More than half of the surface of earth is too hot or too cold. That is why it is least populated.
A list of the 10 least densely populated nations, territories, and islands on the planet. The most isolated areas with fewest number people per square km.
149 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 7,125,000,000 people sharing our planet, it boils down to 48 people sharing each square km.
Geography isn't fair: In New York City there are 10,725 people sharing each square kilometer; in Singapore, density is over 7,300; in Hong Kong, nearly 6,400; these places can feel as cramped as an endless subway ride. However, there are also regions like Western Sahara, where the crowd thins out to a soothing - if not lonely - 2.2 persons in the same space. So where in the world can you go if you want to get away from everyone? Pack your binoculars for these next ten destinations - you'll need them to spot the nearest human.
The travel destination that is on the tip of everyone's tongue also has one of the world's smallest person-per-km ratios: there are roughly 23,766,500 Aussies spread over the 7.69 million square kilometres of island, equaling a density off 3.09. However, the number is just as misleading as the statistics for other occupants of the list - most Australians live on cities that hug the coast, leading to a roughly sketched ring that circles an vast expanse - the Australian Outback - largely deserted, more of a travel destination than inhabitable landmass. The deserted Outback makes the continent the world's driest, flattest, most arid and least hospitable to organic growth, in spite of the rain forests and mountain ranges that occupy other areas of the country.
Neighbouring Suriname to the West, French Guiana sits on the North-Eastern coast of South America and comes in 9th with a population density of 2.8 people per square km. Although it is technically part of France and the European Union (French Guiana's currency is the Euro), it is largely detached and independent of from its densely populated French colonizer. Half of the population lives in Cayenne, a city in the North of the nation on the Atlantic coast. Tropical and ancient forests, mangroves, savannas and wetlands make up most of the uninhabited landmass, making it impressively biodiverse and - thankfully - well protected by natural reserves.