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297. Hinterland - IELTS Nouns - IELTS Vocabulary

by 정이로운 잉여생활 2022. 10. 10.
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Hinterland : (큰 도시/해안지역에서 멀리 떨어진) 내륙지역, 오지, 배후지, (내가 보이고 아는 영역을 넘어선)영역

hinterland is interior, the apart is away from the coast

 

the capital city Lima is on the coast and there a big coastal strip of Peru but if you go over the Andes, the hinterland is I think much more interesting

it's the interior of a country

 

to say the part of a country that away from the big city area

Hinterland in Britain I think probably Scotland's better

Edinburgh and Glasgow are in the south of Scotland but as you go northwards and get into the hinterland, the countryside becomes more beautiful 

the part of a country that is away from the influence of the big city areas 

it's rural areas, beyound the major towns and major ports

agricultural hinterland

the hinterland, it has much lower population but also maybe much more interesting place

 

you can use it more metaphorically

to talk about something that is beyond what you can see and what you know

telesccopes are seeing further and further into space but what is in the hinterland beyond that, who knows?

where life begins and where life ends, maybe the hinterland are between the after those two states

effectively a hinterland, a remote urban area, a long way from the coast

go into the hinterland

it's the back country

it's a rural area

 

 

Formality : 5

 

 

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