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For other meanings of this term, see Heartland.

Heartland is a geopolitical term, created by Sir Halford Mackinder in his address, The Geographical Pivot of History, to the Royal Geographic Society. It refers to the continuous landmass of Eurasia measuring more than 21 million square miles (54 million km²). This landmass contains no waterways to the ocean and is contained by the Arctic ice cap and drainage to the north, the monsoon lands along the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, the Near East or land of the Five Seas, and Europe. This landmass is remote and inaccessible to its periphery. Mackinder argued in his address that this was the strategic region of the foremost importance in the World. Image File history File links Merge-arrow. ... For other uses, see Eurasia (disambiguation). ... Image File history File links Merge-arrow. ... Heartland is a most often a geopolitical term, often used to refer to a central area of Eurasia that is remote and inaccessible from the periphery. ... Heartland is a most often a geopolitical term, often used to refer to a central area of Eurasia that is remote and inaccessible from the periphery. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Geopolitics analyses politics, history and social science with reference to geography. ... Categories: People stubs | 1861 births | 1947 deaths | British MPs | English geographers | Geopoliticians ... The Geographical Pivot of History was an article submitted by Halford John Mackinder in 1902 to the Royal Geographical Society that advanced his Heartland Theory. ... The Royal Geographical Society with the associated Institute of British Geographers is a learned society of geography and geographers. ... For other uses, see Eurasia (disambiguation). ... The red line indicates the 10°C isotherm in July, commonly used to define the Arctic region border Satellite image of the Arctic surface The Arctic is the region around the Earths North Pole, opposite the Antarctic region around the South Pole. ... The Near East is a term commonly used by archaeologists, geographers and historians, less commonly by journalists and commentators, to refer to the region encompassing Anatolia (the Asian portion of modern Turkey), the Levant (modern Israel/Palestine, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon), Georgia, Armenia, and... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... Generally, a periphery is a boundary or outer part of any space or body. ...

The term heartland was later redefined by David J. M. Hooson as the most vital and inner part of a functioning state. He claimed the area between Middle Volga and Lake Baykal was the Soviet heartland due to the overabundance of natural resources, and boom in population. For other uses, see State (disambiguation). ... For other meanings of the word Volga see Volga (disambiguation) Волга Length 3,690 km Elevation of the source 225 m Average discharge  ? m³/s Area watershed 1. ... Lake Baikal The Yenisei River basin, Lake Baikal, and the cities of Dikson, Dudinka, Turukhansk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk Lake Baikal (Russian: О́зеро Байка́л (Ozero Baykal)), a lake in southern Siberia, Russia, between Irkutsk Oblast on the northwest and Buryatia on... Soviet redirects here. ...

The term heartland is also used as a synonym for the Midwest in the U.S., or central part of any country with economic, geopolitical or cultural significance. The Midwest is a common name for a region of the United States of America. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... Economics (deriving from the Greek words οίκω [okos], house, and νέμω [nemo], rules hence household management) is the social science that studies the allocation of scarce resources to satisfy unlimited wants. ... The word culture, from the Latin colo, -ere, with its root meaning to cultivate, generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ...

References

• Mackinder, H. J. “The Geographical Pivot of History”. The Geographical Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4. (Apr., 1904), pp. 421-437
• Hooson, David J. M. “A New Soviet Heartland?”. The Geographical Journal, Vol. 128, No.1. (Mar., 1962), pp.19-29
• Ó Tuathail, Gearóid. Critical geopolitics : the politics of writing global space. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.