# Zone

Zone, Zones or The Zone may refer to:

## Places
### 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
* Korean Demilitarized Zone

### Place names

* Zone (colony) (Ζώνη), an ancient Greek city
* Zone, Lombardy, a comune in the province of Brescia
* Zones of Nepal, any of several administrative divisions
* Administrative divisions of India, known as Zones
* Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone ("The Zone") a June/July 2020 occupation protest site in Seattle, Washington
* List of zones of Ethiopia, any of several administrative divisions
* The Zone (die Zone in German), a derogatory term for the former East Germany
* Zone of alienation ("The Zone"), the exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl disaster site

## 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

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Films

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

### 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), a former Argentina-based forum for international poetry and prose
* Zone (play), a 1953 French language play by Canadian Marcel Dubé
* Zones (novel), 1997, by Damien Broderick and Rorey Barns
* "Zone", a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire

### Music
#### Groups and labels

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

#### Albums

* Zone (Southern Sons album), 1996
* Zone (TVXQ album), 2024
* 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

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

### Television

* The Zone (Australian TV program), a 1990s video games news and reviews show
* The Zone (British game show), a 2007 interactive game show
* The Zone (New Zealand TV channel) (2014–2017)
* 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)
* The Zone, a fictional area in the 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky movie Stalker

## Computing

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

## Science and technology

* Zone (convex polytope), in model checking, a type of difference bound matrix
* Thermal zone, or just zone, in heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC)
* Zone System, a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development

## Other uses

* Zone (surname)
* 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
* Zone defense, in team sports
* 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