place far from home; strange land; foreign country
Literary or somewhat formal word for a place away from one's hometown or native country. Often carries a sense of unfamiliarity or loneliness.
He started living alone in a place far from home.
Under the sky of a strange land, I think of my hometown.
Compound of 他 (other) and 郷 (village, hometown, district). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word has been used in classical and literary Japanese to refer to a place away from one's own home region.