English-Spanish translations for heartland

• corazón
  Como ejemplo práctico, Europa debería alentar y facilitar la construcción de oleoductos y gasoductos desde dichos lugares hasta el corazón de Europa. As a practical example, Europe should encourage and facilitate the construction of oil and gas pipelines from these places to the heartland of Europe.
  Basta con echar un vistazo al mapa para ver claramente que se encuentran en el corazón de la Unión Europea, es decir que están rodeados de Estados miembros. A glance at the map will suffice to see clearly that they are in the heartland of the European Union, by which I mean that they are surrounded by Member States.
  Se dice que en su discurso pidió que Israel fuera borrado del mapa y dijo que «el mundo islámico no permitirá que su enemigo histórico viva en el corazón de su tierra». In his speech he is reported to have called for Israel to be wiped from the map and said ‘the Islamic world will not let its historic enemy live within its heartland’.
• núcleo
  Estamos ante un sistema con dos clases. Para mí es también un modelo de núcleo europeo que verdaderamente no deseo. This is a two-class system, and as far as I am concerned it is also the model of a European heartland which I really do not want!

Definition of heartland

• The central part of a region defined by geographical or non-geographical criteria, such as support for a political party, faith or similar
• The part of a region considered essential to the viability and survival of the whole

Examples

• We stayed in the heartland of the French wine-growing regions
• The home counties are the Conservative heartland

Related words

• heartless
• heartlessly
• heartlessness