Midland

Part of speech: noun (n.)

The interior or central region of a country; -- usually in the plural. Drayton.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants. Howell.

2. Surrounded by the land; mediterranean. And on the midland sea the French had awed. Dryden.