![The aussie
bush](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Australian_bush.jpg/1200px-
Australian_bush.jpg) I don't know if it would just be the Australian forest,
or something else. I would like this for a speaking task at school, and I
cannot find any good translations.
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What is the Japanese word for the Australian bush/outback?
When searching on the Internet with the keyword " **雑木林{ぞうきばやし}** ", I found a
lot of photos to introduce below.  
Is "雑木林｛ぞうきばやし｝" the word you want? [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RxiCM.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RxiCM.jpg)

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# EDIT

I think that the reason why my original answer got a down-vote is because the
answer was insufficient, so I'll add some information.

(1) The photo presented by the questioner may be very misleading.  
If you actually search for "Australian outback" on the internet, you can find
photographs of wasteland with less rain (let's call them as Photo A) as
introduced below.  
Photo A is quite different from the photo presented by the questioner (let's
call it Photo B). Also, there is no scenery like Photo A in Japan. However,
the scenery like Photo B seems to be in Japan.  
I think that it looks like the scenery I searched for by the key word with
"雑木林｛ぞうきばやし｝" I introduced in my original answer.

(2) **There is no Japanese word** equivalent to "Australian outback" in the
usual sense. Naturally it is not called "雑木林" either.  
As you probably know, words are not created unless objects corresponding to
them exist.  
In Japan where there is no scenery like Photo A, the word expressing it is
unnecessary unless it is necessary for translation or academic use. "アウトバック"
in Chocolate's answer seems to be Japanese at first glance, but this is not a
common Japanese but an academic term or the like. Ordinary Japanese people
including me have never used the word "アウトバック" or they cannot imagine Photo A
from this word.

(3) When considering what kind of words Photo A corresponds to in Japanese, I
can think of "乾燥地帯{かんそうちたい} _Dry Zone_ ", "荒｛あ｝れ野｛の｝ / 荒｛あ｝れ地｛ち｝ _Wilderness_
" and "荒野｛こうや｝ _Wasted Land_ ", etc.  
In the explanatory sentence in Chocolate's answer, words "内地｛ないち｝" and
"奥地｛おくち｝" are used.  
In general, it is difficult to imagine Photo A from the word "内地｛ないち｝" in
Japanese. There are implications of "ジャングル _jungle_ / 密林｛みつりん｝ _jungle_ " and
"a place where people are hard to approach" in "奥地｛おくち｝" in Japanese.  
In any case, the image of wasteland that you can see far away in Photo A is
not in Japanese "奥地". Therefore, "Australian outback" is quite a lot different
from the Japanese word "内地" or "奥地".

(4) As the word associated with Photo A presented by the questioner, I
introduced the word "雑木林" in my first answer. When searching for the meaning
of "a place or a forest where people seldom approach" in Japanese words,
"密林｛みつりん｝ _Jungle_ ", "自然林｛しぜんりん｝ _Natural forest_ ", "森林｛しんりん｝ _Forest_ ",
"樹海｛じゅかい｝ _Broad expanse of dense woodland_ " and the like come out.  
However, using these words as keywords and examining them on the Internet,
they have images completely different from "Australian outback".

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tAKJd.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tAKJd.jpg)
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I think it'd normally be translated as...

> 「アウトバック」
> ([Wiki](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A6%E3%83%88%E3%83%90%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF))
>
> 「アウトバック」, 「オーストラリアの[奥地]{おくち}, [内陸部]{ないりくぶ}, or [内地]{ないち}」
> ([コトバンク](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A6%E3%83%88%E3%83%90%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF-422080#E5.A4.A7.E8.BE.9E.E6.9E.97.20.E7.AC.AC.E4.B8.89.E7.89.88),
> [研究社新英和中辞典](https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/outback))
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