In Romanian it's „unde și-a înțărcat dracul copiii” which means "where the Devil weaned his children".

Portuguese "onde Judas perdeu as botas". where Judas lost his boots.

If you go there, pls bring the boots.

In belgian french, we have "Outsiplou-les-Bains-de-Pieds". Made up town name that both sounds funny and too long to actually exist, but the Outsiplou part kind of means "listen if it's raining" in walloon.
And "Perpète-les-Oies". Which you could translate to "Far-away Geese", which is plain gibberish but sounds like a lot of real places in France.
There's plently of variations but they mostly try to invent a name that sounds like a stereotypical countryside village name.

TIL it's not called "hutsilpu" and actually has as story behind it lol

i'd never seen it spelled out or the long version, so i just assumed x3

Romanian

dracul

That sounds so stereotypical lol.

people from stockholm call everything that's outside of the city spenaten, "the spinach".

In Danish you can say "where the crows turn".

There’s also tjotahejti, which is a spin on Otaheiti, an older name for Tahiti.

American English has “Buttfuck, Idaho”, possibly substituting more polite names, and/or other equally sparsely populated states. If it’s abroad, it becomes Buttfuckistan or some equivalent.

Not sure about a British equivalent, but I’ve seen “Invernowhere” used in a Scottish context (there’s probably a swearier version this was bowdlerised from), and Dylan Thomas named an imaginary Welsh town Llareggub (read it backwards).

Always heard Bumfuck Egypt, BFE being the more polite way to say it

I mean there's a reason Bram Stoker picked the name "Dracula" for his character ya know...

Or "out where the crows bring a packed lunch"

Dylan Thomas named an imaginary Welsh town Llareggub (read it backwards).

Perfect! 😆😘👌🏼

I think this "<...>-nowhere" construction is common and adapted to different areas - I have definitely heard of "Bally-back-o-nowhere" in Ireland.

In Dutch we have "Lutjebroek". Problem is, Lutjebroek is also a real village with about 2000 people in it. There's also "Schubbekutteveen" which does not really exists and roughly translates as scaled-cunt-ville.

In British English there's:

• arse-end of nowhere
• the sticks
• back of beyond

and probably more

In Italian we say we are in culo ai lupi which means in the ass of wolves or at inculandia which translates to in the ass land

a local one i like is "Finnpörtimansbo"

Ha! How local is that? I've never heard that in my life! Like, one little pub in like, Finspång?

Danish: Lars Tyndskids marker

Lars - being a name, Tyndskid - being running shits, marker - being fields

Lars Running Shits' fields.

It is easy to see which countries have poetic mindsets and which have been shaped by sloppy drunks.

In Spain we have "en el quinto pino": in the fifth pine, and "estoy a tomar por saco", which badly translates to "to go get fucked in a bag".

Here in Texas it's always been BFE, butt-fucking Egypt. Never have I heard Idaho used in this context.

However the context is different, because BFE refers to somewhere far away rather to being in the middle of nowhere

(Southern) Germany has Hintertupfingen, where "Hinter-" refers to "behind".

It really sounds like some 1000 year old village with 20 inhabitants.

I always liked “east jabip” and “east jahunga” (sometimes jahunga road or Jahungaville)

Dogpatch is an interesting one bc I’ve heard it used to mean “middle of nowhere” and also “where poor people/hillbillies live”. It’s got history too since Lil Abner comics were set in Dogpatch, and there’s a San Francisco neighborhood of that name.

Mmmm spinach

In Québec, we say "Saint Clin-Clin Des meuh-meuh"; "Saint", because a lot of towns here are named after a Saint, "Clin-Clin" because of another expression "ti-clin" which means some random person, so "Clin-Clin" means a random Saint, and "des meuh-meuh" because a lot of towns here have some kind of suffix like "des Saults", or "de Brandon", so "des meuh-meuh" (like moo-moo) is the sound a cow makes, and I guess it sounds rural or something. Also, when we talk about somewhere very far away, we say "au diable vert" "at the green devil"; not sure about the origin of this expression, though.

There's also "Hvor kragerne vender" - "Where the crows turn", so we're not completely unpoetic (not going to dispute the drunk part).

Very true, lol! A little credit to our forefathers is in order!

That's nicer than the people of Antwerp, who call the rest of Flanders a parking lot

"Podunk" is a real town in the USA, but people use Podunk to mean any small, unsophisticated town.

I think it's important to also mention Wabush, a very remote town mostly known for being referenced in "chu parké à Wabush", which means "I parked my car in Wabush", thus implying that said parking spot was very bad which resulted in a long walk to the desired destination, often causing one to be late.

In Polish we've got "gdzie psy dupami szczekają" or where dogs bark with their assess.

Ooh I always thought it was Outsiploutte. In my area of France we have Perpète-les-Andouillettes (which kind of translates similar to les oies) and Pétaouchnoque.

In Slovenia we either use the serbian one or we say Bogu za nogo/hrbtom. Meaning behind god's leg/back.

isn't that pretty accurate for the entire area?

more like three guys in bjurs

The real expression is originally from France «au diable Vauvert».

We also say «aux îles Moukmouk» which is actually a real single remote island in Abittibi, l'Île Moukmouk.

Antwerpen is t stad en de rest is parking.

Also, if a bit more vulgar, "el quinto coño" ("the fifth cunt"). And don't forget "donde cristo perdió el mechero/ la chancla" ("where Christ lost his lighter/flip-flop").

This may be the first post I've ever come across where I wish there was an "Upvote All Comments" button...

These could all be made up for all I know, but they are all very entertaining! 😄

Icelandic has "lengst úti í rassgati" which means as far as you can go to an asshole. There's also the leas common "í langtíburtistan" which is in Far-away-istan

I live in WA and I've only heard buttfuck nowhere

Because it's so boring and far away from everything the only thing to do is fuck butts

In Australia we have "the outback", which isn't really "the middle of nowhere" but, it's also nowhere in particular.

I don't really know but I suspect it arose in the colonial era, when settlements were on the coast, and the hinterland was settled agricultural properties, but "out the back" away from the coast its dry, arid, and not much to see.

"The Australian Outback" refers to a class of landscape, rather than a place, but if you're in the outside back you're in the middle of nowhere.

Dont forget; "in Lars Diarrhea's field"

“Where Christ lost his flip-flop” is amazing haha

“Bumfuck Nowheresville” = variant I haven’t seen here yet

In Scotland, we say 'middleae fucking naewhere' or 'Largs'.

That’s literally the first time I heard that hungarian version, that’s not what we use, we use “az isten háta mögött” which is “behind gods back” to refer to places in bumfuck nowhere

Same in Arizona, people will say stuff like "he lives out in BFE." I always heard it meant "Bum Fuck East" but is basically shorthand for "way out there."