hinterland
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Hinterland is the area under the influence of a particular human settlement.
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- Subclass of
- region
- Said to be same as
- backcountry
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- facet of
- human geography
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- different from
- Mainland Japan
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Hinterland is the area under the influence of a particular human settlement.
The word comes from a German word meaning 'land behind' a city, a port, or similar. Its use in English was first documented by the geographer George Chisholm in his Handbook of Commercial Geography (1888). Originally the term was associated with the area of a port in which materials for export and import are stored and shipped. Subsequently, the use of the word expanded to its current use.
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