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

In more heavily populated areas closer to the San Diego County coast, the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 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