Countryside vs. Country — What's the Difference?

A rural region.

A country is a distinct territorial body or political entity (i.e. a nation).

The inhabitants of a rural region.

A nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory

An area located outside of towns and cities; an area that is not urban or suburban; a rural area.

Districts and small settlements outside large urban areas or the capital

Such part of a larger area.

An area or region with regard to its physical features

A rural landscape.

Short for country music

A particular rural district; a country neighborhood.

A nation or state.

Rural regions

The territory of a nation or state; land.

The people of a nation or state; populace

The land of a person's birth or citizenship

A region, territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture

An area or expanse outside cities and towns; a rural area

The people of a district who are eligible for jury service.

A jury.

(Informal) Country music.

Of, relating to, or typical of the country

Of or relating to country music.

(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.

A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, speakers of the same language etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.

The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area; a sovereign state.

A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.

Ellipsis of country music

(mining) The rock through which a vein runs.

From or in the countryside or connected with it.

Of or connected to country music.

Originating in India rather than being imported from Europe or elsewhere.

A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.

Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.

The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country.

A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.

The rock through which a vein runs.

Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.

Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.

Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.

The territory occupied by a nation;

A politically organized body of people under a single government;

The people who live in a nation or country;

An area outside of cities and towns;

A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography);