a scarcely populated area; a small population for [over] a large area of land; a vast territory with a sparse population; a wide area with a thin population; an area with much land and few people
Example Sentences:
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The wasteland of the north is scarcely populated 北方的大荒原地广人稀。
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Lantau island is large , and relatively unpopulated by hong kong standards 在人口稠密的香港来说，大屿山可算是地广人稀。
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Population : with a population density of 55 people per square km , lijiang ' s population is small 人口：全市共112 . 42万人，人口密度每平方公里约为55人，可谓地广人稀。
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The people were so few and the earth was so big . . . the earth was giving so much that those people could not even absorb it all ; most of it was going to waste 那时可谓地广人稀… …地球供给那么富足，人们享用不尽；很大部分没有享用的，就白白浪费掉。
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The last consideration is particularly important , given that many examples elsewhere have demonstrated that small populations with much bigger geographical sizes do not necessarily result in more sustainable development 在其他地广人稀的地区，他们虽然拥有广阔的土地，却未必能够获得更佳的可持续发展效益，由此管理效能的重要性可见一斑。
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Because of the region sparsely inhabited and traffic inconvenience , the development of the county area is the main base of the regional economic development . therefore , when we study the regional economic of the northwest region of the sichuan province , we must strengthen the study of the county area economic 由于本地区地广人稀、交通不便、县域面积大,县域发展是地区经济发展的主要基础,因此,研究川西北地区经济就需要加强对县域经济的研究。
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The development of tourism is similar with the development mode of the post - industry phase in that they both aim at protecting the resource and the environment . tourist development can manage to help an area to realize the " catching - up " development by leaping over the industrialization phase . and it can also make the redistribution of fortune from region to region possible , thus the poorer area ' s participation of fair distribution of affluence is not unreachable 由于该区地广人稀，旅游资源丰富，旅游线路长，必须根据游客的行为规律及旅游地的不同性质进行科学合理的产业空间布局，由于游客会根据时间成本和经费成本等考虑在哪些景区、城镇消费，有的城镇和景区是目的地，而有的城镇和景区是过境地，在目的地和过境地，游客的消费行为也会不一样，这就决定了沿途的旅游产业的空间布局。
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Although it is with relatively rich water resources in this area , it is still not practical to resolve power consumption problem in rural area by extending power grids due to its poor water resources development conditions , uneven water resources existence and its scattering population residence for its wide land with little population 其水能资源虽较丰富，但开发条件较差，且分布不均衡，加之地广人稀，农牧民居住分散，依靠电网延伸供电解决农牧区用电问题极不现实。
