C: How can I create a 2d array that hold 2d arrays?

Question

for example I have generated a "zone" of 1s and 0s in a 2x2 2d array . But i need to store 9 of these zones to access whenever from another 3x3 2d array "map". The zone arrays are randomly generated and need to stay the same once added to the 2d map array, so that I could "leave" a zone and come back and itd be the same. Kinda like an ASCII game

such that

int zone[2][2];
// fill zone array
int map[3][3];
map[0][0] = zone;

Answer 1

You can create a multi-dimensional 9x2x2 array where each 2x2 zone is accessed by their zone index (0-8).

int zone[9][2][2];

// I can now access any of the nine 2x2 zones using indices 0-8
zone[0][0][0]
zone[1][0][0]
zone[2][0][0]
...
zone[8][0][0]