Synonyms of hinterland

hinterland

noun

ˈhin-tər-ˌland 

as in countryside

a rural region that forms the edge of the settled or developed part of a country

the colonies hugged the coastline, while the hinterland remained largely unexplored

Synonyms & Similar Words

• countryside
• bush
• country
• backwater
• frontier
• up-country
• outback
• backwoods
• outlands
• backcountry
• (the) back of beyond
• backland(s)
• boondocks
• boonies
• sticks

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hinterland

Together, all of those developments deepened class and regional inequalities, as capital flowed away from workers in the industrial hinterland toward financial centers like New York. — Literary Hub, 15 May 2026

That all comes filtered through the eyes of two creative women, sculptor Yoriko (Takako Matsu) and her latest model Yuri (Shizuka Ishibashi), an architect from Tokyo, who reconnect at Yoriko’s place in the Japanese hinterlands. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026

This is where Asia features, with its vast land and maritime hinterland serving as a huge market and a source of fossil fuel demand, security partnerships (an example of this is discussions underway with India), technology, and people. — Vasuki Shastry, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026

Moreover, as soon as Christianity began to spread outside his native land, Christian converts faced new situations in unexpected contexts, completely different from those of their founder, an itinerant Jewish preacher in the sparsely populated hinterlands of rural Galilee. — Big Think, 26 Mar. 2026

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