'Country' in the Bible

Now in those days Mary set out [and] traveled with haste into the hill country, to a town of Judah,

And fear came on all those who lived near them, and in all the hill country of Judea all these events were discussed.

And after not many days, the younger son gathered everything [and] went on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth [by] living wastefully.

And [after] he had spent everything, there was a severe famine throughout that country, and he began to be in need.

And he went [and] hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs.

Therefore he said, "A certain nobleman traveled to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.

And as they led him away, they seized Simon, a certain [man] of Cyrene, who was coming from the country, [and] placed the cross on him, to carry [it] behind Jesus.