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[[File:Battle Zone DP Map.png|thumb|250px|Artwork of the Battle Zone from {{2v2|Diamond|Pearl}}]]
[[File:Battle Zone Pt Map.png|thumb|200px|Artwork of the Battle Zone from {{v2|Platinum}}]]
The '''Battle Zone''' (Japanese: '''バトルゾーン''' ''Battle Zone'') is a sub-region of [[Sinnoh]] located on a separate landmass northeast of the mainland.

Three settlements are located in the Battle Zone: the [[Fight Area]], which holds the entrance to the {{si|Battle Tower}} in {{game|Diamond and Pearl|s}} and the {{gdis|Battle Frontier|IV}} in {{game|Platinum}}; the [[Resort Area]], where one can find the [[Ribbon Syndicate]]; and finally the [[Survival Area]], home in Platinum to the [[Battleground]] and a [[Move Tutor]]'s home. Six of Sinnoh's 30 [[route]]s, numbered {{rtn|225|Sinnoh}}-{{rtn|230|Sinnoh}}, are on the island, with both {{rt|226|Sinnoh}} and {{rt|230|Sinnoh}} being [[water route]]s.

Despite being closer to [[Veilstone City]], the easiest possible route to the Battle Zone is through [[Snowpoint City]] by boat. Because of this, the Battle Zone maintains an open shipping route between Snowpoint City and the Fight Area in transporting cargo and necessary supplies to and from the mainland.

The geography of the Battle Zone is [[Pokémon world in relation to the real world|based loosely on]] the geography of the southern part of {{wp|Sakhalin}}, a {{wp|Russia}}n territory that was previously controlled by Japan.

==Geography==
[[File:Sinnoh Battle Zone Map.png|thumb|left|100px|In-game map of the Battle Zone]]
The Battle Zone is dedicated to [[Pokémon battle|Pokémon battling]]; many of the Battle Zone's facilities such as the {{si|Battle Park}}, {{Gdis|Battle Frontier|IV}}, and [[Battleground]] offer [[Pokémon Trainer]]s a place to demonstrate their skills, while the island's rugged geography and powerful [[wild Pokémon]] provides a physical challenge for Trainers training their Pokémon. Although the Battle Zone has no [[Pokémon League]], the {{DL|Elite Four|Sinnoh Elite Four}} come here often to train and rehabilitate their Pokémon. During its early days, the island, which was renowned for its dense forests, treacherous cliffs, steep mountain paths, and raging sandstorms, only attracted the strongest Trainers, who were considered eccentric for gathering at such a harsh landscape. Eventually, the Trainers settled and small communities such as the Fight Area and the Survival Area developed.

There are three settlements located in the Battle Zone: the [[Fight Area]], [[Survival Area]], and [[Resort Area]]. Each area is tailored to fit a certain function. The Fight Area is devoted to competitive battling, hosting the {{si|Battle Tower}}, and later, the {{Gdis|Battle Frontier|IV}}, where Trainers gather from all around to the {{pkmn|world}} to exhibit their skills. The Survival Area, which is based at the foot of the rugged mountain range in the north-most part of the sub-region, and is surrounded by thick jungle and steep cliffs, dedicates itself to Pokémon training and preparation; while the Resort Area is centered around {{pkmn|Coordinator}}s and [[Pokémon Super Contest|Contests]], allowing Trainers and their Pokémon a chance to respite.

To the very north of the Battle Zone, there is a mountain range, [[Stark Mountain]], which consists of an active volcano. Due to the dry environments of Stark Mountain and the surrounding mountainous areas, the Battle Zone is subject to warmer climates. A constant sandstorm rages on {{rt|228|Sinnoh}} due to the flow of wind down though the mountains. Some of the southern areas of the Battle Zone are very tropical and contain dense jungles.
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===Settlements===
There are three settlements situated in the Battle Zone: the [[Fight Area]], [[Survival Area]], and [[Resort Area]]. For all intents and purposes, the three settlements act as towns, however, they appear to be more of a tourist destination and are not considered cities or towns.

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! style="background: #{{sinnoh color}}" | Settlement
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| [[File:Fight Area Pt.png|100px]]
| [[Fight Area]]
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| A tiny port city where Trainers who love battling more than eating gather. The gateway to the <br>{{gdis|Battle Frontier|IV}} is located here. Moored at the pier is the ferry to Snowpoint City. 
|- style="background: #fff"
| [[File:Survival Area Pt.png|100px]]
| [[Survival Area]]
| 20
| A town where hot-blooded Trainers gather to work out and hone their battling skills.
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| [[File:Resort Area Pt.png|100px]]
| [[Resort Area]]
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| A town that attracts Trainers who know there are other ways of enjoying Pokémon than battling.
|}

===Landmarks===
{{main|Stark Mountain}}
The northmost point of the Battle Zone houses [[Stark Mountain]], a mountain range which consists of an active volcano. Many Trainers that travel from Sinnoh's mainland consider the journey up to Stark Mountain to be the most daunting and grueling test of their skill. The volcano rains ash down upon some parts of the Battle Zone. Outside the cavern, is a rugged, seemingly indestructible rock mountain that is thickly blanketed by the volcanic ash it spews. While, inside the mountain, fissures in spilled and hardened lava form enormous caverns. Due to the dry environments of the Stark Mountain and surrounding mountainous areas, the Battle Zone is subject to warmer climates. Only the deepest part of the volcano houses the [[Legendary Pokémon]] {{p|Heatran}}.

