industrial region
Factory-heavy territory
An industrial region is a geographic area characterized by concentrated manufacturing, factories, and related economic activity.
Such regions typically develop around access to raw materials, transportation networks, or labor pools: the industrial regions of the American Midwest, China's coastal industrial regions.
The term often implies heavy industry, pollution, and working-class communities.
- manufacturing hubArea concentrated with factories
- labor unionCollective bargaining group
- rust beltDeclining industrial region
- urban sprawlUncontrolled peripheral development
- free trade zoneRegion without import duties
transportation hub · trade network · production capacity · supply chain · logistics center · smokestacks · blue collar · working class · zoning laws · factory town · company town · steel mill · assembly plant · pollution · smoke and mirrors
- Copperbeltcopper mining, copper mines, mining towns, Zambia, copper production
- North Bohemia
- Silesiamining towns
- Lower RhineRhine River, floodplains, dikes, polders, flatlands
industrial regionfarming region
Territory for growing crops
farmland · farming district · rural area · residential district · breadbasket
industrial regionwilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
wilderness area · undeveloped land · countryside · backcountry · hinterland
industrial regionpristine wilderness
Unspoiled natural environment
wildlife sanctuary · nature preserve · nature reserve · protected area · conservation area
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