Steadily declining economic opportunities and competition from sheep.
Rural
Rural
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With the exception of some major cities and towns, the Sahara is sparsely populated.
the whole country is sparsely populated
Outback
sparsely.
Sparsely usually means appearing only occasionally, for example a sparsely populated area has only a few people living there. The opposite would be things compacted into a small area, so the opposite of sparsely would be 'densely'
Antarctica is the most sparsely populated desert on earth.
Sparsley Populated
Sparsely populated simply means that there aren't very many people living there. Usually this is because the climate (desert, polar region) or the terrain (mountaintop, swamp) makes it difficult to support a large population.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sparsely populated means very few human inhabitants when compared to the land area in which they are living.New York would therefore be densely populated as compared to Greenland which is sparsely populated.
Sparsely populated areas - 0 to 9 people per square kilometer Eg. Sahara Desert - North America, Amazon forest area - Brazil, Northern Plain - Canada.