An outlying, remote, or secluded part of a country or region, or of the world. Also figurative.

Originally and chiefly U.S. Usually in plural. The outlying lands of a province, district, or town.

A remote place, region, or part.

Wild, uncleared forest-land; e.g. that of North America. Also a remote and sparsely inhabited region.

A county lying in the inland part of a state. Also attributive.

A remote place or region. Frequently in plural. Obsolete.

The type of a very remote place; further than one can imagine, the ends of the earth.

A remote or inaccessible place (frequently in the middle of nowhere). Also the (also a) road to nowhere: a remote place; (in later use) a situation…

slang (originally U.S.). the sticks: a remote, thinly populated, or rural area; the backwoods; the country. Chiefly in prepositional phrases, esp…

Usually with the. The Australian outback. Also in plural.

A part of a state that is more southern or low-lying than another, or is more remote from a chief metropolitan centre, esp. the southern part of…

Remote inland country; the ‘back of beyond’.

The most remote districts or back settlements.

A jocular name for a remote rural town or district; also (without the and with capital initials) as the name of an imaginary place in a remote area.

A remote rural place or district; ‘the sticks’. Frequently in up the boohai: in a very remote or out of the way place; (figurative) completely…

A remote rural region; the wilds; = the back of beyond at beyond, adv. prep.n. phrases 7. Also attributive.

(The type of) an unsophisticated, impoverished rural community.

In extended use: the remote inland regions of any country (usually with allusion to the Australian interior). Also figurative.

With plural agreement. Backwoods; remote or thinly populated regions.

An upstate region; a rural area.

Used with allusion to the view attributed to Londoners that north of the metropolis there is nothing of any significance to English national or…