title: Ridge (disambiguation)
text: # Ridge (disambiguation)
  
  A ridge is a long, narrow elevation of the land surface.
  
  Ridge may also refer to:
  
  * Ridge in a field, which divides troughs in ridge and furrow agriculture
  * Ridge (roof), an architectural element on roofs
  * Ridge (surname)
  
  ## Places
  
  ### India
  
  * The Ridge, Shimla, open space in Himachal Pradesh, India
  
  ### United Kingdom
  
  * Ridge, Dorset, a village in Dorset, England
  * Ridge, Hertfordshire, a village in Hertfordshire, England
  * Ridge, Wiltshire
  
  ### United States
  
  * Ridge, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
  * Ridge, Maryland
  * Ridge, New York, a location on Long Island
  * Ridge Township, Shelby County, Illinois
  * West Ridge, Chicago, Illinois
  * Ridge (CTA station), former railway station in Chicago
  * Ridge, Robertson County, Texas
  * Ridge, West Virginia
  
  ## Arts, entertainment, and media
  
  ### Characters
  
  * Ridge (comics), a character from Marvel Comics
  * Ridge Forrester, a fictional character in the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
  
  ### Games
  
  * Ridge Racer, an arcade game
  
  ### Television
  
  * Sophy Ridge on Sunday, a Sky News Sunday morning talk show fronted by Sophy Ridge
  
  ## Mathematics
  
  * Ridge (differential geometry), curves of locally maximal curvature on surfaces in 3D
  * Ridge (geometry), an (n-2)-dimensional element of a polytope
  * Ridge regression, a statistical regularization method
  * Ridge function, a multivariate function that decomposes into a projection and a univariate function
  
  ## Science
  
  * Ridge (biology), a domain of the genome with a high gene expression
  * Ridge (meteorology), an elongated region of relatively high atmospheric pressure
  * Ridge detection, an image descriptor for capturing elongated objects that are brighter than their surrounding
  * RIDGE (Radar Integrated Display with Geospatial Elements), in which weather radar images are projected on a map
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Ridge, a term used in dog breeding, meaning a ridge of hair that runs along the back in the opposite direction from the rest of the coat, e.g. on the Thai Ridgeback
  * Ridge Vineyards, a wine producer in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California
  * Ridge Cloud, a cloud provider offering a computing platform for users who want to run workloads with Kubernetes-based architectures in various locations
  