Description LOCATION@1 is a large , sparsely populated area , spanning over NUMBER@1 million km2 -LRB- comparable in size to LOCATION@2 or LOCATION@3 -RRB- , which takes up about one sixth of the country 's territory .

It is a large , sparsely populated area , spanning over NUMBER@1 million km2 -LRB- comparable in size to LOCATION@2 -RRB- , which takes up about one sixth of the country 's territory .
