Rural
Noun and の adjective
いなか
田舎道で死にかけのフクロネズミを見ました。
I saw a dying possum on a country road.
A rice paddy and a cottage. This is the image of the countryside to me. This is rural. Just cottages and rice paddies...
The reading doesn't really make sense for the kanji, and is an exception for sure. Just think about how when you're in the countryside you're in 中 (いなか) of nowhere.