'Country' in the Bible

Here's a list of their names: Ben-hur from the hill country of Ephraim;

Solomon also employed 70,000 heavy-lift workers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country.

Pharaoh asked him, "But have you lacked anything from me that would make you want to go back to your own country?" "No," he answered, "but I still really must leave."

Later on, Jeroboam fortified Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. He also expanded from there and built Penuel.