The Largest Subdivision is the Least Populated

Canada’s Nunavut Territory delineates the most extreme example of this demographic dichotomy, spanning a massive 1,997,923 km² yet sustaining a sparse population of only 36,858 residents—a near-vacuum density of approximately 0.018 people per km². This pattern of expansive geographic footprint versus limited human settlement persists in Niger’s Agadez Region, where 487,620 individuals occupy 667,799 km², resulting in a ratio of just 0.73 people per km². South Africa’s Northern Cape Province distributes 1,355,629 inhabitants across 372,889 km² (3.64 people per km²), mirroring the arid stratification found in Sudan’s Northern State, which encompasses 348,765 km² with 936,255 citizens at 2.68 people per km². Finally, Turkmenistan’s Balkan Region reveals a comparable density of 3.80 people per km², housing 529,895 people within a substantial 139,270 km² territory.