In addition, it is well-known in the urban research literature that population density exhibits heterogeneous geographic distribution patterns [16], typically reflecting a more densely populated urban core and a more sparsely populated periphery.
That fact lies behind today's complaints over government policy, because in the laudable process of re-organising flood defence funds to protect the most populous areas, cash has been stripped from existing defences protecting more sparsely populated areas.
The government grants might encourage power companies to install it in more sparsely populated areas.
But at the west end of the proposed new runways the land is more sparsely populated.
The dryer northern areas of Kenya are far more sparsely populated and the road networks are less dense.
Sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis), spread by the tsetse fly, is prevalent in the more sparsely populated tsetse-infected areas.
The last major fire in the area, he said, was in 1964, when the area was far more sparsely populated.
Mrs. Clinton spent much of the early part of the year working huge rallies in the state's major news media markets in the belief that the coverage would reverberate into the more sparsely populated areas.
Conservative dominance in rural areas and small towns helped the Republican party maintain its Senate majority in the elections, because there are more sparsely populated red states than highly urbanized blue ones.
The death toll remains below that of the 2008 quake, owing, it seems, to the combination of a relatively less intense tremor and the fact that the area is more sparsely populated, with people living in smaller buildings.
In parts, the Great Plains are more sparsely populated now than they were in the late 19th century, when the government declared them to be deserted.A big reason is improvements in farming technology.