===Routes===
Six of Sinnoh's 30 [[route]]s, numbered {{rtn|225|Sinnoh}}-{{rtn|230|Sinnoh}}, are on the island, with both {{rt|226|Sinnoh}} and {{rt|230|Sinnoh}} being [[water route]]s. Each route that connect the areas of the Battle Zone has a uniquely, distinct terrain type which makes traversing the route a physical challenge. Protruding outcrops, windy cliff paths, rugged mountain trails, harsh deserts, rocky waters, and thick jungle-like terrains comprise the routes of the Battle Zone, which trial Trainers and creates an environment inhabited by a diversity of Pokémon.

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| The path makes its way up and down among rocky outcroppings. It is physically challenging.
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| {{rt|226|Sinnoh}}
| A path that winds precariously along sheer cliffs that go right to the edge of the sea's pounding waves.<br>There is a small island in the bay. An odd man who speaks foreign languages lives there.
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| [[File:Sinnoh Route 227 Pt.png|50px]]
| {{rt|227|Sinnoh}}
| A rugged and steep mountain path where vision is limited by steadily falling volcanic ash.
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| [[File:Sinnoh Route 228 Pt.png|50px]]
| {{rt|228|Sinnoh}}
| This rough path is harshly raked by a horizontally blowing sandstorm driven by strong winds off the sea.
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| [[File:Sinnoh Route 229 Pt.png|100px]]
| {{rt|229|Sinnoh}}
| A seaside path that makes its way through wildly growing trees and plants.
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| [[File:Sinnoh Route 230 Pt.png|100px]]
| {{rt|230|Sinnoh}}
| A sea route that stretches from west to east. There is an island that is rich with plant life along the way.
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===Relationship to Sinnoh===
Official sources are inconsistent as to whether the Battle Zone is part of the Sinnoh region.

A {{tc|Battle Girl}} in the [[Fight Area]] implies that Sinnoh is separate from the Battle Zone. In {{game2|Diamond|Pearl|Platinum}}, she says "''Your Pokémon are from Sinnoh, aren't they? They're not what we're used to seeing around here.''" In {{g|Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl}}, she instead says "''Your Pokémon are from Sinnoh, aren't they? We're used to seeing some of those kinds around here.''" (Despite this change in the English localization, the Japanese text remains unchanged, and its meaning is closer to the Generation IV English text.)

In Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, Brilliant Diamond, and Shining Pearl, a {{tc|Ruin Maniac}} in a house in the [[Resort Area]] comments that the weather and terrain of the Battle Zone are much harsher than in Sinnoh, implying that it is separate to Sinnoh.<ref>Pokémon Diamond and Pearl: "''The weather and the terrain here are much more extreme than Sinnoh. I imagine there would be a large variety of Pokémon here.''" - Explorer (Resort Area)</ref><ref>Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl: "''The weather and the terrain here are much more extreme than what you'll find in Sinnoh. I imagine there would be a large variety of Pokémon here.''" - Explorer (Resort Area)</ref>

In the Western localizations of {{game|Platinum}}, a {{tc|Rich Boy}} in the Fight Area's {{rt|225|Sinnoh}} [[gate]] comments "''Are you stocked up on Poké Balls? In the tall grass past here, you'll find interesting Pokémon. Like, Pokémon you never see anywhere else in Sinnoh!''", implying that the Battle Zone is part of the Sinnoh region. Conversely, in the Japanese and Korean versions, he instead says that the Pokémon in the tall grass cannot be found in the Sinnoh region, implying that the Battle Zone is separate from the Sinnoh region.

