'Country' in the Bible

These [are] their names: Ben-Hur [was] in the hill country of Ephraim.

Solomon had seventy thousand {common laborers} and eighty thousand stone craftsmen in the hill country.

Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and he resided in it. Then he went out from there and built Penuel.

The one who dies for Ahab in the city, the dogs will eat; the one who dies in the open country, the birds of heaven will eat."