backwoods

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

backwoods
    n 1: a remote and undeveloped area [syn: {backwoods}, {back
         country}, {boondocks}, {hinterland}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Backwoods \Back"woods"\, n. pl. [Back, a. + woods.]
   The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

39 Moby Thesaurus words for "backwoods":
      back, back country, back of beyond, back-country, backcountry,
      backwash, backwater, backwood, backwoodsy, boondock, boondocks,
      borderland, brush, bush, bush country, bushveld, forests, frontier,
      hinterland, outback, outpost, sticks, sylvan, the bush, timbers,
      uninhabited region, up-country, virgin, virgin land,
      virgin territory, waste, wasteland, wild, wild West, wilderness,
      wilds, woodland, woodlands, woods