In [[Pokémon Black and White Versions 2|Pokémon Black 2 and White 2]], a {{tc|Hiker}} in the [[Lentimas Town]] [[Pokémon Center]] mentions that [[Stark Mountain]] (a location in the Battle Zone) is in the Sinnoh region.<ref>Pokémon Black 2 and White 2: "''The volcano here is the same kind of volcano as Stark Mountain in the Sinnoh region.''" - Hiker (Lentimas Town Pokémon Center)</ref>

On the official Japanese Pokémon site, on a page describing the extra features of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, the Battle Zone is described as being in the northeast of the Sinnoh region.<ref>[https://www.pokemon.co.jp/game/ds/dp/entertainment.html Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (extra features) | pokemon.co.jp]: 殿堂入り後、ライバルに誘われてたどり着くのが、シンオウ地方の北東にあるバトルゾーン。 (''After entering the Hall of Fame, following an invitation from your rival, you arrive in the Battle Zone in the northeast of Sinnoh'')</ref>

In the ''[[Pokémon Journeys: The Series]]'' episode ''[[JN024|A Little Rocket R & R!]]'', [[Professor Cerise]] tells Ash that they are in "the Sinnoh region's Resort Area", the [[Resort Area]] being a location in the Battle Zone.<ref>"''This is the Sinnoh region's Resort Area.''" - [[Professor Cerise]] (''[[JN024|A Little Rocket R & R!]]'')</ref>

==In the anime==
[[File:Resort Area anime.png|thumb|250px|Resort Area in the {{pkmn|anime}}]]
===Main series===
The Battle Zone appeared in ''[[JN024|A Little Rocket R & R!]]'', where {{Ash}}, [[Goh]], and {{TRT}} visited the [[Resort Area]]. Ash and Goh were looking into the reports of a mysterious Pokémon living there (later revealed to be a {{pkmn2|giant}} {{p|Magikarp}}), while Team Rocket was sent there by [[Matori]] for a break. However, the real reason for Team Rocket's break was to get them out of Matori's way while she executed a Pokémon-stealing operation, which also took place at the Resort Area. When this was discovered, the operation was thwarted by an alliance between Ash, Goh, and the [[List of Team Rocket's disguises|disguised]] Team Rocket.

===Pokémon Generations===
The Battle Zone appeared in ''[[PG12|The Magma Stone]]'', where [[Buck]] and [[Looker]] stopped [[Charon]]'s plan to unleash {{p|Heatran}} to wreack destruction upon the [[Sinnoh]] [[region]] at [[Stark Mountain]].
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==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
[[File:Battle Zone Adventures.png|thumb|230px|The Battle Zone in [[Pokémon Adventures]]]]
[[File:Fight Area DPA.png|thumb|230px|The Battle Zone in [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!]]]]
===={{chap|Diamond & Pearl}}====
The Battle Zone first appeared in ''[[PS416|Double Trouble with Dialga and Palkia VI]]'', when [[Volkner]] invited {{EF|Flint}} to help him investigate a giant hole that appeared over the [[Sendoff Spring]].

===={{chap|Platinum}}====
Throughout this arc, {{adv|Platinum}} challenged the {{gdis|Battle Frontier|IV}} at the Battle Zone. Meanwhile, {{adv|Looker}}, the [[Frontier Brain]]s, and the [[Stat Trainers]] conducted research on the [[Distortion World]] and {{p|Giratina}}. When [[Buck]] went to Stark Mountain to protect {{p|Heatran}} from [[Team Galactic]], he unwittingly allowed [[Charon]] to {{pkmn2|caught|catch}} the Lava Dome Pokémon.

===Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!===
The Battle Zone first appeared in ''[[DPA28|Look for Giratina!]]''. Following the attack on the {{si|Pokémon League}} tournament, [[Hareta]] and [[Mitsumi]] headed to the Fight Area on a boat. Upon arrival in the Fight Area, Hareta met a man with a {{p|Dragonite}}, who revealed himself to be [[Palmer]], {{OBP|Jun|DPA}}'s father. Hareta and Mitsumi then headed to Stark Mountain to search of Team Galactic. Eventually, they ended up finding Charon, who had raided Stark Mountain, disturbing the [[Magma Stone]] and awakening Heatran, leaving Hareta to battle it.
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==In other languages==
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|zh_cmn=對戰特區 / 对战特区 ''{{tt|Duìzhàn Tèqū|Battle Special Zone}}'' {{tt|*|Games, Adventures (PS416 onwards)}}<br>對戰區域 ''{{tt|Duìzhàn Qūyù|Battle Zone}}'' {{tt|*|Adventures Volume 35 (Ching Win Publishing)}}<br>對戰區 / 对战区 ''{{tt|Duìzhàn Qū|Battle Area}}'' {{tt|*|DPA, Adventures Volume 35 (Jilin Publishing)}}
|zh_yue=對戰特區 ''{{tt|Deuijin Dahkkēui|Battle Special Zone}}''
|fr_eu=Secteur Combat
|de=Duellzone
|it=Zona Lotta
|es_eu=Bahía Gresca
|ko=배틀존 ''Battle Zone''
|vi=Khu vực Giao đấu
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==References==
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[[Category:Sinnoh locations]]
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[[Category:Platinum locations]]
[[Category:Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl locations]]
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