back country

1. 1.

   a remote and undeveloped area

   Synonymsbackwoodsboondockshinterland

   Broadercountry

Questions about back country

What does back country mean?

back country means "a remote and undeveloped area".

What is another word for back country?

Close synonyms include backwoods, boondocks, hinterland. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is back country a common word?

back country is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.