#if you zoom in on the taklamakan desert in westernbchina there are actually a ton of little villages

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7. There actually are people living there but those don't count apparently because there's no major cities

7.1 There are no major cities because theres not enough resources or strategic value to the area to bother building one

All those videos that are like “Why is this big area of this country uninhabited???” always have five reasons it might be.

It’s really cold

It’s really hot

Big mountains are hard to build on

No water and humans generally need that

All four of the above all at once