This isolated, sparsely settled region provides summer pasturage for livestock.
Decision Point is just one of the sites included in a proclamation signed by President Bill Clinton in January that turned this rugged, sparsely settled region dotted with cattle and nuclear missile silos into the Missouri Breaks National Monument, one of several such monuments Mr. Clinton created at the end of his term.
Most of these peoples inhabit the Chittagong Hill Tracts in the southeast, the most sparsely settled area of the country.
Most of the remainder of the population consists of scores of smaller groups, many living in sparsely settled inland regions, as well a notable minority of Chinese descent, concentrated primarily in larger towns and urban areas.
Ciudad Bolívar has long been the commercial centre of the Llanos (plains), the huge, sparsely settled grassland region drained by the Orinoco.
Baluchistan: Restive, Remote A large, sparsely settled and natural-gasrich region with a clan-based population of ethnic Baluchis and Pashtuns.
The relatively unproductive and sparsely settled areas of the central region, the Cross River region, and the Lake Chad basin have tenuous road links that carry only a few trucks a day.
The central region is the most sparsely settled and least developed part of Nigeria, comprising about two-fifths of the country's land area but supporting less than one-fifth of the total population.
The barren Wolds and waterlogged plains of the region were sparsely settled during the Middle Ages and served mainly as rough pasture for sheep.
Similarly, there are few reports of malaria in highland parts of the Amazonian side of the Andes during the early 20th century, likely because the region was sparsely settled.
