hinterland
HIN-ter-land
The land behind — the remote, less-developed territory beyond a coast, a city, or a frontier. The hinterland is defined by what it is not: not the center, not the known, not the settled. It is the place that supplies the city but is overlooked by it.
Etymology
German: Hinterland, from hinter (behind) + Land (land). Borrowed into English in the 1890s, originally as a geographical and political term for the territory behind a coastal settlement.
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