Growing regions
Profiles of the regions that grow apples. Each says how the apple arrived, how it is grown there, and when it is picked.
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Kashmir
India's apple valley, where the native Ambri is being brought back
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Himachal Pradesh
An American Quaker's 1916 orchard made these hills India's second apple state
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Batu
Eight degrees from the equator, growers strip the leaves by hand and pick twice a year
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Madagascar's highlands
Apples above 1,000 m on a tropical island, planted by Norwegian missionaries in 1870
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The Langkloof
A 160 km valley of apples and pears behind the Tsitsikamma coast
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Western Australia's South West
Where a chance seedling by a water tank became Lady Williams, and then Cripps Pink
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Washington State
Desert valleys east of the Cascades, watered by snowmelt rivers, that grow two-thirds of the US apple crop
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New York State
Home of the Newtown Pippin, and of the Geneva breeders who raised Cortland, Macoun, Empire and Jonagold
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Michigan's Fruit Ridge
A glacial moraine north-west of Grand Rapids, two-thirds of it in Kent County, Michigan's leading apple county
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Shaanxi
China's leading apple province since 2009, its loess orchards grow about one in four of the country's apples
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Shandong
A missionary's "foreign fruit garden" at Chefoo began China's modern apple; Yantai now grows over 7 million tonnes
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Aomori
Its first three Western apple trees were planted in 1875; in 2025 Aomori grew 61% of Japan's apples
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Nagano
When the early Shōwa depression hit silk, Nagano turned to apples; in 2025 it grew 18% of Japan's crop
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South Tyrol
Europe's largest contiguous apple-growing area, in Alpine valleys between 200 and 1,100 m
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Val di Non
An Alpine plateau of orchards that keeps part of its crop 300 m underground, in a dolomite mine
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Normandy
France's cider country: Normandy grew 68% of the nation's cider apples in 2025, for cider, pommeau and calvados
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Herefordshire
Reputed "the Orchard of England" in 1657, Herefordshire still has nearly a quarter of England's commercial orchards
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Kent
Henry VIII's fruiterer planted Teynham about 1533; Kent now has nearly two-fifths of England's commercial orchards
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Grójec
Called "the biggest orchard in Europe", Grójec county had orchards on 69% of its farmland by 2010
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Asturias
Natural cider from 76 local apple varieties, poured from above the head; its culture joined UNESCO's list in 2024
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Hawke's Bay
New Zealand's largest apple region, where Gala was named and Scifresh and Scilate were bred
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Tasmania
The Apple Isle: Bligh planted three apple trees here in 1788; its export trade collapsed in the 1970s
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Elgin and Ceres
The two Western Cape districts that hold more than three quarters of South Africa's apple orchards
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Chile's Central Valley
Six in ten of Chile's apple hectares are in the Maule, where cherries are now taking the orchards' place
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Alto Valle
The irrigated valley that grows 85–90% of the apples eaten in Argentina, two-thirds of its orchards Red Delicious
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Santa Catarina
Brazil's modern apple growing began at Fraiburgo in 1962; in 2025 São Joaquim alone picked 307,200 tonnes
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Almaty
Wild apple forests on the Alatau above the city, where Vavilov placed the cultivated apple's birthplace in 1929
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Isparta and Amasya
Isparta grew 34.95% of Turkey's apples in 2025; at Amasya a Roman-period mosaic shows an apple tree