バックウォーター

noun

backwater

English loanword used in Japanese to refer to a stagnant or isolated body of water, or metaphorically to a place or situation that is cut off from progress.

• その村むらは交こう通つうの便べんが悪わるく、まるでバックウォーターのようだ。

  The village has poor transportation links and feels like a backwater.