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Encyclopedia > Rural area
Rural area in Dalarna, Sweden
Rural area in Dalarna, Sweden
Sheep eating grass in rural Australia
Sheep eating grass in rural Australia

Rural areas are sparsely settled places away from the influence of large cities and towns. Such areas are distinct from more intensively settled urban and suburban areas, and also from unsettled lands such as outback or wilderness. People in rural areas live in villages, 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). ... (?) is a historical province or landskap in central Sweden. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1067, 481 KB) Sheep eating grass, edit of Image:Sheep eating grass. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1067, 481 KB) Sheep eating grass, edit of Image:Sheep eating grass. ... Sydney, Australia at Night. ... Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town In American English, a town is usually a municipal corporation that is smaller than a city but larger than a village. ... Urban area is a term used to define an area where there is an increased density of man-made structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ... Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ... A typical outback scene, somewhere north of Coober Pedy. ... Bob Marshall Wilderness, Montana, United States Wilderness is land that has not been significantly modified by direct or indirect human activity. ... A village is a human settlement commonly found in rural areas. ... Bales of hay on a farm near Ames, Iowa A farm is the basic unit in agriculture. ... House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...


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. Loggers on break, c. ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine This article is about mineral extraction. ... The history of the petroleum industry in North America began nearly simultaneously in Canada and the United States. ... Natural gas (commonly referred to as gas in many countries, but note that gas is also an American and Canadian shortening of gasoline) is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane. ... Tourist redirects here; for the album by Athlete, see Tourist (album) Tourism is the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ...


Lifestyles in rural areas are different than those in urban areas, mainly because limited services, especially public services are available. Governmental services like law enforcement, schools, fire departments, and libraries may be distant, limited in scope, or unavailable. Utilities like water, sewage, street lighting, and public waste management may not be present. Public transport is absent or very limited, people use their own vehicles, walk, bicycle, or ride an animal. In economics and marketing, a service is the non-material equivalent of a good. ... 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. ... For the band, see The Police. ... American high school students in a school A school is most commonly a place designated for learning. ... Firefighter with an axe A firefighter, sometimes still called a fireman though women have increasingly joined firefighting units, is a person who is trained and equipped to put out fires, rescue people and in some areas provide emergency medical services. ... Modern-style library In the traditional sense of the word, a library is a collection of books and periodicals. ... A water supply system provides water to the locations that need it. ... Sewage is domestic, municipal, or industrial liquid waste products disposed of via a pipe or similar structure. ... A roadway light in front of a red sky at night A street light or street lamp, also known as a light standard or lamp standard, is a raised light on the edge of a road, turned on or lit at a certain time every night. ... For the corporation, see Waste Management Incorporated Waste management is the collection, transport, processing or disposal of waste materials, usually ones produced by human activity, in an effort to reduce their effect on human health or local amenity. ... Skytrain Bangkok. ... Vehicles are non-living means of transportation. ... Sheep walking along a road Walk redirects here. ... This racing bicycle is built using lightweight, shaped aluminium tubing and carbon fiber stays and forks. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anenomes) Placozoa (trichoplax) Subregnum Bilateria (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Orthonectida (parasitic to flatworms, echinoderms, etc. ...


See also

An expression used by government advisor, Dr. Simon Moores in a 1996, BBC television interview on digital inclusion, the digital divide is the socio-economic difference between communities in their access to computers and the Internet. ... Broadband in general refers to data transmission where multiple pieces of data are sent simultaneously to increase the effective rate of transmission. ... Rural crafts refers to the traditional crafts production that is carried on, simply for everyday practical use, in the agricultural countryside. ...

Bibliography

Hart, John Fraiser. The Rural Landscape, ISBN 0801857171.


External links

Look up rural in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

  Results from FactBites:
 
Canadian Rural Information Service - What is the population of rural Canada? (390 words)
This is based on a definition of rural areas as "sparsely populated lands lying outside urban areas" or in other words those areas with a population concentration of less than 1,000 and a population density of up to 400 per square kilometre.
Rural areas adjacent to cities gained population due to in-migration but rural areas non-adjacent to cities lost population due to out-migration.
Rural regions have a higher share of young persons under 20 years of age and a much lower share of people in the 20 to 39 age group.
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