Noun:

கடற்கரைக்குப் பின் புறம் உள்ள நிலப் பகுதி,

hinterland's Usage Examples:

" The capital, " says a writer in the Konstantinopler Handelsblatt of November 1904, " produces very little for export, and its hinterland is small, extending on the European side only a few kilometres - the outlet for the fertile Eastern Rumelia is Dedeagach - and on the Asiatic side embracing the Sea of Marmora and the Anatolian railway district.

Those wishing to explore the hinterland would do best to stay in the NW.

"In1874-1875the ambition of Ismail Pasha, khedive of Egypt, who claimed jurisdiction over the whole coast as far as Cape Guardafui, led him to occupy the ports of Tajura, Berbera and Bulhar as well as Harrar in the hinterland.

Ross Galloway then made a welcome return from the vast lawless hinterlands of East Lothian.

The last-named region has to a great extent had a separate history; and it was only in 1894 that the Mosquito Reserve, a central enclave which includes more than half of the littoral and hinterland, was incorporated in the republic and renamed the department of Zelaya.

The oil-palm and kola-nut tree are especially abundant in the Sherbro district and its hinterland, the Mendi country.

Another English company has constructed motor roads in the Liberian hinterland to connect centres of trade with the St Paul's river.

The hinterland of Liberia has been but slightly explored for mineral wealth.

We continue our journey through the interesting and often mountainous hinterland of Tanzania.

In parts where European authority remained weak, as in the hinterland of the Portuguese province of Angola and the adjacent regions of Central Africa, native potentates continued to raid their neighbours, and from this region many labourers were (up to 1910) forcibly taken to work on the cocoa plantation in St Thomas.

He harbored visions of the injured redhead out in the hinterland digging a grave for her recently murdered victim.

After 1891, in which year the Wahehe tribe ambushed and almost completely annihilated a German military force of 350 men under Baron von Zelewski, there were for many years no serious risings against German authority, which by the end of 1898 had been established over almost the whole of the hinterland.

Illorin is a great trading centre, Hausa caravans bringing goods from central Africa, and merchandise from the coasts of the Mediterranean, which is distributed from Illorin to Dahomey, Benin and the Lagos hinterland, while from the Guinea coast the trade is in the hands of the Yoruba and comes chiefly through Lagos.

Synonyms:

boondocks, rural area, backwoods, country, back country,

Antonyms:

urban area,