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Is "Hoh Xil" really a Tibetan toponym? It looks rather Turkic to me, with a meaning like "Sky Hills." Does anyone have proof that this is really an authentic Tibetan name and not a Turkic or Mongolic one?
The question of least populated area seems to be an arbitrary one. First of all a distinction must be made between the least populated and least densely populated area.
The Pitcairn islands are, for instance, considered the world's least populated country, but they are tiny, and other sovereign states are in fact less densely populated than them.
Then comes the question of the word "area". I'm not sure that Hoh Xil is even an official administrative division in the PRC -- perhaps it refers to the area of the Qinghai-Kekexili National nature reserve.
It could also be a misunderstanding: Hoh Xil would not be the world's third least populated "area", but rather the third largest area with no permanent inhabitants, that is what the information in Chinese says at any rate, but I have no sources to back this up.
TheZoolooMaster ( talk) 16:52, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
http://www.china.org.cn/travel/2014-08/01/content_33115857.htm ), although of course much depends on how one defines "areas".
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Is "Hoh Xil" really a Tibetan toponym? It looks rather Turkic to me, with a meaning like "Sky Hills." Does anyone have proof that this is really an authentic Tibetan name and not a Turkic or Mongolic one?
The question of least populated area seems to be an arbitrary one. First of all a distinction must be made between the least populated and least densely populated area.
The Pitcairn islands are, for instance, considered the world's least populated country, but they are tiny, and other sovereign states are in fact less densely populated than them.
Then comes the question of the word "area". I'm not sure that Hoh Xil is even an official administrative division in the PRC -- perhaps it refers to the area of the Qinghai-Kekexili National nature reserve.
It could also be a misunderstanding: Hoh Xil would not be the world's third least populated "area", but rather the third largest area with no permanent inhabitants, that is what the information in Chinese says at any rate, but I have no sources to back this up.
TheZoolooMaster ( talk) 16:52, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
http://www.china.org.cn/travel/2014-08/01/content_33115857.htm ), although of course much depends on how one defines "areas".
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