• Fourth World, the current world according to the Hopi
  Hopi
  The Hopi are a federally recognized tribe of indigenous Native American people, who primarily live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona. The Hopi area according to the 2000 census has a population of 6,946 people. Their Hopi language is one of the 30 of the Uto-Aztecan language...
  
   belief system and Maya mythology
  Maya mythology
  Mayan mythology is part of Mesoamerican mythology and comprises all of the Mayan tales in which personified forces of nature, deities, and the heroes interacting with these play the main roles...
  
  ; the coming age is the Fifth World
  Fifth World (Native American mythology)
  The Fifth World is the physical world in several Native American beliefs that center around a cyclical understanding of time. According to Maya mythology, the current world we inhabit is the "Fourth World". In these belief systems, time is cyclical, and the end of one world is the beginning of the...
  
  
• Jack Kirby's Fourth World
  Jack Kirby's Fourth World
  "The Fourth World" is the popular name given to a metaseries of interconnecting comic book titles written and drawn by Jack Kirby and published by DC Comics from 1970 to 1973. The characters and concepts were later integrated into the DC Universe....
  
  , a mythologically-oriented group of comic books created by Jack Kirby at DC Comics in the early 1970s
• The Fourth World (album)
  The Fourth World (album)
  The Fourth World is an album released by the Los Angeles band Kara's Flowers. The album contains 11 tracks plus one bonus track on the Japanese edition.The band signed with Reprise Records and released the album on August 19, 1997...
  
  , the debut album of the band Kara's Flowers
• Fourth World, the feudal fantasy land shared by the teenage protagonists of Peter Jackson's film Heavenly Creatures
  Heavenly Creatures
  Heavenly Creatures is a 1994 film directed by Peter Jackson, from a screenplay he co-wrote with his wife Fran Walsh, about the notorious 1954 Parker-Hulme murder case in Christchurch, New Zealand. Filmed on location in Christchurch, it features Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet in their screen debuts...
  
  
• Fourth World, a term used by trumpeter Jon Hassell
  Jon Hassell
  Jon Hassell is an American trumpet player and composer. He is known for his influence in the world music scene and his unusual electronic manipulation of the trumpet sound.-Life and career:...
  
   to describe a style of music employing modern technological treatments and influenced by various cultures and eras. It may also refer to either of two Jon Hassell albums named for the concept:
  • Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics
  • Dream Theory in Malaya : Fourth World Volume Two
• The Fourth World trilogy of novels, also known as the Missing Link trilogy, by Kate Thompson
  Kate Thompson (author)
  Kate Thompson is an award-winning writer for children and adults. Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, she has lived in Ireland, where many of her books are set, since 1981. She is the youngest child of the social historians and peace activists E. P. Thompson and Dorothy Towers...
  
  
• The Fourth World (novel)
  The Fourth World (Novel)
  The Fourth World is a science fiction novel by Dennis Danvers originally published in March, 2000 by HarperCollins Publishers. It takes place in 2013, primarily in the Mexican state of Chiapas, and suggests that, in the future, society has been divided by corporate greed into the upper and lower...
  
   by Dennis Danvers

See also

• World
  World
  World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide, i.e. anywhere on Earth....
  
  
• First World
  First World
  The concept of the First World first originated during the Cold War, where it was used to describe countries that were aligned with the United States. These countries were democratic and capitalistic. After the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the term "First World" took on a...
  
  
• Second World
  Second World
  The term "Second World" is a phrase used to describe those countries which are allied with or are supported by the "First World" countries . These include countries supported by the United States, such as Colombia, Israel, etc., and those supported by the former Soviet Union, also known as the the...
  
  
• Third World
  Third World
  The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either capitalism and NATO , or communism and the Soviet Union...
  
  
• Fifth World (disambiguation)
• Sixth World
  Sixth World
  Mesoamerican creation myths are the collection of creation myths attributed to, or documented for, the various cultures and civilizations of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica....
  
  
• Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation
• Least developed countries
  Least Developed Countries
  Least developed country is the name given to a country which, according to the United Nations, exhibits the lowest indicators of socioeconomic development, with the lowest Human Development Index ratings of all countries in the world...
  
  
• Developing countries