It is mostly uninhabited desert but contains about 25% of the world's proven oil reserves.

Transport is crucial to the economy and culture of this vast landlocked nation, with cities separated by huge uninhabited deserts, mountain ranges, and other natural features.

It is an uninhabited and notoriously hostile desert, which has contributed as much as the Nile's cataracts to the historical isolation of Sudan.

He indicated he observed that Palestine was primarily an uninhabited desert.

The vast area between the opposing forces is barren, mostly uninhabited desert.

The United States border is a barely discernible line in uninhabited deserts, canyons, or mountains.

At independence, Botswana - which includes vast stretches of virtually uninhabited desert - had less than five miles of tarred road.

But an uninhabited desert in New Mexico would hardly change appearance over thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of years.

In addition, the hundreds of square miles of uninhabited desert surrounding Las Vegas were well suited for munitions training.

The project was successful, as what was once an uninhabited sagebrush desert is now bountiful farmland.