Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
back country
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Thirteen remain in the Santa Barbara County back country.
▪ When Taylor asked some of the boys at Midvale to join him in the back country, all but William Fannon refused.
Wiktionary
back country
n. A remote part of a country
WordNet
back country
n. a remote and undeveloped area [syn: backwoods, boondocks, hinterland]
Wikipedia
Back country
Back country may refer to:
- Backcountry, a remote, isolated, undeveloped geographic area
- Back Country, a live CD/DVD released by Five for Fighting
Usage examples of "back country".
As it is, parts of her back country are enough to frighten one, they look so bony.
Although he was, in fact, a wealthy man who lived in a magnificent mansion, the Hermitage, outside of Nashville, Tennessee, Jackson was also a self-made son of the Carolina back country.
This was the back country, and they rolled rapidly south through it, night after night, and slept in the darkened cabin of the car through the days.
The roads in England weren't much better than the tracks and trails in the wild back country of Texas, just a little less bumpy and with no prairie dog holes or bandits.