Orbis

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Orbis may 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, a municipality of the 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
  • Orbis Pictus, a 1658 children's book by Czech educator Jan Ámos Komenský
  • 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.