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
Keren-Happuch	KER-ən HAP-ook (English)	Biblical
Ebrahim	-	Persian, Arabic
Sandhya	-	Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam
Perrine	pe-REEN	French
Agate	['eigət]
Ippolit	-	Russian