Definition of "rural area" [rural area]

• An area outside of cities and towns (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Other high rates of scleroderma include those being investigated in Woodstock, in southwestern Ontario, and that of a small rural area in the province of Rome, Italy."
• "After I became governor and taxes forced us to sell our ranch near Lake Malibu, Nancy and I purchased a large piece of land in an isolated rural area north of San Diego, planning to make it our ranch-hideaway once I left office."
• "Geographical clustering of scleroderma in a rural area in the province of Rome."