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'''Orbis''', the [[Latin]] word for "circle", "ring", "sphere" or anything round or rotating, may also refer to:
* [[Orbis Hotels]], an international hotel and travel agency chain based in Poland
* [[ORBIS International]], the "Flying Eye Hospital," a charitable organization devoted to treating and preventing blindness
* [[Orbis, Rhineland-Palatinate|Orbis]], a municipality of the [[Kirchheimbolanden (administrative unit)|Kirchheimbolanden]] district (Verbandsgemeinde) in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate
* A fictional location in the MMORPG [[MapleStory]].
*[[Orbis Books]], a publishing imprint of the Maryknoll order.
* ''Orbis'', an alternative history novel by [[Scott Mackay]].
*[[Vanderbilt Orbis]], a progressive student newspaper at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee
* ''[[Orbis Pictus]]'', a 1658 children's book by Czech educator Jan Ámos Komenský.
** The Orbis Pictus Nonfiction Award for outstanding children's nonfiction literature, awarded by the [[National Council of Teachers of English]].
*[[Orbis Publishing]] Ltd., a [[United Kingdom|British]] publisher of [[partwork]]s and [[book]]s.
* ''Orbis'', an international affairs journal published by the [[Foreign Policy Research Institute]].
* ''Orbis'', an international linguistics journal published by the International Centre of General Dialectology in Belgium.
* ''[[Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius]]'', a short story by Argentian writer Jorge Luis Borges published in 1940.
* The "Orbis Terrarum", a map of the world created by [[Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa]] in 20 A.D.
* [[Orbis Software]] A UK based software house which develops the product Orbis TaskCentre.
* [[Orbis Technology]] A UK-based gambling back office provider.
* [[Orbis World Globes]] A US-based design company producing photorealistic world globes featuring NASA satellite imagery.
==See also==
* [[Orb]]
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