the sun belt

Fig. the southern U.S. states, where it is generally warm and sunny. I want to retire to the sun belt. The population of the sun belt is exploding.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Nahid	-	Persian
Dusty	DUS-tee	English
Shakur	-	Arabic
Sylvia	['silviə]
Cosimo	KAW-zee-maw, KO-zi-mo	Italian
Boris	bah-REES (Russian), BO-ris (German), BAWR-is (English)	Bulgarian, Russian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Georgian, German, History