0 A populous country, area, or place has a lot of people living in it: --
1 (of a country, area, or place) having a lot of people living there: --
populous metropolitan areas
In the eighth century there had been an extensive trading settlement there and by the twelfth century a populous suburb had reemerged.
The most populous town boasted a mere 2,000 or so inhabitants in the mid-sixteenth century.
If split into age groups of five years, the most populous increment was that of the twenty-six to thirty-year-olds, with nineteen.
Geographical diffusion is the process whereby features spread out from a populous and economically and culturally dominant centre.
These towns represented the type of large and populous towns which traditionally had a higher administrative and political role.
The most populous sub-species on voting and elections in our sample of articles consists of studies of signalling in political contests.
A large empire is defined as a populous and territorially extensive compound of diverse groups and territorial units.
In the course of time, dozens of inhabitants of more populous villages, more often men than women,53 have acquired land rights in neighbouring corridors.
