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Rural areas
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Description
Rural areas represent land-based areas outside urban areas. They are classified as rural settlements or other rural and include rural settlements, district territories that are not included in major, large, medium, or small urban areas; and inlets, islands, inland waters, and oceanic waters that are outside urban areas.
See also ‘Rural settlement and ‘Urban area’ in this definitions group.
en-NZ