cappy
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Hello I French exchange student in UK for study. came across hinterland randomly on PC electronic dictionary. I become curious and I looked up word first on Dictionary.com. Here what it gave me.
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Source Cambridge Dictionary
ECONOMICS
Hello I French exchange student in UK for study. came across hinterland randomly on PC electronic dictionary. I become curious and I looked up word first on Dictionary.com. Here what it gave me.
Source Dictionary.com
- Often hinterlands. the remote or less developed parts of a country; back country:
- The hinterlands are usually much more picturesque than the urban areas.
- the land lying behind a coastal region.
- an area or sphere of influence in the unoccupied interior claimed by the state possessing the coast.
- an inland area supplying goods, especially trade goods, to a port.
Source Cambridge Dictionary
ECONOMICS
- the area that surrounds a big city or port and on which the city or port depends for economic growth:
Example: China is Hong Kong's economic hinterland and biggest trading partner.
- Originally the term was associated with the area of a port in which materials for export and import are stored and shipped. In shipping usage, a port's hinterland is the area that it serves, both for imports and for exports."
- An export hinterland is the backcountry region from which the goods being shipped from the port originate and an import hinterland is the backcountry region for which the goods shipped to the port are destined. Export and import hinterlands have complementary forelands that lie on the seaward side of the port. An export foreland is the region to which the goods being shipped from the port are bound and an import foreland is the region from which goods being shipped to the port originate."