There isn't anywhere in Europe that's "rural" by the standards of North America. The North Slope Borough in Alaska is nearly the size of Romania, but has only

There isn't anywhere in Europe that's "rural" by the standards of North America. The North Slope Borough in Alaska is nearly the size of Romania, but has only about 9,000 people living there. The state as a whole is larger than all of Western Europe, but has only about 700,000 people. Much of Canada is the same, only more so.