outlying

adj

remote, distant, faraway, a long way off, Inf. a good ways off, far-off; detached, isolated, inaccessible, out-of-the-way, secluded, insular, lonely, forsaken, Godforsaken, in a backwater, forgotten by the world; unfrequented, off the beaten path, removed, separate, apart; peripheral, bordering, rimming, skirting, bounding, marginal, borderline; shoreline, coastal, littoral; out, outermost, ulterior, yonder, yon, farther, further, remoter, most distant; frontier, provincial, rustic, rural, country, hinterland, back-country, upcountry, Australian. outback, wild, wilderness, backwood, backwoods, Sl. in the boondocks or boonies; back of beyond, up in the hills, over the mountain or hills, tramontane, ultramontane, extraterritorial, exterior, external; extreme, terminal, last, farthest.