Zone Explained

Zone, Zones or The Zone may refer to:

Places

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
• Korean Demilitarized Zone

Place names

• Zone (colony) (Ζώνη), an ancient Greek city
• Zone, Lombardy, a comune in the province of Brescia
• Zones of Nepal, any of several administrative divisions
• Administrative divisions of India, known as Zones
• Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone ("The Zone") a June/July 2020 occupation protest site in Seattle, Washington
• List of zones of Ethiopia, any of several administrative divisions
• The Zone (die Zone in German), a derogatory term for the former East Germany
• Zone of alienation ("The Zone"), the exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl disaster site

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 original video animation

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), a former Argentina-based forum for international poetry and prose
• Zone (play), a 1953 French language play by Canadian Marcel Dubé
• Zones (novel), 1997, by Damien Broderick and Rorey Barns
• "Zone", a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire

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

• "The Zone" (song), 2011, by The Weeknd
• "Zone", a 1976 single by The Rhythm Makers
• "Zone", a 2019 single by Arizona Zervas
• "Zone", a bonus track on the 2017 album Floral Shoppe by Macintosh Plus

Television

• The Zone (Australian TV program), a 1990s video games news and reviews show
• The Zone (British game show), a 2007 interactive game show
• The Zone (New Zealand TV channel) (2014–2017)
• 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)
• The Zone, a fictional area in the 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky movie Stalker

Computing

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

Science and technology

• Zone (convex polytope), in model checking, a type of difference bound matrix
• Thermal zone, or just zone, in heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC)
• Zone System, a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development

Other uses

• Zone (surname)
• 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
• Zone defense, in team sports
• 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

See also

• • • Zoning (disambiguation)
• AutoZone
• TheZone, summer camp of Oorah
• Combat Zone (disambiguation)
• In the Zone (disambiguation)
• La Zona (disambiguation)
• Zon (disambiguation)
• Region (mathematics)
• ZoneAlarm