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Generally, a periphery is a boundary or outer part of any space or body.

Contents 1 In national divisions 2 In social sciences 3 In fiction 4 In other uses

[edit] In national divisions

• Periphery countries includes nations that are not core countries - capitalist or industrialized nations
• Peripheries of Greece, the 13 subnational subdivisions of that country, equivalent to regions
• The suburbs of a town or city

[edit] In social sciences

The center-periphery-model is part of

• political economy in Johann Galtung's "center-periphery-model"
• economic theory as the Core-Periphery_Model
• sociological systems theory of Niklas Luhmann

[edit] In fiction

• Periphery (BattleTech), the region of interstellar space in the fictional universe of BattleTech
• The Periphery, that part of the Empire that lies on the very edge of the Milky Way Galaxy in Issac Asimov's Foundation series
• Periphery (film), a 2008 film

[edit] In other uses

• Peripheral, a device added to a host computer in order to expand its abilities
• Boundary parallel, a property of a mathematical submanifolds
• Periphery (Band), a band from Bethesda, Maryland

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