"high country" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1907, Stewart Edward White, chapter 13, in Arizona Nights:",
          "text": "We had topped the high country, too, and had started down the other side of the mountains that ran out on the promontory.",
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          "ref": "1915, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 13, in The Rock of Chickamauga:",
          "text": "While Lookout Mountain was the loftiest summit, some of the other ridges rose almost as high. . . . September had now come and the winds were growing crisper in the high country.",
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        "Terrain that is at a relatively high elevation — generally, higher than foothills but not above the timberline — consisting of mountainous areas or elevated expanses of plain."
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