Liberal Democrat health spokesman Jamie Stone, the MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, said an urban-rural divide in provision remains.

BBC: Dentist

What explains this pronounced and hugely significant partisan divide between urban and nonurban areas?

FORBES: What Explains The Partisan Divide Between Urban And Non-Urban Areas

The declining ratios were witnessed across the divide, rural, urban, females and males.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

However, it also suggests that such convergence can be expected to take place over many decades and, in the short run, enhanced rural-urban migration might even widen the income divide between the countryside and cities.

ECONOMIST: Letters

They often invade productive farms, or divide up land on the edge of towns for urban plots.

ECONOMIST: Venezuela

The issue reflects the regionalization of America's deep partisan divide, with splits in many states between populous urban areas that tend to be more liberal and larger, less populated rural areas that generally are more conservative.

CNN: Some GOP-led states look at electoral vote changes

Many Arabs viewed Husseini as one who united rural and urban dwellers, while others among the Christian and Muslim communities regarded him as someone who also tried to bridge the divide with Israelis.

CNN: Husseini's death 'a blow for peace'

It would be better by far to divide Britain into nominal provinces and have all of the directly elected councillors for the metropolitan areas, other urban areas and the county councils gather together and elect from within their own ranks representatives to go to the upper house.

ECONOMIST: Letters