A vocabulary of landscape — a landscape of words
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hinterland
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.
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.