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backwater  (backwaters plural )
1  n-count A backwater is a place that is isolated. 
usu with supp 
...a quiet rural backwater.  
2  n-count If you refer to a place or institution as a backwater, you think it is not developing properly because it is isolated from ideas and events in other places and institutions. 
usu with supp  (disapproval)  Britain could become a political backwater with no serious influence in the world...