Underpopulated

Definition: Underpopulated

Underpopulated

Adjective

1. Having a lower population density than normal or desirable; "the richly endowed but underpopulated Ivory Coast".

Non-Fiction Usage: Underpopulated

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Zambia	About one-half of the country's 10.2 million people are concentrated in a few urban zones strung along the major transportation corridors, while rural areas are underpopulated. (references)
	Peru	The rest of Peru is largely underpopulated, underdeveloped and does not offer an attractive market for technical equipment, with certain exceptions, such as the large-scale mining operations located along Peru's sierra. (references)
	North Korea	Beginning in the mid-1920s, the Japanese colonial administration concentrated its industrial development efforts in the comparatively underpopulated and resource-rich northern portion of Korea, resulting in a considerable movement of people northward from the agrarian southern provinces of the Korean Peninsula. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Underpopulated

"Underpopulated" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Underpopulated" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translation: Underpopulated

Language		Translations for "underpopulated"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i populluar pak (thinly populated). (various references)

Bulgarian		рядко населен (thinly populated). (various references)

Chinese		人口稀少. (various references)

Czech		ménì osídlený. (various references)

German		unterbevölkert. (various references)

Greek		αραιοκατοικήμενοσ. (various references)

Italian		sottopopolato. (various references)

Pig Latin		erpopulatedunday

Russian		малонаселенный (outback). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nedovoljno nastanjen. (various references)

Swedish		underbefolkad. (various references)

Turkish		nüfusu az. (various references)

Vietnamese		thưa dân (underpeopled). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Underpopulated

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-l-n-o-p-p-r-t-u-u"
	-3 letters: depopulated, repopulated, underlapped.
	-4 letters: depopulate, outlearned, preadopted, repopulate.
	-5 letters: denatured, depurated, entrapped, laundered, leotarded, notepaper, outdueled, outearned, outlander, outleaped, perpetual, plundered, populated, portended, propended, protended, readopted, replanted, unaltered, underplot, undulated, unpeopled, unpopular, unrelated.
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