The phrase "a less developed area" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a region or location that has not reached the same level of economic, social, or infrastructural development as others.
Example: "The government is focusing on improving the infrastructure in a less developed area to enhance the quality of life for its residents."
Alternatives: "an underdeveloped region" or "a disadvantaged area".
Located about 300 miles south of Moscow, Voronezh appealed to Mr. Tobin because it was in a less developed area.
The organization, for instance, can trap an animal and relocate it to a less developed area, or collar and release the animal and track its movements via GPS.
"At some point, we're going to have to say we can't accommodate any more; I mean, we're not going to have a 100-story building over there," said Gerry Witt, a founding church member who has recently put his house on the market so he and his wife, Carole, can move to a less developed area on the western slope of the Rockies.
4--Traffic will be gridlocked, and working people will be forced to move to a less developed area, thereby compounding urban sprawl.
Saomai struck a less developed area of China, which limited insured damage to around ¥400 500 million (RMB, $50.5 63 million USD).
The results provide the first quantitative information on human travel patterns in modern China, and suggest that a pandemic emerging in a less developed area of rural China might spread geographically sufficiently slowly for containment to be feasible, while spatial spread in the more economically developed areas might be expected to be much more rapid, making containment more difficult.
The captors took Mr. Pearl down a dirt road to a less-developed area nearby, stopping at the nursery.
As Campo Road, SR 94 crosses the Sweetwater River before entering a less-developed area, winding through the communities of Jamul, Dulzura and intersecting the north end of SR 188 north of Tecate.
"You shouldn't have to flee a slightly less developed area in order to have the technology community around you," she said.
We investigated the accessibility of reproductive health information and contraceptives in a relatively less developed area of rural central India and assessed the risks facing young unmarried men.
Just to the north lies a rich but less developed area called the Pinedale Anticline, a name that refers to the geological equivalent of an underground hill, where the gas is stored.
