The phrase "a peripheral area" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a location or region that is situated on the outskirts or margins of a central area or main focus.
Example: "The research team conducted their study in a peripheral area of the city, where access to resources was limited."
Alternatives: "a marginal area" or "an outer region".
"For all the hand-wringing of successive governments over the closure of plants like Redcar, the problem is that in peripheral areas – and Redcar is a peripheral area – you tend to close the plant and leave marooned workers.
This allowed the elaboration of intervention strategies applied to two different areas: one within the historical nucleus of the village and the other in a peripheral area.
However, in Florence, in addition to the Province and the Region, several small towns were involvedy in a peripheral area characterized by a high environmental profile (Chiodini and La Nave 2010: 38).
According to earlier views, the southern coast of Finland was a peripheral area until the 12th and 13th centuries, when Swedish colonists arrived with technological advances and the maritime landscape could be settled.
It has been found that the acceleration of ions is a consequence of the potential gradient between an area with a high level of microwave oscillations and a peripheral area of plasma.
Which means that if you're living in a peripheral area of Brazil, or want to buy something other than auto insurance, or want to buy insurance outside of normal business hours, or just want to see who's selling the cheapest plan, you make up an unattended segment of the consumer population.
The imaging signature for tumors consisted of a peripheral region areas of high signal intensity surrounding a central region of low signal intensity.
Unlike their description, Suweon 542 had an entirely white opaque kernel except for a thin peripheral area (Figure 1B).
Mercantour has a central, heavily protected core of 685 sq km where visitors are only allowed to walk and a bigger, peripheral area of 28 mountain villages, where it is possible to go biking and hang-gliding.
Cross-sectional observation of dehulled kernels revealed that most part of the Suweon 542 endosperm was white opaque except for a thin peripheral area of the grain (Figure 1B).
Two of these subjects (SL, LG) were additionally unable to perform search movements to detect single letters and isolated words initially projected within the scotoma, and to relocate the projected image onto a healthy peripheral area.
