The least populated places in the world are alpine regions, deserts, and polar regions, with Greenland being the least populous nation. Large rainforests and deserts are also sparsely populated. Antarctica has no permanent residents and very few visitors.
The least populated places in the world are alpine regions, deserts, and polar regions, in order of decreasing population. Some other regions, such as the dense rainforest or eastern Russia, are also among the least populated places, with an average population of one person per ten square kilometers or less. The least populous nation in the world is Greenland, which is two million square kilometers large and has a population of just 60,000, making its average population density just one person per 40 square kilometers.
Every continent except Europe has vast desert and rainforest regions that are among the least populated places outside of Antarctica. The largest deserts in the world include the Sahara Desert in Africa, the Atacama Desert in Chile, the Arabian Desert in Saudi Arabia, the Gobi Desert in China and the Western Australian Desert in Australia. Large sparsely populated rainforest regions include the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, which has some tribes that have never had contact with the outside world; the rainforest of Indonesia’s Borneo, which also has isolated tribes; and the African rainforest of the Congo, which is located in the heart of Africa.
Least populated places associated with polar climates include most of Canada, Greenland and Siberia. These regions are extremely cold and are mostly populated by indigenous tribes and people looking for oil and minerals. Permafrost means all water pipes have to go above ground, or else they freeze, and in the more extreme latitudes, there’s a polar treeline, which means no trees will even grow. This is certainly not a hospitable climate and these regions are populated accordingly.
The only least populated place on Earth is the huge land of Antarctica, the southernmost, coldest, windiest and driest continent in the world. This polar wilderness has only about 4,000 visitors during the summer, only 1,000 during the winter, and no permanent residents. During winter, the average population density is one person for every 14,400 square kilometers. Most of the Antarctic plateau is a completely featureless landscape devoid of life, even at the bacterial level.
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