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

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

Music

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