
• Zone, a girdle 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
• , a 1990 OVA

Games

• Zone (video games), an area within a virtual environment
• Zone.com, alternate name for MSN Games
• Zones, level names in early Sonic the Hedgehog 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
• Zones (novel), 1997, by Damien Broderick and Rorey Barns

Music

Groups and labels

• Zone (band), an all-female J-pop group
• Zones (band), a British punk band
• Zone Records, a record label

Albums

• Zone (Southern Sons album), 1996
• Zone (TVXQ album), 2024
• The Zone (Enter Shikari album), 2007
• The Zone (Paul Rutherford, Torsten Müller, and Harris Eisenstadt album), 2006
• Zones (album), 1983, by Hawkwind
• Zone (EP), 2023, by Jihyo

Songs

• "Zone", a 1976 single by The Rhythm Makers
• "Zone", a 2019 single by Arizona Zervas
• "Zone", a bonus track on the 2017 digital release of the Macintosh Plus album Floral Shoppe
• "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), a British teleshopping and interactive gaming TV channel
• The Zone (YTV), a Canadian television programming block

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• 1280 The Zone, the branding of the American radio station KZNS (AM)
• A Nymph unclasping her Zone, a sculpture by Richard Westmacott
• The Zone, a fictional area in the Andrei Tarkovsky movie Stalker

Computing

• Zone, a region in region-based memory management
• DNS zone, a portion of computer network namespace
• Fibre Channel zoning, a method of network partitioning
• Solaris Zones, a virtualization feature of the Solaris operating system

Science and technology

• Zone (convex polytope), in geometry/algorithmic, a kind of convex polytope
• Brillouin zone, the primitive cell of a lattice in reciprocal space
• Chronozone, a sequence of rocks deposited within a particular time interval
• Erogenous zone, an area on the body which may respond sexually to stimulation
• Spherical zone, the surface area of a spherical segment
• Thermal zone, or just zone, in heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC)
• Zone diet, a diet involving precise proportions by weight of protein, fat, and carbohydrate
• Zone plate, a device used to focus light or other things exhibiting wave character
• Zone System, a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development

Sports

• Zone defense, in team sports
• Zoning (Australian rules football), a method of allocating players to clubs

Other uses

• Zone (guitar), a Fender bass guitar model
• Zone, a short name for DVD region code
• Zones (permaculture), a method of planning civil and agricultural placement
• Da share z0ne, a satirical social media account
• Flow (psychology), or "the zone", a mental state attained by a person fully immersed in some activity
• Time zone
• Zone pricing, based on the location of the buyer
• Zoning, in urban planning, a system of land-use regulation
• TheZone, summer camp of Oorah
• Zone (surname), surname

See also

• AutoZone
• Combat Zone (disambiguation)
• In the Zone (disambiguation)
• La Zona (disambiguation)
• Zon (disambiguation)
• Region (mathematics)
• ZoneAlarm