Until you get almost on top of the city, the countryside is quite sparsely populated.
There are barricades across the city, extending into the countryside.
The countryside dominates, and the city is an afterthought.
Hundreds of people were killed, the city was destroyed and hundreds of thousands fled into the countryside.
City-dwellers have been told not to visit the countryside.
And before nightfall, too, a thrill of horror went through the whole watching nervous countryside.
German higher education is as diverse as its countryside, cities, and towns.
Frequently they came from countryside families too poor to feed them.
Never mind that on weekends the campus was as unpopulated as the surrounding countryside.
Although becoming less common, these are still woven in countryside villages.
British Dictionary definitions for countryside
countryside
/ˈkʌntrɪˌsaɪd/
noun
1.
a rural area or its population
Word Origin and History for countryside
n.
mid-15c., literally "one side of a country" (a valley, a mountain range, etc.), from country + side (n.); hence, "any tract of land having a natural unity" (1727).