Frontier - Kaitaku Zensen

Japanese: 開拓前線 - かいたくぜんせん
Frontier - Kaitaku Zensen

…In Europe and other countries, it is often used to mean a border, but in the United States, it often means a sparsely populated settlement adjacent to a wilderness, or an area where civilized and uncivilized societies come into contact, and in Japan it is translated as a frontier or frontier. In the early expression of the U.S. Census Bureau, it refers to an area with a population of 2 or less per square mile, but areas adjacent to such areas with a population of 3 to 6 or 7 to 18 per square mile are often considered to overlap with the frontier.

*Some of the terminology used in the "Frontier" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ヨーロッパその他の国々では〈国境〉の意味に使われる場合が多いが,アメリカ合衆国では荒野に隣接する人口の少ない開拓地,文明社会と未開社会とが接触する地域を意味することが多く,日本では〈辺境〉とか〈開拓前線〉と訳されている。アメリカ合衆国の国勢調査局の初期の表現では,人口1平方マイル当り2人以下の地域を指す語であるが,このような地域に隣接する人口1平方マイル当り3~6人,あるいは7~18人の地域もフロンティアと地域的に重ねて考えられる場合が多い。…

※「開拓前線」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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