In a parallel trend, the burden of world poverty is also shifting from sparsely populated rural areas to densely populated cities.
Brazil will gather aircraft debris on Fernando DE Noronha, a sparsely populated volcanic archipelago and nature reserve off its northeastern coast.
Mayaguana, a sparsely populated island of crystal seas and white sand, was set for a $1.8 billion resort with the world's longest airport runway.
She guesses that the high density of whales off the eastcoast of Australia affords more opportunity for new songs to arise than in asparsely populated region such as French Polynesia.
These sandy, snow-strewn wastelands bordering the Gobi desert are sparsely populated.
Paddle through parts of the 300-mile Scottish Sea Kayak Trail, along the sparsely populated western coast, with Wilderness Scotland.
A controversial Agriculture Department loan program that Mr. Andrew oversees is supposed to help expand broadband service to sparsely populated areas.
Relative to its size, the city is sparsely populated.
A small fort: the western states are roomy, but sparsely populated.
An ocean of green, Mongolia is the most sparsely populated country in the world, with just under three million people in a landmass larger than Alaska.
Again the land is flat; the countryside sparsely populated.
That came in Dantewada, a remote, forested, dirt-poor and sparsely populated district in the south of Chhattisgarh state.
In the capital, not much more than an hour on the road gets you out into the stark, sparsely populated beauty of the Western Hills, with the Great Wall thrown in as a bonus.
Or the precious stuff may fall in areas that are sparsely populated or where there is no infrastructure for capturing and storing it for use during dry spells.
The quake's deep, offshore epicenter muffled its impact on a sparsely populated nation.
BEING a vast and sparsely populated country, mobile phones are important in Canada.
Queensland played little part in the row, since its stretch of the Darling was sparsely populated at the time.
For a vast, poor and sparsely populated land, anxiety about a neighbour with over 450 times as many people and an economy that has been booming for three decades is perhaps inevitable.
Protests appear to have erupted all across the sparsely populated nation of 6m people, but most intensely in the eastern region of Cyrenaica, which has a history of resistance to Mr Qadhafi.
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