Question

What is a natural area and what is a rural area?

Answer 1

Natural areas tend to be those regions that are either protected from human activities or been lucky enough to not have had a huge human impact as yet. Rural tends to be regions that have been cleared of trees for farming.

Explanation:

There is no hard and fast definition between these two terms, but the aforementioned captures the differences pretty well. Some farmland is sometimes turned back into a "natural area" in which limited or no human activities are allowed.