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[HIN-tahr-land'] 
1. the region lying behind a coastline
2. a region remote from urban areas or their cultural influence; boondocks; backcountry: "Not many newspapers deliver out here in the hinterland, so I rely on the Internet."
Origin:
Approximately 1890; borrowed from German, 'Hinterland' ('hinter': behind, from Old High German, 'hintar' + 'Land': land, from Middle High German, 'lant'). In action:
"In Hyderabad, the state capital, the contrast between the two worlds is apparent. The state government has poured millions into a new suburb of glass and steel towers, christened Hitech City. Microsoft and Oracle have located their India operations there; condominiums with names such as Cyber Gardens and Silicon County are rising from the rice paddies to house the 70,000 people eventually expected to work there.
In the shadow of the huge construction sites are hundreds of makeshift tents, occupied by tens of thousands of day laborers, all of them migrants from the drought-stricken rural hinterland. They earn nearly $1.50 a day shoveling concrete and laying bricks, a small fortune compared to rural incomes.
But as more and more farmers arrive from the countryside, work is becoming scarce. Narayan Nakolu, who lives with his wife, three children and his mother-in-law in a tent on a patch of waste ground, has worked only nine days this month and is becoming worried.
'We can't go home,' he said. 'Our land is stone, and nothing grows.'"
Liz Sly. "Poor reap little in high-tech India," San Jose Mercury News (April 18, 2004).
"The stage was set for another international showdown Monday, when chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix confirmed that the remote, isolationist state of North Dakota is in possession of a large stockpile of nuclear missiles.
'Satellite photos confirm that the North Dakotans have been quietly harboring an extensive nuclear-weapons program,' said Blix, presenting his findings in a speech to the U.N. Security Council. 'Alarmingly, this barely developed hinterland possesses the world's most technologically advanced weapons of mass destruction, capable of reaching targets all over the world.'
After initially offering no comment on the report, North Dakota officials admitted to having a stockpile of 1,710 warheads at two military sites and confirmed that the state has been home to an active nuclear-weapons-development program for decades."
"North Dakota Found To Be Harboring Nuclear Missiles," The Onion.com (February 5, 2003).
"Everybody knows the story of Chicago's illustrious past -- birthplace of the skyscraper, home of the Prairie House, all that stuff they tell you on the architecture tours.
Here's another way to think about it: From the late 1880s, when the first skyscrapers popped up in the Loop, to 1969, when Mies died, Chicago was the design equivalent of the Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs. It worked out the prototypes for new kinds of structures and urban spaces, built them in the Loop, merchandised them with ringing aphorisms such as 'form ever follows function,' then shipped them to Des Moines, Kansas City and other dots on the hinterland map.
But in the late 1980s and 1990s, the city's architectural scene, which had shown signs of weakening in the post-Miesian era, went stale."
Blair Kamin. "Chicago's Bold Rebirth," [After a dull decade, a new climate for risk-taking has the Windy City roaring back.] The Chicago Tribune (April 18, 2004).
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