trade hub
Busy exchange point
A trade hub is a central location where commercial exchange concentrates—a city, port, or region through which goods flow between producers and markets.
Singapore functions as a trade hub for Southeast Asia; Dubai serves as one for the Middle East.
The term extends to virtual marketplaces: The game's auction house became the server's main trade hub.
- entrepôtTransit storage for trade
- silk roadRoute surfaced with fine fabric
- marketplaceVenue for commerce
- open marketUnrestricted trading environment
- portDocking place for ships
wholesale market · commerce · caravanserai · trading post · financial district · crossroads · trading floor · merchant guilds · merchant quarter · free port · duty free · customs house · cargo ships · distribution center · harbor · containerization · spice route · sea lanes
- tradecustoms, commerce, export, exports, quotas
- marketplacesmarket, mall, bazaar, plaza, shops
- Low CountriesNetherlands, Belgium, Holland, Amsterdam, Brussels
- trade zoneseconomic zone, free zone, freeports, free port, enterprise zone
- hubsurban center, urban core, capital city, national capital, regional capital
- historic placesghost town, old town, ancient city, colonial town, historic district
trade hubremote outpost
Isolated settlement far away
backwater · nowhere · ghost town · hinterland · frontier outpost
trade hubperiphery
Boundary or outer region
frontier outpost · border town · fringe · outer reaches · hinterlands