'Country' in the Bible

Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah,

Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.

There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.

They arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee.

When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.

All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. He entered into the boat, and returned.

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

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

He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.

Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the midst of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein.

When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it after Jesus.