inhabit
v.to live in a specific place. It is often used to talk about animals or groups of people living in a certain area.
v.to live in or occupy a place or environment. Transitive; requires a direct object representing the location.
“Many different species of birds inhabit these islands.”
“The indigenous tribes that inhabit the remote regions of the rainforest have developed unique survival skills over centuries.”
“While humans inhabit almost every corner of the globe, the harshest desert environments remain home only to those specifically adapted to extreme aridity.”
The verb is transitive and takes a direct object without a preposition.
Inhabit is a transitive verb and does not take the preposition 'in'.
“One occurs mainly in China, while the other inhabits the Himalayan foothills across parts of Nepal, India, Bhutan, and Myanmar.”
From Old French enhabiter, from Latin inhabitare (in + habitare).
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.