German term
tripstrü
| 3 +1 | Podunk |
Kevin Fulton
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| 3 +1 | Nowheresville |
Alison MacG
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| 3 | Nether Piddle on the Marsh |
Lancashireman
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Sep 4, 2015 11:52: Steffen Walter changed "Field (specific)" from "Automotive / Cars & Trucks" to "Geography"
Sep 5, 2015 14:28: Phoebe Indetzki changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
PRO (3): barbarameyer, Steffen Walter, Phoebe Indetzki
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Proposed translations
Podunk
United Kingdom
Patents and related material specialist
Native in: English (Variants: UK, British, Scottish) 
Works in: German to English, French to English, Swedish to English, and 4 more.
Nowheresville
nowheresville
US informal
A place or situation of no significance, promise, or interest:
‘an unhappy girl stuck in industrial Nowheresville, UK’
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/nowhere...
OED
Nowheresville, n.
colloq. and humorous (orig. and chiefly U.S.).
A largely unknown or uninteresting place, esp. a small, rural town; (also fig.) obscurity, insignificance, limbo.
The BBC came in for a cyclone of criticism yesterday after a weatherman described the Western Isles as "nowheresville".
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12757934.display/
Similar idea in French:
Trifouilly-les-Oies
1.(Familier) (Ironique) Localité rurale imaginaire, village perdu sans attrait particulier.
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Trifouilly-les-Oies
Other options might be "back of beyond" or even things like Outer Mongolia or Timbuktu
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Nether Piddle on the Marsh
I suppose the American version would be something ending in -ville.
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Note added at 1 day3 hrs (2015-09-05 15:06:55 GMT) Post-grading
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You're welcome. However, the answer chosen bears no similarity to your original supposition. In future, it might be best to state clearly from the outset that you are looking for American English.
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