Other forms: hinterlands
A hinterland is the remote country lying behind a coast or a city. The rural hinterland, serve its hinterland, deep in the hinterland.
In its exact sense it is the area a port draws its trade from, which is what the geographers meant by it. Figuratively a person's hinterland is the interests and reading they have behind the job.
1nounhinterlandThe remote country lying behind a coast or a city.
“The port lived on the grain of a hinterland stretching two hundred miles.”
hinterland is a region.
German Hinterland is hinter, behind, plus Land; it entered English in 1888 through the geographer George Chisholm.
German
Hinterland
English, today
hinterland
Borrowed from German Hinterland, from hinter + Land, cognate to English hinder (“back, rear”) + land. First used in English in 1888 by George Chisholm in his work Handbook of Commercial Geography originally as hinderland, but the current spelling (following German) became more popular. The term is characteristic of a thalassocratic analysis of space (from the point of view of a nation with maritime supremacy, such as 19th-century Britain).
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