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Orbis may refer to:


Companies

* Orbis Business Intelligence, a British private intelligence firm * Orbis Technology, a British bookmaker software company now called OpenBet * Orbis (Polish travel agency), a Polish travel agency, established in 1920


Entertainment

* ''Orbis'' (audio drama), a Doctor Who audio play * Orbis Pictus (film), ''Orbis Pictus'' (film), a 1997 Slovak film


Historical

* The "Orbis Terrarum", a map of the world created by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa in 20 A.D. * Orbis, Rhineland-Palatinate, a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * ''Orbis Pictus'', a 1658 children's book by Czech educator Jan Ámos Komenský


Publishing

* Orbis Books, a U.S. publishing imprint of the Maryknoll order * Orbis Publishing, a British publisher of partworks and books * Orbis Pictus Award, awarded by the National Council of Teachers of English for outstanding children's nonfiction literature * ''Orbis'', a 2002 alternative history novel by Scott Mackay


Periodicals

* Orbis (journal), ''Orbis'' (journal), a quarterly journal of international affairs published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute * ''Orbis Litterarum'', a bimonthly literary journal published by Wiley-Blackwell * ''Vanderbilt Orbis'', a progressive student newspaper at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee


Other uses

* Orbis Cascade Alliance, an academic library consortia in the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho * Orbis International (the "Flying Eye Hospital"), a charitable organization devoted to treating and preventing blindness * a development kit for PlayStation 4 ** Orbis OS, the proprietary operating system used by PlayStation 4 * Orbiting Binary Black Hole Investigation Satellite (ORBIS), a space telescope in development by Japan * ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World, an interactive site co-developed by Walter Scheidel#ORBIS, Walter Scheidel * a company database provided by Bureau van Dijk#Orbis, Bureau van Dijk


See also

* * Orb (disambiguation) * Orbiso, a village in Montaña Alavesa, Spain * Orbit (disambiguation) {{disambiguation