Zone

Zone or The Zone may refer to:

Climate and altitude zones

 * Death zone (originally the lethal zone), altitudes above a certain point where the amount of oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life for an extended time span
 * Frigid zone, a geographical zone on Earth
 * Hardiness zone, a geographically defined zone in which a specific category of plant life is capable of growing
 * Temperate zone, a geographical zone on Earth
 * Torrid zone, a legendary geographical zone on Earth too hot to cross

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
 * DMZ or DZ or demilitarized zone, an area in which treaties or agreements between nations, military powers, or contending groups forbid military installations, activities, or personnel
 * Green Zone, a military zone in Baghdad, Iraq
 * Korean Demilitarized Zone

Place-names

 * Administrative divisions of India, known as Zones
 * Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, commonly known as "The Zone", a self-declared commune and partially autonomous intentional community in Seattle, Washington
 * Zone (colony) (Ζώνη), an ancient Greek city
 * Zone, Lombardy, a comune in the province of Brescia
 * List of zones of Ethiopia, administrative divisions
 * The Zone (die Zone in German), a derogatory term for the German Democratic Republic
 * Zone Coopérative de l'Université Laval, a university cooperative in Quebec, Canada
 * Zone of alienation, the exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl disaster
 * Zones of Nepal, administrative divisions

Other places

 * Exclusion zone, a geographic area in which certain activities are prohibited
 * International zone, an extraterritorial political zone

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

Films

 * The Zone (2003 film), a Swedish short documentary
 * The Zone (2011 film), an American thriller
 * Transformers: Zone, a 1990 OVA

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

Groups and labels

 * Zone (band), an all-female J-pop group
 * Zones (band), a British punk band
 * Zone Records, a record label

Albums

 * Zone (album), 1996, by Southern Sons
 * 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

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

Television

 * The Zone (Australian TV program), a 1990s Australian video games news and reviews television program
 * The Zone (British game show), a 2007 interactive game show
 * The Zone (New Zealand TV channel), a former TV channel
 * 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)
 * A Nymph unclasping her Zone, a sculpture by Richard Westmacott
 * The Zone, a fictional area in the Andrei Tarkovsky movie Stalker

Computing

 * Zone, a region in region-based memory management
 * DNS zone, a portion of computer network namespace
 * Fibre Channel zoning, a method of network partitioning
 * Solaris Zones, a virtualization feature of the Solaris operating system

Science and technology

 * Zone (convex polytope), in geometry/algorithmic, a kind of convex polytope
 * Brillouin zone, the primitive cell of a lattice in reciprocal space
 * Chronozone, a sequence of rocks deposited within a particular time interval
 * Erogenous zone, an area on the body which may respond sexually to stimulation
 * Spherical zone, the surface area of a spherical segment
 * Thermal zone, or just zone, in heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC)
 * Zone diet, a diet involving precise proportions by weight of protein, fat, and carbohydrate
 * Zone plate, a device used to focus light or other things exhibiting wave character
 * Zone System, a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development

Sports

 * Zone defense, in team sports
 * Zoning (Australian rules football), a method of allocating players to clubs

Other uses

 * 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
 * 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
 * TheZone, summer camp of Oorah
 * Zone (surname), surname