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Until a few years ago, Chongqing was largely a trivia answer: the world’s most populous city by some measures, with 32 million people in a South Carolina-size area.

The issue hit the headlines after the country's most populous state announced a specialised unit of investigators was probing influencer tax dodging on a massive scale.

With nearly 12 million people, PNG is the largest and most populous South Pacific nation.

That county, the most populous in Kansas, has seen its Democratic ranks grow by roughly 53,000 people in the last nine years, even as the number of registered Republicans stagnated.

The earthquake shook the northern coast of Cebu, one of the country's most populous islands, on the night of 30 September, jolting many out of their sleep.