Look at the jaw-dropping emptiness of America (2024)

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What is the most empty part of America? ›

The least-populated place in the United States is Alaska's Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area.

About 47 percent of the country is unoccupied.

1. Greenland. Greenland has a population density of 0.14 people per square kilometre (0.36 people per square mile) and is the least densely populated country in the world. Just under 57,000 people live in a 2.2 million square kilometre space.

The Empty Quarter – most of Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Colorado from Denver west, as well as the eastern portions of Oregon, California, Washington, all of Alberta and Northern Canada (including what is now Nunavut), northern Arizona, parts of New Mexico (mainly the area controlled by the Navajo ...

That state is Missouri. The results from Sporcle's “US States Quiz” make it clear that Missouri is the most forgotten state. The quiz has been attempted by players more than 19 million times, and Missouri is the state the lowest percent of people guess correctly.

About 95% of the U.S. is unexplored or under-explored, at least as far as international tourism is concerned. In a way, most of the country is “off the beaten path” even for Americans.

Alaska is the largest state in the United States in terms of land area and the least densely populated. Alaska boasts a vast expanse of untouched and unaltered natural beauty.

Wyoming is the least populous state. In 2024, Alaska, with a unique demographic featuring high veteran density, remains third-least-populated but excels in air quality and low-income inequality despite the highest gun violence rate among states. The least populous state in the United States is Wyoming.

the U.S. the U.S. Source: United States census bureau. White Americans constitute the majority of the 332 million people living in the United States, with 71% of the population in the 2020 United States Census, including 61.6% who identified as 'white alone.'

No. 1: India

Population growth in India over the past decade – it grew 11.2% from 2012 to 2022 – led the country to overtake China as the most populous nation in the world in 2022.

What is the least densely country? ›

With a population of 0.14 people per square kilometer in 2021, Greenland was the least densely populated country in the world. The country had 56,421 inhabitants in 2021. Between 2015-2021, the population density of Greenland remained the same.

The island of Greenland is the world's least densely populated place. 148.9 million square kilometers (57.5 million square miles) of land is a huge area. It's actually all the land area on earth. But with more than 7 billion people sharing our planet, it boils down to 50 people sharing each square km.

As of the 2010 census, the United States consists of 11,078,300 Census Blocks. Of them, 4,871,270 blocks totaling 4.61 million square kilometers were reported to have no population living inside them. Despite having a population of more than 310 million people, 47 percent of the USA remains unoccupied.

California is second only to Alaska in the amount of land that is uninhabited roadless wilderness. All the urban and suburban areas of California combined cover only about 5% of the state. A far larger part of the state is uninhabited mountains, deserts, forests, and even steep rugged parts of the Pacific coast.

Final answer: The individual 50 states lack international borders that delineate sovereign nations and do not maintain standing armies as separate entities from the U.S. military. They cannot engage in their own foreign policies at the international level, which makes them distinct from fully sovereign nation-states.

Alaska. Alaska is by far the least densely populated of the US states and has 1.3 persons per square mile. The demographics of the state reflect 64.1% as non-Hispanic white and 14.8% as Native American.