a vast territory with a sparse population(dì kuàng rén xī)

a vast territory with a sparse population

It is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d à Ku à NgR é nx à, which means a big place and few people. It comes from the book of Han, geography records II, written by Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Idiom usage

It refers to many places but few people

Examples

Fifteen miles away, it's called Jieshan. It's the place where heroes come and go in the green forest. (Feng Menglong, Ming Dynasty, Volume 21)

The origin of Idioms

Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty wrote in geography records of the Han Dynasty: "the customs are quite different, the land is wide and the people are rare."

Chinese PinYin : dì kuàng rén xī