with much land and few people(dì guǎng rén xī)

with much land and few people

It is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d ì Gu ǎ NgR é nx ī, which refers to a large place with few people. It comes from the book of Han, geography II.

The origin of Idioms

"Geography records of the Han Dynasty" says: "the customs are quite different, the land is wide and the people are rare."

Idiom usage

It refers to a large place with few people. example because of its vast territory and sparse population, it can not be rescued. The eighty third chapter of Water Margin by Shi Naian in Ming Dynasty

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] rarely seen and uninhabited [antonym] narrow and dense

Chinese PinYin : dì guǎng rén xī