"upcountry" is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that usually means “inland or away from the coast; in a rural area.” For example, “We took a day trip upcountry to visit some of the smaller villages.”.
Blocked roads and bridges, lack of rail and small upcountry airfields, coupled with rain and snow, made swift access impossible except by helicopter.Criticism is cheap and panders to the distraught, whereas relief is, in part, achieved by peace of mind.
Kikuyus trying to enter Kibera were dragged out and beaten up by Luos.The violence was, if anything, worse upcountry, where gangs of young men from the Kalenjin group turned on their Kikuyu neighbours in the Rift Valley.
It has already secured access to the Indian Ocean, both by road and by a pipeline that should pump 10% of China's total oil requirement upcountry to Kunming from the port city of Kyaukpyu in Myanmar.
In upcountry towns, concrete buildings of one or two stories with tin roofs predominate.
When the upcountry harvests fail, the sons and daughters of rice farmers' arrive here, bleary-eyed, on the overnight trains, to be swept up by those seeking cleaners for hotels, drivers for taxis, girls for massage parlours, hostesses for bars.
Gambians especially those in Banjul and upcountry towns wear both traditional West African clothing as well as European-style dress.
His Anabasis ("Upcountry March") in particular was highly regarded in antiquity and had a strong influence on Latin literature.
The Communist Party, outlawed after a bloody uprising in Athens in 1945 & a bitter civil war upcountry in the years 1946 through 1949, has been legitimized as a party like all others.
The taxi was late, and when it arrived, Hector, knowing the condition of the upcountry roads, insisted on examining its tires, which he pronounced unfit.
Tourists stopped here for gas and water, before driving into the upcountry, Maui's lush inland region.
"Thailand has essentially had a system whereby the Bangkok elite didn't mind an upcountry government just so long as the Bangkok elite could decide when that government had to leave office," said Karl D. Jackson, head of the Southeast Asia studies program at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
