Sparsely populated and landlocked, the nation is overwhelmingly agrarian.

* Chilson – Sparsely populated location near the town's geographic center on NY-74.

# The rural additions: Sparsely populated constituencies get more mandates than the population would suggest.

Sparsely populated, and with only five settlements ( Lake Tekapo, population < 500 ; Mount Cook Village, population < 150 ; Twizel, population < 1, 000 ; Omarama, population < 400 and Fairlie, population < 800 ), the Mackenzie Country comprises an area of huge glacial lakes and snow-capped mountains, particularly favoured by tourists and skiers.

Sparsely populated even today, this isolation may have been a blessing in disguise, as Taitung mostly escaped the urbanization and pollution that have come to plague much of the island's lowland areas.

Sparsely populated, it is primarily a farming community.

Sparsely populated until the late 1980s, Kabaty witnessed rapid growth in the 1990s and especially 2000s.

Sparsely populated countryside at the time of founding of the Turkish republic, bağcılar means " vine growers " in Turkish and was known as " Yeşilbağ " ( Green Vineyard in Turkish ).

Sparsely populated former Spanish provinces were denied independent statehood and instead merged with neighboring areas.

Sparsely populated provinces were denied independent statehood and instead merged with neighboring areas.

Sparsely furnished with a few chairs and sofas around the walls, the Pillared Room is usually used to receive guests before they go into the State Dining Room.

Sparsely inhabited pastures and vast virgin beech-fir forests are major resources.

Sparsely inhabited during the 17th and 18th centuries, the southeast section of Bergen County had grown by the early 19th century to the point where it was deemed necessary to designate it a separate county.

Sparsely spotted with dark purple-or red-brown, they measure 23 x 18 mm.

Sparsely inhabited throughout much of their history, the Pontine Marshes were the subject of extensive land reclamation work performed periodically.

* Roger C. Baker & Glyn Harman, " Sparsely totient numbers ," Annales de la faculte des sciences de Toulouse Ser.

Armenia is the second most densely populated of the former Soviet republics because of its small size.

A sparsely populated, arid country, Botswana has nonetheless managed to incorporate much of its interior into the national economy.

The Indian breed, well known for its ability to survive in the tropics, adapted quickly to Brazil, and soon populated large areas, considerably improving Brazilian beef cattle breeding.

When the database is ready ( all its data structures and other needed components are defined ) it is typically populated with initial application's data ( database initialization, which is typically a distinct project ; in many cases using specialized DBMS interfaces that support bulk insertion ) before making it operational.

The economic disparity, impression that West Pakistan despite being less populated than East Pakistan was ruling and prospering at its cost further popularize the Bengali nationalism.

Of all the islands belonging to Grenada, only two are of consequence: Carriacou, with a population of a few thousand, and its neighbor Petit Martinique, roughly 40 kilometers northeast of Grenada and populated by some 700 inhabitants.

The area of the later city of Gdynia shared its history with Pomerelia ( Eastern Pomerania ); in prehistoric times it was the center of Oksywie culture ; it was later populated by Slavs with some Baltic Prussian influences.

From the Rajput Kingdom of Sarsatti, he visited Hansi in India, describing it as " among the most beautiful cities, the best constructed and the most populated ; it is surrounded with a strong wall, and its founder is said to be one of the great infidel kings, called Tara ".

Java is the world's most populous and most densely populated island which is located in Indonesia and home to 60 % of its population.

After Hamas assaulted a neighborhood in Gaza mostly populated by the Fatah-aligned Hilles clan in response to their attack on Hamas which killed six of its members, the Hilles clan was relocated to Jericho on 4 August 2008.

Drafted by a treaty and a bill of sale, and constituted between 1820 and 1858, the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu ( as it was first called ) combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.

Anti-Lebanon is more arid, especially in its northern parts, than Mount Lebanon and is consequently less productive and more thinly populated.

Nicaragua is the least densely populated nation in Central America, with a demographic similar in size to its smaller neighbors.

The fact that Pytheas lived centuries before the colonization of Iceland and Greenland by European agriculturalists makes them less likely candidates, as Thule was populated and its soil was tilled.

Only approximately 1, 000 of its islands are populated, and fewer than one-half of these are larger than 2. 5 square kilometers.

Transport in Sudan during the early 1990s included an extensive railroad system that served the more important populated areas except in the far south, a meager road network ( very little of which consisted of all-weather roads ), a natural inland waterway — the Nile River and its tributaries — and a national airline that provided both international and domestic service.

The Fergana Valley, the most densely populated region in Central Asia irrigated by the Syr Darya in its upper course, spreads across the north-eastern arm of Uzbekistan and Northern Tajikistan.

While East Malaysia is less populated and less developed than West Malaysia, its land mass is larger and it has notably more natural resources, chiefly oil and gas reserves.

Since Mycenae was the capital of a state that ruled, or dominated, much of the eastern Mediterranean world, the rulers must have placed their stronghold in this less populated and more remote region for its defensive value.

The population of Palermo urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 855, 285, while its metropolitan area is the fifth most populated in Italy with around 1. 2 million people.

The region has a population of around 5. 8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy ; its total area of 13, 590 km² makes it the most densely populated region in the country.

At one extreme are the systems of upper New York State, where libraries in two or more counties combine to serve a large, sparsely populated area.

Densely populated, this area includes the cities of Istanbul and Bursa, Turkey's largest and fourth largest cities respectively.

To the north and west, the topography is mountainous ; this is the area of the five Angus Glens, is sparsely populated and the main industry is hill-farming.

This area is well populated, with the larger towns and the city of Dundee on the coast.

Amok typically takes place in a well populated or crowded area.

The shores of the strait are heavily populated as the city of Istanbul ( with a metropolitan area in excess of 11 million inhabitants ) straddles it.

The area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was populated as early as 80, 000 years ago, as shown by the 1988 discovery of the Semliki harpoon at Katanda, one of the oldest barbed harpoons ever found, and which is believed to have been used to catch giant river catfish.

Conceptually, a GIF file describes a fixed-sized graphical area ( the " logical screen ") populated with zero or more " images ".

The Great Victoria Desert is a sparsely populated desert area in Western Australia and South Australia.

In summer in particular this road can become very congested rendering the journey between the bridge and South Hayling ( the most populated area ) anything from 30 minutes to an hour.

The Jutes populated the area of Kent, the Isle of Wight and an area of the adjacent mainland that would later be part of Wessex.

The area of Indonesia is populated by peoples of various migrations, creating a diversity of cultures, ethnicities, and languages.

Communication routes between these small centres only became populated later and created a much less dense urban morphology than, for instance, the area around Liège where the old town was there to direct migratory flows.

None of the populated plains or mountain basins are extensive in area.

Christianity took hold in the city during the Byzantine era and the area was heavily populated.

It is one of the most sparsely populated regions in the area and is mainly inhabited by people of Indo-Aryan and Tibetan descent.

The village of Kinglassie lies to the north of the Lochty Burn, 3 miles ( 5 km ) southwest of Glenrothes in Fife and 3 miles southeast of Perth and Kinross district. Kinglassie ( Pronounced Kin-glassie ) village has been populated for thousands of years, in 830 AD the village was known as Kinglace, the ancient Picts used to live in this area.

The prominence of the reactor's containment building in a densely populated area has been controversial, but MIT maintains that it is well-secured.

" No point in the country is in a non-incorporated area, and which explains why some municipalities in sparsely populated areas such as the Amazon region can be larger than many sovereign countries.