0 the land behind the coast or the banks of a river, or an area of a country that is far away from cities --
1 a region in the middle part of a country, esp. a large country, that is far from cities or the coast: --
The touring theater group took its production into the hinterland.
2 the area that surrounds a big city or port and on which the city or port depends for economic growth: --
Not all these schemes are necessarily connected with discharges to the sea, because some of the authorities have deep hinterlands.
The effective hinterlands of the major ports are much smaller and less distant from them than anybody had previously thought.
The politics of sustainable development: reconciliation in indigenous hinterlands.
There is no specific discussion of the extent and population size and density of the hinterlands of the centres investigated, nor of their relationships with the higher-order centres around them.
Thus, economic relations between city-state centers and their hinterlands became reoriented and redefined with reference to the politically impor tant imperial cities that were also the largest market centers.
The author examines the history of each of these cities and also focuses on the continuous interaction between these urban centres, and their ties to their respective hinterlands.
Such a system would have been infinitely extensible, given adequate rainfall and sufficient food, while salt and other goods could be impor ted from the hinterlands to maintain the inhabitants.
The extensive hinterlands and links with the surrounding countryside which these places enjoyed - precisely the qualities which made them attractive as leisure towns - served to bolster their service sectors.