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In most cases, a company described as "bigger" has a larger sphere of influence. For example, the software company Microsoft has a large sphere of influence in the market of operating systems; any entity wishing to sell a software product may weigh up compatibility with Microsoft's products as part of a marketing plan.
Outer sphere (English-using states of other civilisations) Periphery (states where English is widely used but is not an official governmental language) The Anglosphere , also known as the Anglo-American world , [ 2 ] is the Anglo - American sphere of influence , with a core group of nations that today maintain close political, diplomatic and ...
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The term Sinosphere is derived from Sino-'China' (cf. Sinophone) + -sphere, in the sense of the sphere of influence under the influence of a country. [26] The CJK languages—Chinese, Japanese, Korean—each use cognate terms to translate English sphere: Chinese quān (圈; 'circle', 'ring', 'pen')
America's backyard is a concept often used in political science and international relations contexts to refer to the sphere of influence of the United States and its traditional areas of dominance, especially Latin America. It is somewhat analogous to the Russian concept of near abroad (Russian: ближнее зарубежье, blizhneye ...
One of the indicators of the decreasing influence of Russia in its "near abroad" is the diminishing status of the Russian language (which had, among the languages of the Soviet Union, a preferred status of the "language of interethnic communication" [7] [8]): in many countries there is a sharp decrease in the knowledge of Russian among the ...
Using the title of a settlement can be misleading in the absence of any widely accepted definition. For example, city status in the United Kingdom historically arose from its place in the ecclesiastic hierarchy. (In modern times, city status is awarded for secular reasons but without reference to size.)
Greater India, also known as the Indian cultural sphere, or the Indic world, is an area composed of several countries and regions in South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia that were historically influenced by Indian culture, which itself formed from the various distinct indigenous cultures of South Asia. [4]