hinterland

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , cognate to 🇨🇬 +. First used in English in 1888 by in his work Handbook of Commercial Geography originally as, but the current spelling (following German) became more popular. The term is characteristic of a thalassocratic analysis of space (from the point of view of a nation, such as 19th-century Britain, with maritime supremacy).

Noun

 * 1) The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.
 * 2) The rural territory surrounding an urban area, especially a port.
 * 3) A remote or undeveloped area, a backwater.
 * 4)  That which is unknown or unexplored about someone.
 * 5)  Anything vague or ill-defined, especially something that is ill understood.
 * 6) * abstract of 2007, Lesley Jeffries, Textual Construction of the Female Body:
 * This approach utilizes concepts such as naming, describing, contrasting and equating to access the hinterland between structure and meaning, and to map out the subtle ways in which texts can naturalise the ideology of the perfect female form.
 * 1) * abstract of 2007, Lesley Jeffries, Textual Construction of the Female Body:
 * This approach utilizes concepts such as naming, describing, contrasting and equating to access the hinterland between structure and meaning, and to map out the subtle ways in which texts can naturalise the ideology of the perfect female form.

Synonyms

 * See: Thesaurus:remote place
 * (the) sticks

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: sisemaa
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ; ;
 * Greek:
 * Irish: cúlchríoch, cúltír
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: задгр́бнина
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: районы вглубь от прибрежной полосы
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: nutśikowny kraj
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: tapusei
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: cefnwlad


 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Estonian: tagamaa
 * Finnish: talousalue, vaikutusalue,
 * French:
 * German: ;
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: предгра́дие
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 偏遠地區,  落後地區
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: ääremaa
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ; plattes Land
 * Macedonian: пусте́лија, задгр́бнина
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) hinterland

Etymology
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Noun

 * , interior

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