Outlying

a.

1.

Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached.

Adj.

1.

outlying - relatively far from a center or middle; "outlying settlements"

apparent, cortical, distant, epidermic, exomorphic, exterior, extraneous, extraorganismal, extrinsic, far, far-flung, far-off, faraway, farthest, foreign, fringe, furthest, impersonal, nonsubjective, objective, open, out, outermost, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, peripheral, public, removed, roundabout, seeming, superficial, surface