"wide country" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a nation or region that is very large in terms of its area or the number of people living in it. For example, "Russia is a wide country with a population of over 140 million people."
Following many tales of lost souls wandering through Britain's heaths, Robert Penn Warren crafts an American story of finding one's place in this wide country, strung together by highways.
In other people's eyes, he is a little boy in overalls, in a wide country summer, where the fields and trees are a dozen different shades of green and the road to the house where the queen lives glows a beckoning violet-gray.
Given the wide country coverage of the dataset used in this paper, we could not use the more detailed OECD indicators of employment protection legislation that indeed focus on OECD and key emerging economies (see OECD 2013).
Ever since the Laurel-based trainer's 3-year-old filly Gypsy Judy won the Wide Country Stakes on Feb. 16, Graham has been pointing toward Pimlico.
During that time of turmoil, fear, sadness, and terror, no matter where we live in this wide country, we were collectively and suddenly New Yorkers.
So perhaps that essential difference in mission- and that there is a whole wide country beyond Manhattan full of people creating theater in general - is why a reporter for The New York Times hasn't heard much about political theater in America.
You may not be fond of Mr Magnolia but the wider country is.
The mood among the pilgrims to Houghton, as in the wider country, was mixed.
Scots are well represented in the political, intellectual and cultural life of the wider country.
His attempts to distract those in his own party and the wider country from the fall out will fail.
Now 18 years on, tourism has returned to Kibuye in a recovery that symbolises the wider country's painful progress to reconciliation.
