Usually means: Remote, rural areas in South Africa.
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  1. backveld: Merriam-Webster
  2. backveld: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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  4. backveld: Wiktionary
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▸ noun:  (southern Africa) Backward and unsophisticated rural areas.

Similar:
backcountry, veld, sweetveld, boerie, karoo, braaivleis, Boer, back forty, boondock, assback, more...

Opposite:
frontier, metropolis, urbarea

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Similar:
backcountry, veld, sweetveld, boerie, karoo, braaivleis, Boer, back forty, boondock, assback, more...

Opposite:
frontier, metropolis, urbarea



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