outskirts (n.)
- ambience
 - ambit
 - antipodes
 - barrio
 - border
 - borderland
 - borough
 - boundaries
 - bounds
 - bourg
 - burg
 - burgh
 - circle
 - circuit
 - circumference
 - circumscription
 - circumstances
 - city
 - compass
 - confines
 - context
 - conurbation
 - core
 - downtown
 - edge
 - entourage
 - environment
 - environs
 - exurbia
 - faubourg
 - frontier
 - gestalt
 - ghetto
 - greenbelt
 - habitat
 - limitations
 - limits
 - march
 - marches
 - marchland
 - megalopolis
 - metropolis
 - milieu
 - municipality
 - neighborhood
 - nowhere
 - outback
 - outpost
 - pale
 - perimeter
 - periphery
 - pole
 - polis
 - situation
 - skirts
 - slum
 - suburb
 - suburbia
 - surroundings
 - tenderloin
 - town
 - township
 - uptown
 - vicinity
 - ville