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Pitcairn is the only inhabited one—with a population of around 50 people.—Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 20 Dec. 2025 This gold-mining town is considered the highest inhabited place on Earth, where roughly 30,000 people struggle at around 5,100 metres.—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Dec. 2025 Despite standing in one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth, the iconic moai of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) can now be experienced from the comfort of your home.—Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025 The landscape also offers up eighteenth-century farmhouses, lairds’ castles, Norse churches, Iron Age forts, and Bronze Age barrows alongside the Neolithic tombs, settlements, and standing stones—thousands of sites altogether, across twenty-odd inhabited islands.—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inhabited
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