heavily populated
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Because less of the world’s landscape is burning, the result is less air pollution, especially in heavily populated areas in Africa.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
The storm was expected to linger for days, shifting into the heavily populated mid-Atlantic and northeastern states while crippling daily life and ushering in a frigid air mass across the country.
From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026
As these hot spots grow, they increase the likelihood that exceptionally intense tropical cyclones, sometimes described as Category '6' storms, could make landfall near heavily populated coastlines.
From Science Daily • Dec. 25, 2025
Near-shore tsunamis, those triggered by earthquakes just off the coast, could pose a particularly dire risk for California’s heavily populated coastal communities.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2025
Until European contact the warm coastline of California was heavily populated, according to William S. Preston, a geographer at California State Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
