poor village; desolate hamlet; remote village
A village that is economically poor, sparsely populated, or geographically isolated, often with a bleak or lonely atmosphere. Used in literary or descriptive contexts.
He was born and raised in a remote mountain village.
その寒村には電気も水道も通っていなかった。
That poor village had neither electricity nor running water.
He grew up in a poor village in the Tohoku region.
The elderly couple lives in a quiet, desolate village.
I visited a remote, impoverished village deep in the mountains for a report.