"periphery" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use the word to refer to the outer boundaries or limits of a place, or to the group of people living in or near a specific place. For example: In the outskirts of the city lies its periphery, often neglected and overlooked.
Historically, the Egyptian government has forced people to live in areas on Cairo's periphery, by evicting them from poor inner-city areas, and relocating them to the desert towns.
Those involved in youth violence are dubbed gangs when really they are groups on the periphery who commit robberies and other crimes as a group of friends.
His book has a chapter on what he calls "periphery nostalgia", the belief in Israel that better relations could return either by the authorities in Tehran changing or being removed.
Her nationalism is solidly pragmatic rather than romantic: She believes in Welsh independence not primarily as a matter of national identity, but the best way of pulling her country away from a system in which government "puts all its effort into promoting London and the south-east, and neglects the periphery".
The chorus of criticism from the eastern periphery of the eurozone meant that the usual suspects – Wolfgang Schäuble of Germany and eurogroup chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem of the Netherlands – were spared the need to issue their usual dire warnings to the Greeks.
Neither the image of a Trabant involved in a head-on collision nor the idea of Hungary being on the "periphery of Europe" are in any way helpful.
"The fall in the krona boosted net trade by enough to kick-start Iceland's economic recovery without the need for the aggressive wage and price adjustments that have occurred in the eurozone periphery.
They might also lead to a highly fragmented, multispeed Europe, with a periphery permanently suffering legal turmoil and political uncertainty.
Were Greece to leave it could well undermine confidence in countries on the eurozone periphery, as well as in the single currency itself, say economists.
Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev, a researcher on Armenian history and culture at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, said the ceremony demonstrated the pope's efforts to put periphery Christian groups at the centre of the Catholic church.
If Syriza succeeds in rolling back the EU-mandated measures, it could encourage dissident political movements in other parts of Europe; the right-wing governments in Europe's periphery are terrified of a Greek success at the negotiating table.
