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• r  to or in the interior of a country or region

• My father is living in this up-country sectionhis residence for thirty years in its most Communist-infested area.
• But its up-country isolation is part of the beauty of this bar and restaurantand getting here is not just a journey in space but time as well.
• Nothing spoke to the pre-crisis boom in Thailand's fortunes as eloquently as the fleet of trucks plying Bangkok's smoggy streets and dusty, up-country roads.