In a small country with vast rural areas, that means patients must travel to specialist centres.

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Yet its social importance is immense: in Mongolia's vast rural areas, it is the only bank that most people have ever walked into.

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The majority of the poor and least educated live in rural areas, with vast numbers concentrated in rural South and West Asia.

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High density areas served by a large number of cell sites might not be an issue in urban locations, but it will factor in a great deal once you are traveling into and around rural areas not served by a vast number of sites.

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As opposed to gentry politics, whose bastions lay in fashionable urban districts and college towns, Truman-style democracy reached into the vast suburban dreamscape--even into small towns and rural areas.

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