Hinterland
Land behind a coast or the shoreline of a river / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the geographical term. For other uses, see Hinterland (disambiguation).
Hinterland is a German word meaning "the land behind" (a city, a port, or similar).[1] Its use in English was first documented by the geographer George Chisholm in his Handbook of Commercial Geography (1888).[2] 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 include any area under the influence of a particular human settlement.[3]
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