We have a few in Spanish, one of my favourites is "Donde Cristo perdió el mechero": Where Christ lost his lighter.

I grew up with bumfuck nowhere or just bumfuck

If its even further away it's "onde judas desistiu de achar as botas". Where judas gave up trying to find his boots

In French: trou du cul du monde, or World's asshole.

Sure for some parts, but the entire area includes:

Ghent

Bruges

Leuven

could also be at the fictional town "triffouilli-les-oies".. litteraly at "fondling-the-geeses"

Much better the "a tomar por culo" , translate that

pretty shit parking at those first two, i'll give you that

Strange, if it is all parking I would think there'd be plenty of space ;)

you've only showed one angle, could be like an ikea parking lot behind the camera or something

A Levant arabic way of saying it is "في طيز العقرب" which literally means "in the scorpions ass"

Parking lots generally have better asphalt

You're absolutely right on both points, I didn't remember until you mentioned it! Didn't know Moukmouk was a real thing, though... The more you know!

Never heard about Wabush; is it a regional thing?

Some others in English: East Jesus, fuckbutt point, cow country.

UK does have the idiom "bumfuck, nowhere" a fictional town in the fictional county of nowhere

In Hebrew, the closest we have is טיזינבי (tizinabi), which doesn't mean anything in Hebrew but comes from Arabic طيز ٱلنَّبِي where it apparently means "the prophet's butt". TIL.

To anyone not Danish reading this, the Danish word for diarrhea is diarré, but this expression (på Lars tyndskids mark) utilizes another word - tyndskid, literally translated as "thin shit".

But unfortunately I think diarrhea is the English word that comes closest, but still doesn't capture the magnificent imagery of tyndskid

In Latin American Spanish we say "Donde el diablo perdió el poncho" that translates as "Where the devil lost his poncho" or "Donde cayó el avión" / "Where the plane crashed"

Huh, so in Southern Germany we like to reference Buxtehude as a place that's really far away and probably doesn't exist (even though it is a very real city near Hamburg). ^1

And I just learned that there's also a saying about Buxtehude, that it's the place where dogs bark with their tails. ^2
Apparently, they refer to bells as dogs in their local dialect.

I did also randomly find a reference to Buxtehude being where dogs bark with their ass, in a German text. ^3

So, maybe you guys also just dump on Buxtehude like we do. 🙃

"We can't stop here! This is cow country!"

• Fear and Loathing in Cornwall

Meanwhile in Chile: "A la conchade su madre"
(Literally: "Towards your mother's c**t")

Yeah we have a bunch of these.

In Flemish (Belgian Dutch) we say: "In 't hol van Pluto" = literally in the arse of (The greek god of the underworld) Pluto.

In Greek it is: στου διαόλου τη μάνα, which means "at the Devil's mom"

We called it BFE growing up, Bumfuck Egypt.

Huh, I hadn't thought about the origin of the wop-wops but it checks out. Also I thought people who said woop woops were townies but apparently they are Aussies.

I find it funny that the title is "cultural differences", but the content is actually showing how all these cultures needed someway to describe being in the middle of nowhere.

Also Bumblefuck

I'm sure there's a bunch of versions anyway ! Each of my grandmas would surely have said it the differently from each other, although they were born 25km from each other.

I do love how Perpète-les-Andouillettes rhymes !

there's also zadupie, which literally means "behind-the-ass place", and also wypizdowie, or wypizdów, which i can best translate as "fuck-off place"

my friend group also uses Wypizdów Dolny, the context for which is like that one spongebob episode with Bikini Bottomer (or -est, i don't remember), but wypizdów edition.

The English version of in the middle of nowhere is "aaaa where the fuck am I" which means "where the pigs turn to sausage"

We have "the boonies", referring to "the boondocks" or, um, there was a song. I wanted to fuck with you a little but you are so nice.

Is the green devil cannabis?

Is that a real village? I only have a little knowledge of German but it sounds like a finger up the bum. Or a bum up the finger, I'm not sure

I called it that because the cultures describe it differently, which is a difference 🤷🏻

But mostly because I couldn't come up with a better title 😁

Anyone remember "BFE"?

As in,
"Where are you?"
"I'm in the middle of BFE."

In New Zealand we say 'in Waikikamukau' (pronounced "Why kick a moo cow") because it's juuuuust enough like actual place names here that people don't instantly pick up on the alternate meaning.

It wasn't really a complaint, but just noting that it shows both differences and yet also similarities.

A lot of them seem to mention butts for some reason lmao.

In my hometown we usually say "a Puttemburgo" (literally "Whoreburg") or "in culo ai lupi" ("up the wolves' arsehole") or "a Tron di Dio" ("on God's throne").

I guess closest turkish version I ever seen used is "ebenin götünde," which translates to "in your midwife's butt."

One of these is not like the others 😄

In Québec we also use au milieu de nulle part. But abetter option is Saint-Glin-glin des meuh-meuh. Saint-ding-dong on the moo-moo.

Oh, so out near this little guy's neck of the woods? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ei6trd4kd4

au milieu de nulle part

Hmm lemme guess.. To the place of no parts?

Came here looking for BFE

Probably a derivative of "the ass end of nowhere" or similar

In oldworld French, Trifouillis-les-oies is a favourite of mine (it's a fictional village name, meaning something like... Fiddledy-the-geese).
Saint-glin-glin is for a date, here.

In the middle of no-where