'Far Country' in the Bible

And he divided to them his substance. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, and took a journey into a far country, and there squandered away his substance, living riotously.

He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country, to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.

Then he spake this parable to the people: A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.