rural area

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Noun

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rural area - an area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country" country back country, backwoods, boondocks, hinterland - a remote and undeveloped area farming area, farmland - a rural area where farming is practiced geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region - a demarcated area of the Earth grazing land, ley, pasture, pastureland, lea - a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock countryside - rural regions scrubland - an uncultivated region covered with scrub vegetation weald - an area of open or forested country wold - a tract of open rolling country (especially upland) populated area, urban area - a geographical area constituting a city or town