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Rural areas (also referred to as "the country", countryside) are settled places outside towns and cities. Such areas are distinct from more intensively settled urban and suburban areas, and also from unsettled lands such as outback, American Old West or wilderness. Inhabitants live in villages, hamlets, on farms and in other isolated houses. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (3008x2000, 2504 KB) Description: Swedish countryside (Dalarna, Sweden). ...
ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (3008x2000, 2504 KB) Description: Swedish countryside (Dalarna, Sweden). ...
There is also Norwegian region called Dalane. ...
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Qichun is the county town of Qichun County located in Huanggang Prefecture of Hubei province, China. ...
Hubei (Chinese: 湖北; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Hu-pei; Postal System Pinyin: Hupeh) is a central province of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
Cities with at least a million inhabitants in 2006 An urban area is an area with an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ...
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For other uses, see Outback (disambiguation). ...
The cowboy, the quintessential symbol of the American Old West, circa 1887. ...
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Masouleh village, Gilan Province, Iran. ...
A hamlet is (usually — see below) a small settlement, too small or unimportant to be considered a village. ...
For other uses, see Farm (disambiguation). ...
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In modern usage, rural areas can have an agricultural character, though many rural areas are characterized by an economy based on logging, mining, petroleum and natural gas exploration, or tourism. Logging is the process in which trees are cut down usually as part of a timber harvest which is good for the environment. ...
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Lifestyles in rural areas are different from those in urban areas depending on the area, mainly because limited services, especially public services are available. Governmental services like police, schools, fire stations, and libraries are generally available, but may be limited in scope, or unavailable in remote communities. Utilities like water, sewerage, street lighting, and public waste management are generally present in the larger settlements. Public transport is usually limited or absent and many people use their own vehicles. If this is impractical, they may walk or ride an animal such as a horse, donkey, or camel depending on where they live. This article is about a term used in economics. ...
Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services. ...
Students in Rome, Italy. ...
Fire station in Kostroma, Russia (1823-26). ...
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A water supply network is a system of engineered hydrologic and hydraulic components, including: the watershed or geographic area that collects the water, see water purification - sources of drinking water; a raw (untreated) water reservoir (above or below ground) where the water gathers, such as a lake, a river, or...
The word sewerage means the provision of pipes etc to collect and dispose of sewage. ...
A high pressure sodium vapor street lamp from Australia. ...
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Bangkok Skytrain. ...
The Trikke is a Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) Automobiles are among the most commonly used engine powered vehicles. ...
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Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The horse (Equus caballus, sometimes seen as a subspecies of the Wild Horse, Equus ferus caballus) is a large odd-toed ungulate mammal, one of ten modern species of the genus Equus. ...
Binomial name Linnaeus, 1758 For other uses, see Donkey (disambiguation). ...
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Definition in the United States
In the Rural Information Center’s publication, What is Rural? “many people have definitions for the term rural, but seldom are these rural definitions in agreement. For some, rural is a subjective state of mind. For others, rural is an objective quantitative measure. Metropolitan/urban areas can be defined using several criteria. Once this is done, nonmetropolitan/rural is then defined by exclusion -- any area that is not metropolitan/urban is nonmetropolitan/rural. Determining the criteria used has a great impact on the resulting classification of areas as metro/ nonmetropolitan or urban/rural.” The US Census Bureau and the United States Department of Argiculture's Economic Research Service have come together to help define rural areas. The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ...
The Economic Research Service (ERS) is the main source of economic information and research from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. ...
Rural schools “The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) revised its definition of rural schools in 2006 after working with the Census Bureau to create a new locale classification system to capitalize on improved geocoding technology and the 2000 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) definitions of metro areas that rely less on population size and county boundaries than proximity of an address to an urbanized area. The new classification system has four major locale categories— city, suburban, town, and rural —each of which is subdivided into three subcategories. Cities and suburbs are subdivided into the categories small, midsize, or large; towns and rural areas are subdivided by their proximity to an urbanized area into the categories fringe, distant, or remote. These twelve categories are based on several key concepts that Census uses to define an area's urbanicity: principal city, urbanized area, and urban cluster. Rural areas are designated by Census as those areas that do not lie inside an urbanized area or urban cluster. NCES has classified all schools into one of these twelve categories based on schools' actual addresses and their corresponding coordinates of latitude and longitude. Not only does this mean that the location of any school can be identified precisely, but also that distance measures can be used to identify town and rural subtypes.” The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), as part of the U.S. Department of Education, collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States; conducts studies on international comparisons of education statistics; and provides leadership in developing and promoting the use...
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is a body within the Executive Office of the President of the United States which is tasked with coordinating United States Federal agencies. ...
Rural health Rural health definitions can be different for establishing underserved areas or health care accessibility in rural areas of the United States. According to the handbook, Definitions of Rural: A Handbook for Health Policy Makers and Researchers, “Residents of metropolitan counties are generally thought to have easy access to the relatively concentrated health services of the county’s central areas. However, some metropolitan counties are so large that they contain small towns and rural, sparsely populated areas that are isolated from these central clusters and their corresponding health services by physical barriers.” To address this type of rural area, “Harold Goldsmith, Dena Puskin, and Dianne Stiles (1992) described a methodology to identify small towns and rural areas within large metropolitan counties (LMCs) that were isolated from central areas by distance or other physical features.” This became the Goldsmith Modification definition of rural. “The Goldsmith Modification has been useful for expanding the eligibility for federal programs that assist rural populations—to include the isolated rural populations of large metropolitan counties.”
See also The cowboy, the quintessential symbol of the American Old West, circa 1887. ...
Broadband in telecommunications is a term that refers to a signaling method that includes or handles a relatively wide range of frequencies, which may be divided into channels or frequency bins. ...
A boondock, in geography, is a landform consisting of a slight rise in elevation found in vegetated sandy landscapes, such as Colorados San Luis Valley. ...
A country house is a large dwelling, such as a mansion, located on a country estate. ...
The term digital divide refers to the gap between those with regular, effective access to digital and information technology, and those without it. ...
Folk culture refers to the localized lifestyle of a subsistence or otherwise inward looking culture. ...
Landed gentry is a term traditionally applied in Britain to members of the upper class with country estates often (but not always) farmed on their behalf by others, and who might be without a peerage or other hereditary title. ...
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), as part of the U.S. Department of Education, collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States; conducts studies on international comparisons of education statistics; and provides leadership in developing and promoting the use...
For other uses, see Outback (disambiguation). ...
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Rural crafts refers to the traditional crafts production that is carried on, simply for everyday practical use, in the agricultural countryside. ...
In medicine, rural health is the interdisciplinary study of health and health care delivery in the context of a rural environment or location. ...
The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ...
References - Definitions of Rural: A Handbook for Health Policy Makers and Researchers.PDF (6.12 MiB) Thomas C. Ricketts, Karen D. Johnson-Webb, Patricia Taylor. Chapel Hill: North Carolina Rural Health Research Program, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, 1998. 13 p.
- What is Rural? USDA, National Agricultural Library, Rural Information Center.
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