Easter Island is part of Chile, far off its coast (like Hawaii), but it also claims to be the inhabited place furthest from any other inhabited place on earth, and a 5-hour flight into the Pacific.

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The boy inhabited this place like a reincarnate monk, a sprite flitting between the fallen arches, beneath the vanished porticoes.

BBC: Following the Silk Road to the end of China

Some Labour modernisers regard the countryside as a place inhabited by nasty, backward and cruel people, whose only useful purpose is to produce interesting new cheeses they can buy at London's better farmers' markets.

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You were not caught up in the mundanities of the place you inhabited, any more than you wanted to be.

ECONOMIST: Being foreign

Far from being claustrophobic, it is a place where happiness has taken root and bloomed: a placid Parisian apartment, lined with bookshelves, and inhabited by Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and his wife, Anne (Emmanuelle Riva).

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