Backcountry vs Rural - What's the difference?
backcountry | rural |
A remote region; the boondocks.
Pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4
As a noun backcountry
is a remote region; the boondocks.As an adjective rural is
pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas.backcountry
English
(wikipedia backcountry)Alternative forms
* back countryNoun
See also
* wop-wops * hinterlandrural
English
(wikipedia rural)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins … .}}