"Bridge of Sighs" is not a thinly populated book.
Mr. Vixay, who is in his 50s, has met this growing demand for animals like snakes, lizards and turtles from his base in the impoverished countryside of Laos, a thinly populated country bordering Vietnam and China and known for its widespread corruption.
It used to take five minutes to cross town; now the weight of oil traffic means it takes 20, according to one resident of this remote corner of a thinly populated state.
The immediate area surrounding the site of the Soviet nuclear accident is a thinly populated Ukrainian farming region of wooded steppe and small villages, although large cities, including the metropolitan center of Kiev, lie within a radius of 70 miles.
I've bought enough things to create a thinly populated widget below.
Within this framework, he has suggested strengthening the ties between the east and west of a vast, thinly populated country through a better electricity grid, a high-speed railway from Windsor to Quebec City and a national child-care programme.
Hors Satan, his sixth film and perhaps his most compelling, is set in a bleak, thinly populated, hauntingly beautiful corner of Pas de Calais near Boulogne, an area he's worked in several times before.
One was to transform the regions within 100 miles on either side of the border into a world of their own, a bleak wasteland thinly populated by men whose lives were wholly devoted to subsistence farming and organised banditry.
Namibia, a generally arid, thinly populated country to the northwest of South Africa, has been particularly hard hit; about 26 million hectares (64 million acres) of the country has been invaded by undesirable woody plants, which smother grazing areas.
Most of the students came from far-flung corners of the county, a wild region thinly populated by nomads and farmers who scrimp to send their children to school in the city.
Once upon a time, the online space was thinly populated with a kind of nerdy crème de la crème of pioneers.
