Hinterland vs. Homeland — What's the Difference?

Hinterland is a German word meaning "the land behind" (a city, a port, or similar). The term's use in English was first documented by geographer George Chisholm in his Handbook of Commercial Geography (1888).

A homeland is the concept of the place where a cultural, national, or racial identity had formed. The definition can also mean simply one's country of birth.

The land directly adjacent to and inland from a coast.

One's native land.

A region remote from urban areas; backcountry.

A state, region, or territory that is closely identified with a particular people or ethnic group.

A region situated beyond metropolitan centers of culture.

Any of the ten regions designated by South Africa in the 1970s as semiautonomous or nominally independent territories for the black population. The black homelands were dissolved and reincorporated into South Africa in 1994.

The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.

The country that one regards as home.

The rural territory surrounding an urban area, especially a port.

One's country of residence.

A remote or undeveloped area, a backwater.

One's country of birth.

(figuratively) That which is unknown or unexplored about someone.

The traditional territory of an ethnic group.

(figuratively) Anything vague or ill-defined, especially something that is ill understood.

An area set aside for black South Africans under the policy of apartheid.

A remote and undeveloped area; originally, the land or region lying behind the coast district. The term is used esp. with reference to the so-called doctrine of the hinterland, sometimes advanced, that occupation of the coast supports a claim to an exclusive right to occupy, from time to time, the territory lying inland of the coast.

The country where you were born

A remote and undeveloped area