ex|ur|bi|a

ex|ur|bi|a «ehks UR bee uh», noun.

a region between the suburbs and the country inhabited by exurbanites: »

One feels that he carried not only a notebook but a tape recorder with him on his safari into Exurbia (Phyllis McGinley).

╂[< ex-¹ + Latin urbs, urbis city, patterned on suburbia]