rural translations

Outback & Country (Rural) Translations in Other Languages

Words for ‘country’ or ‘rural’ in other languages:

  • Australia – ‘bush’, ‘country’, ‘the sticks’
  • U.S. – ‘the west’
  • Argentina – ‘campero’

Words and expressions for ‘outback’ in other languages:

The word ‘outback’ is commonly used by residents of coastal Australia and those in the tourism industry to refer to sparsely settled areas such as the interior and remote coastal regions such as Cape York Peninsula and the Kimberleys.

Australians living out in the sticks usually refer to the place they live as ‘the bush’.


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  • English (urban Australia) – ‘outback’
  • Dutch (Nederlands) – ‘verafgelegen schaars bewoonde streek’
  • Français (France) – ‘brousse’
  • Deutsch (German) – ‘hinterland’, ‘busch’
  • Italiano (Italy) – ‘provincia’, ‘entroterra’
  • Português (Portugal) – ‘terras no interior da Austràlia’
  • Español (Spanish) – ‘interior’, ‘el campo’ (Argentina)
  • Svenska (Swedish) – ‘vildmark, ‘obygd’

The above translations are from Wikipedia which has additional translations using other language scripts.

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