Definition of rimland
: a region on the edge of the heartland
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America faces diplomatic and security crises along the rimland of the Eurasian supercontinent, from Lebanon and Syria and Yemen and Iran to a recalcitrant Pakistan, a militarized South China Sea, and nuclear brinkmanship in North Korea.
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Rimland said buying Meadowood was a step in that direction.
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First Known Use of rimland
1944
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