The fictional land in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth where the hobbits live is the Shire.
The Shire is a peaceful, largely rural region in northwest Middle-earth, within the wider land of Eriador. Its villages include Hobbiton, Bywater, Michel Delving, and Tuckborough. Bilbo and Frodo Baggins live at Bag End, a famous hobbit-hole overlooking Hobbiton.
Tolkien designed the Shire to feel recognisably English, with village greens, inns, hedgerows, farming communities, family names, and a strong attachment to food and comfortable domestic life. This ordinary, sheltered setting makes the later dangers of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings especially striking.
The Shire is not the only place where hobbits live: some also inhabit Bree and Buckland, while earlier hobbit communities existed farther east. It is, however, their principal homeland and the story’s emotional starting point. After the War of the Ring, King Elessar grants the Shire the Westmarch, expanding its borders.