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Orbis may refer to:
Historical
- The "Orbis Terrarum", a map of the world created by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa in 20 A.D.
- Orbis, Rhineland-Palatinate, a municipality of the Kirchheimbolanden district (Verbandsgemeinde) in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate
- Orbis Pictus, a 1658 children's book by Czech educator Jan Ámos Komenský
Companies
- Orbis Technology, a bookmaker software company now called OpenBet
- Orbis Technologies, an American semantic text analysis firm
- Orbis (Polish travel agency), a Polish travel agency, established in 1920
Publishing
- Orbis Books, a publishing imprint of the Maryknoll order
- Orbis Publishing, a British publisher of partworks and books
- Orbis Pictus Award for outstanding children's nonfiction literature, awarded by the National Council of Teachers of English
Periodicals
- Orbis (journal), a quarterly journal of international affairs published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute
- Vanderbilt Orbis, a progressive student newspaper at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee
Fiction
- Orbis (audio drama), a Doctor Who audio play, starring Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith
- Orbis, an alternative history novel by Scott Mackay
- Orbis Pictus (film), a 1997 Slovak film
- A fictional location in the MMORPG MapleStory
Other uses
- Orbis International, the "Flying Eye Hospital," a charitable organization devoted to treating and preventing blindness
- The Orbis School, near Pune, India
- Orbis, codename for PlayStation 4, video game console developed by Sony
- Orbis, the Latin term for orbit (the eye socket)
See also
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