flatland

[ flat-land ]

/ ˈflætˌlænd /

a region that lacks appreciable topographic relief.

Nearby words

An Americanism dating back to 1725–35; flat¹ + -land

flat·land·er, noun

Here is Dorothy's Kansas, but also the flatland of Sitting Bull, Bonnie and Clyde, and In Cold Blood.
Book Bag: Timothy Egan’s Five Favorite Travel Books|Timothy Egan|October 23, 2012|DAILY BEAST
We may picture the inhabitants of flatland as moving either on the surface of a plane or between two parallel and adjacent planes.
The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.]|John Phin
The men of Flatland are about to feed, and will share their supper.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
This, however, did not apply to the waters lying directly around the Poloe and Flatland groups.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne

At what precise point it came I don't quite know, for I was snatched up out of the dull "flatland" of facts.
The Lightning Conductor|C. N. Williamson
Well, that is just what we see when one of our triangular or other acquaintances comes towards us in Flatland.
Flatland|Edwin Abbott Abbott