Zone

Zone may refer to:

In geography:
* One of five geographical zones of the earth:
** The torrid zone
** The north and south temperate zones
** The north and south frigid zones
* Hardiness zone, in gardening and other agriculture a geographically-defined zone in which a specific category of plant life is capable of growing
* "The zone" ("die (Ost)Zone" in German), a derogatory term for the German Democratic Republic
* Zone (BS), a town and "comune" in the Province of Brescia, Lombardy, Italy
*Zone of alienation, the exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl disaster
* Zones (permaculture), a method of planning civil/agricultural placement
* Zone, in zone pricing, a geographical area in which charges are constant
* Zoning, in urban planning, a system of land-use regulation

In entertainment:
* "In the Zone", Britney Spears' 4th album
** "In the Zone" (DVD), released in connection with the album
* "In the Zone", a play by Eugene O'Neill
* "In the Zone" ("The Outer Limits"), TV episode
*"In the Zone", the third part of Thomas Pynchon's novel "Gravity's Rainbow"
* The Zone, a programming block on the Canadian television channel YTV
* "Zone" (book), a three-act drama by Marcel Dubé
* "Zone" (poem), a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire
* Zones, level names in early Sonic the Hedgehog games
* Zone (band), an all-female J-pop group
* Zone.com, alternate name for the MSN Games online video game site
* "The Zone", the fictional area central to the story of the Andrei Tarkovsky movie "Stalker"
* "The Zone" (Enter Shikari), an album
* "The Zone" (film), a Swedish short film from the 1970s
* Zone (guitar), a Fender bass guitar model
* Zone Records, a record label
* "The Zone" (TV series), a 2007 interactive game show

In sports:
* Zone defense, in basketball
* "The Zone", a brand of gymnastic leotard
* The Zone (Michigan), the University of Michigan women's volleyball cheering section
* Zoning (Australian rules football), a method of allocating players to clubs

In technology:
* DNS zone, a portion of the namespace in the Domain Name System
* Fibre Channel zoning, a method for facilitating low interference and high security in computer data storage systems
* Solaris Zones, one component of the Solaris Containers virtualization feature
* A thermal zone, or just zone, in heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC)
* Zone, a short name for DVD region code

In other uses:
* Erogenous zone, an area on the body which is sexually stimulating
* "The zone", or flow, a mental state attained by a person fully immersed in some activity
* Zone diet, a diet that involves precise proportions by weight of protein, fat and carbohydrate
* Zone system, a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development
* Zone (vestment), a belt worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church