Despite being a heavily patrolled police state, Iran has long borders that stretch across mountains and wasteland.
Are Israeli Agents Assassinating Iranian Scientists? A New Book Argues|Dan Raviv, Yossi Melman|July 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The Confederate force was already starting withdrawal, battery by battery, as the wasteland of the fire lighted them on their way.
Ride Proud, Rebel!|Andre Alice Norton
They walked for two hours, the Disan setting a cruel pace, before they reached a wasteland of jumbled rock.
Planet of the Damned|Harry Harrison
Our world of Rajj is a wasteland where once we and our fellows lived.
Brood of the Dark Moon|Charles Willard Diffin
Our whole Northern Hemisphere, where our greatest nations were, was devastated; much of it is wasteland to this day.
Uller Uprising|Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
Victorious feudal lords induced farmers to come to their territory and to cultivate the wasteland.
A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.]|Wolfram Eberhard
British Dictionary definitions for wasteland
wasteland
/ (ˈweɪstˌlænd) /
noun
a barren or desolate area of land, not or no longer used for cultivation or building
a region, period in history, etc, that is considered spiritually, intellectually, or aesthetically barren or desolateAmerican television is a cultural wasteland