Hinterland Meaning

noun

• 1The often uncharted areas beyond a coastal district or a river's banks.

  ‘early settlers were driven from the coastal areas into the hinterland’

  • ‘Living standards have kept improving, but the gap in development is widening between the hinterland and coastal areas.’
  • ‘Tullow Stage School has now 130 students hailing from the Tullow area and its hinterland, ranging in ages from 3 to 16 years.’
  • ‘There were shipments of ore, food and arms to be delivered to the site of conflict from the Red Flight's hinterlands.’
  • ‘In the Wild Westlike Russian hinterlands, hustling like this is part of the survival game.’
  • ‘These guided tours of the state's hinterlands consisted of a ten-day bus excursion from Salt Lake City into some areas that are now national parks and monuments.’
  • ‘And Newcastle, Castlewellan, Dundrum and Kilkeel, with their surrounding hinterlands, would all have been ceded to the Republic.’
  • ‘And it took the magnetic pull of the common people and the great Indian hinterlands to draw him back to filmmaking.’
  • ‘This was helpful in verifying the movement of people in taxis through the desolate Iraqi hinterlands.’
  • ‘Southeast Queensland is justly prized for its superb beaches, rivers and lush hinterland.’
  • ‘These claims reached a crescendo in 1926 when he accused a police patrol of mass killing in the hinterland of the Forrest River reserve.’
  • ‘The northern extension of the active rain area may approach no further northward than the northern hinterland of the Cape west coast.’
  • ‘He made a weekly trip up into the mountains in the Gold Coast hinterland to fill up plastic containers with creek water.’
  • ‘Britain's domination of the coast opened up the hinterland to Western imperialism.’
  • ‘The Li Basin was fed by rivers that drained the adjacent hinterland of basement rocks.’
  • ‘On a hike into the flat hinterland, you'll see plenty of bird life, 40 species of orchid, wild boars (introduced from Europe) and the endemic Andros Island iguana.’

  the back of beyond, the middle of nowhere, the backwoods, the wilds, the bush, remote areas, a backwater

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  1. 1.1An area surrounding a town or port and served by it.
     ‘the city had grown prosperous by exploiting its local western hinterland’
     • ‘The majority of services operate at least one day per week and travel from the rural hinterland into the local village or town.’
     • ‘One cannot get this impression so palpably in the rural hinterland and the towns closer to such areas.’
     • ‘Small market towns serviced the rural hinterland with a range of commercial and administrative services.’
     • ‘He pointed out that Knockmore was in the hinterland of a big town but there was no public transport.’
     • ‘The victory of the salwar is most conspicuous not in big cities like Bangalore, but in the smaller towns of the hinterland.’
     • ‘Many of the articles examine the continuous conflict over water between sprawling metropolitan areas and rural hinterlands.’
     • ‘And there are some examples of urban areas taking in large hinterlands which has worked.’
     • ‘Historical sources indicate that while they controlled their own hinterlands, the numerous kingdoms often came under varying degrees of external rule.’
     • ‘There was often a correlation between churchgoing habits in urban areas and their rural hinterland.’
     • ‘He had not recommended the rescue of insolvent banks in the hinterlands that did not threaten the money market.’
     • ‘These cities grew in tandem with the commercial expansion of their hinterlands.’
     • ‘There's about 1,200 of a population in Abbeyleix and its hinterlands.’
     • ‘With Ballyfin drawing pupils from Portlaoise, Mountrath and Mountmellick and their hinterlands there is a huge dilemma facing people.’
     • ‘Yet these places, bereft of services we regard as normal, are clearly a step up from the deeper poverty of their rural hinterlands.’
     • ‘As towns such as Naas and Newbridge continue to grow at a rapid pace, their economic hinterlands are getting larger.’
     • ‘These towns are located within the CLAR Region and service extensive rural hinterlands.’
     • ‘Competition is pushing more and more media companies into India's hinterland, beyond the metro cities.’
     • ‘These cities were ‘gateway primates’, linked to their rural hinterlands by rail networks of idiosyncratic colonial gauges and to their imperial centre by sea transport.’
     • ‘The various colonial forces that fought for the trading commodities from Kochi and its hinterlands took over the Church at various points of time.’
     • ‘Even more amazing is the figure for the Portlaoise hinterland which has under-gone a massive 41% rise in the number of people living there.’

• 2An area lying beyond what is visible or known.

  ‘in the hinterland of his mind these things rose, dark and ominous’

  • ‘I thought it occupied a strange hinterland where it was possibly a bit too gruesome for kids, but a bit too cartoony for adults.’
  • ‘The Go-Betweens reside in a strange hinterland full of candyfloss and loneliness that hovers between critical adoration and public ignorance.’
  • ‘Methinks this begins the hinterland of MacKay's political career, and how well-deserved it is.’
  • ‘For many years, Africa, especially the hinterland, remained unknown, unexplored and unexploited.’
  • ‘It comes as no surprise that prioritization of specific lines of tradition, of particular hinterlands of theory building and reception, varies from entry to entry.’
  • ‘His talent lies in navigating thornier moralistic hinterlands.’
  • ‘Kansas City was the American League's hinterlands, and the Mets were the National League's laughing stock.’
  • ‘And in the far right hinterlands of football hooliganism, a series of appalling attacks is being readied.’
  • ‘Everyone into the remotest hinterland of consanguinity has been married.’
  • ‘The youngster made a competent fist of it until Arsenal's second, but his team's problems lay in the hinterland behind him.’

Hinterland is a German word meaning 'the land behind' (a city, a port, or similar). The term's use in English was first documented by geographer George Chisholm in his Handbook of Commercial Geography (1888).

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Origin

Late 19th century from German, from hinter ‘behind’ + Land ‘land’.