"Mangiano riso in quel paese?"

[saintsauveur]

un paese is also the Italian for a village, another example of the arbitrary nature of some of the answers

[niv.aloni.]

It is interesting that also in english the word "country" has the two meanings

[a-muktar]

Si. Con banana :P

[Rosi342204]

Paese is town not country

[Domleschg]

It is both. See: http://de.pons.com/%C3%BCbersetzung?q=paese&l=enit&in=&lf=it

Also see the discussion above.