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Upland, city (1990 pop. 63,374), San Bernardino co., S Calif., in a citrus-fruit region at the foot of the San Gabriel Mts.; inc. 1906. Citrus fruits and grapes are packed and processed in the city. Paint, orchard heaters, auto parts, and feed products are also made. Upland has gradually become more urbanized, and its population has grown rapidly since the 1970s.
upland
an area of high or relatively high ground
upland [′əp·lənd]
(geography)
An extensive region of high land.
The higher ground of a region, in contrast to a valley, plain, or other low-lying land.
The elevated land above the low areas along a stream or between hills.
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Some two hundred feet below, a brawling upland stream stood for the moat, and for the enemy there was on the opposite side of the valley a great green company of trees, settled like a cloud slope upon slope, making all haste to cross the river and ascend the heights where I stood.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
He is refreshing himself, in the midst of dusty, sophisticated Paris, with memories of their old, delightful existence--vagabonde, libre, agreste, pastorale--in their upland valley.
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When they came out of the woods, all his attention was engrossed by the view of the fallow land on the upland, in parts yellow with grass, in parts trampled and checkered with furrows, in parts dotted with ridges of dung, and in parts even ploughed.
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