穷乡僻壤

a remote and desolate place

poor / destitute / to use up / to exhaust / thoroughly / extremely / (coll.) persistently and pointlessly

country or countryside / native place / home village or town / township (PRC administrative unit)

far from town / out-of-the-way place

(bound form) remote / out of the way / off-center / eccentric

soil / earth