Orbis

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

• Orb (disambiguation)