hinterland
Beyond the coast
Hinterland is the remote, less-developed area beyond a city or port—the back country that a metropolitan center draws resources from and serves.
The railroad opened up the hinterland to settlement.
The word extends to any peripheral or neglected region: artistic movements emerging from the cultural hinterland.
In plural, hinterlands often suggests isolated rural areas generally.
Complete separation from others
- seclusionVoluntary withdrawal from society
- inaccessibilityState of being unreachable
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- remotenessQuality of being faraway
off-grid · uninhabited · hidden · forgotten · abandoned · backwoods · boondocks · outlands
First to explore territory
- settlersThose who establish homes
- homesteadFamily farm and dwelling
- expansionIncrease in scope
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
colonization · exploration · outpost · trading post · wagon train · Oregon Trail · Lewis and Clark · outback
Not domesticated
- backcountrySparsely populated wilderness areas
- forestTree-dense ecosystem
- jungleDense tropical forest
- taigaSubarctic evergreen biome
wildlife · fauna · flora · ecosystem · biodiversity · pristine · virgin · sanctuary
isolation
Complete separation from others
- seclusionVoluntary withdrawal from society
- inaccessibilityState of being unreachable
- desolationState of complete emptiness
remoteness · off-grid · uninhabited · hidden · forgotten · abandoned · backwoods · boondocks · outlands · sticks
pioneers
First to explore territory
territory · colonization · exploration · outpost · trading post · wagon train · Oregon Trail · Lewis and Clark · outback · bush
untamed
Not domesticated
- backcountrySparsely populated wilderness areas
- forestTree-dense ecosystem
- jungleDense tropical forest
taiga · wildlife · fauna · flora · ecosystem · biodiversity · pristine · virgin · sanctuary · habitat
farmland
Agricultural terrain
- agriculturalOf farming practices
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
- countrysideRural area beyond towns
cropland · farming · harvest · pasture · ranch · villages · provinces · bucolic · rustic · agrarian
scrubland
Area of low shrubs
- savannaTropical grassland, sparse trees
- steppeTreeless Eurasian grassland
- pampasSouth American treeless plains
veld · prairie · badlands · chaparral · tundra · heath · moorland · bushveld · plateau · terrain
- remote townsfishing hamlet, one-horse town, forgotten town, frontier town, boondocks
- regionsregion, regions, area, areas, zone
- frontierfrontier, pioneer, pioneers, settlers, settler
- Frontier LandsWild West, Outback, Alaska, Yukon, wilderness
- German Loanwordsangst, blitzkrieg, doppelganger, gesundheit, kaput
- German Wordsdie, in, an, auf, von
hinterlandmetropolis
Large important city
city · urban center · metropolitan area · city center · downtown