Coastal regions of a territory are often the most densely populated due to their greater economic productivity or colonial history. This leads to a contrast with the interior of the territory, which is (or was) sparsely populated. Examples include: * Australian Interior or Interior of Australia, a vast undefined area corresponding very approximately to land that is to and more from the coast. *

British Columbia Interior The British Columbia Interior, popularly referred to as the BC Interior or simply the Interior, is a geographic region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. While the exact boundaries are variously defined, the British Columbia Interior ...

, commonly called "The Interior", the inland areas of British Columbia, Canada, including but not limited to: ** The Interior Plateau, official name of the parts of British Columbia between the Coast Mountains and the Columbia Mountains and the Canadian Rockies, and south of the Interior Mountains * The

Columbia Plateau The Columbia Plateau is an important geology, geologic and geography, geographic region that lies across parts of the U.S. states of Washington (state), Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. It is a wide flood basalt plateau between the Cascade Range a ...

, Washington, USA, sometimes referred to as the "Interior Plateau" * The Alaska Interior, a largely wilderness area, encompassing most of the state * Interior Division, an administrative division of Sabah, east Malaysia, on the island of Borneo * U.S. Interior Highlands, a mountainous region spanning eastern Oklahoma, western and northern Arkansas, southern Missouri, and the extreme southeast corner of Kansas * Interior Plains, a vast physiographic region that spreads across the Laurentian craton of North America

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