Dayao was vast, but sparsely populated.
To what extent?
Other than the Sixty Thousand Mountains, it was about a quarter of the size of China.
Tianjing Basin occupied one-sixth of that, which was around 400,000 square kilometers of land. This was equivalent to the size of two ordinary provinces, and it had a population of around ten million.
The remaining two million square kilometers of land, which was equivalent to the size of ten ordinary provinces, had a population of less than 400,000 aboriginals.
Out of more than ten million aboriginals, around ten million of them resided in the Sixty Thousand Mountains.
Only 400,000 people lived on the piece of land that was the size of ten provinces. This showed how sparsely populated Dayao was.
