outback

outback
noun
1. the remote and uncultivated wilderness areas of Australia or New Zealand, with very few inhabitants.

Mike and Barbara roughed it in the Australian outback for nearly two years.

2. Any remote, sparsely populated region.

Tom's old ranch in Texas is next to an arid outback.


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