Noun

(wikipedia hinterland) (en noun)

The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.

The rural territory surrounding an urban area, especially a port.

A remote or undeveloped area, a backwater.

(figuratively) That which is unknown or unexplored about someone.

(figuratively) Anything vague or ill-defined, especially one that is ill understood.

* 2007 , Lesley Jeffries, Textual Construction of the Female Body , abstract

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.

Noun

(en noun)

One who lives in the hinterland.

*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 5, author=Jonathan Raban, title=When Loggers Become Bloggers, work=New York Times citation

, passage=The enduring suspicion of some rural hinterlanders is that the Northwest’s precious environment, of mountains, forest, ocean, is merely an urban weekend amenity, to be saved from the local yokels by crusading Seattleites who recoil from the prospect of actually living in it. }}