In fact, mosquitoes carrying dengue fever have invaded more than a third of the homes in Argentina's most populous province, a doctor said last week.
This left Mr Sharif, a champion of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous state, as the country's closest approximation to a national leader.
In North Rhine-Westphalia, the country's most populous state, a new minority government of Social Democrats and Greens favours keeping children together in school for up to ten years.
Much of South-East Asia has been hit by a currency crisis, just as India's economic reforms are at last making the world's second most populous country a promising place to invest.
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country, with a population of nearly 175 million according to the CIA World Factbook, and is the political and economic powerhouse of West Africa.
After that setback, off he went to build a new base in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, where he had once taught at a university.
Clinton racked up a string of wins in populous states, but "she's not taking them convincingly, " said David Gergen, a former adviser to the Reagan and Clinton administrations.
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Crucially, though, the instability has yet to affect Iran's populous central areas, where Persians are a big majority.
What happens here -- the region's most populous country -- is always a good way to gauge trends for the rest of the Middle East.
The sin of which he stands accused is that, as premier for 20 years of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, he improperly used a private jet chartered by the Westdeutsche Landesbank, of which the state owns nearly half.
India is the world's second most populous nation, with more than a billion people.
's larger ambitions in a young, populous but still hobbled market.
Apple's trademark trouble in Latin America's most populous country is just the latest in a series of global snafus that have spanned China, Japan and the United States.
In Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state with 200 million people, a study published in 2008 in the Indian Journal of Medical Research showed about 20% of TB patients were multi-drug-resistant.
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Only one of four voters in the nation's second-most populous city were projected to cast a ballot, possibly a historic low in a city known to shrug at local politics.
That prompted Mr Franco to seek the governorship of Minas Gerais, the country's second-most-populous state, perhaps with a view to trying again for the presidency at the next election, in 2002.
That would probably make it the second-biggest party in India's most populous state, behind the Samajwadi party, a low-caste Hindu outfit and sometime Congress ally, which was expected to win 23 seats.
The combination of economic reforms and high oil prices have propelled the Nigerian economy forward, giving a important boost to Africa's most populous country ravaged by years of domestic strife and the effects of military dictatorship.
Emergency officials in New England's most populous state reported about 400, 000 outages at 7 a.m.
The debacle in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous and politically important state, was the culmination of a series of recent reverses for the Congress.
INDIA'S 120m-130m Muslims would make a country almost as populous as Pakistan.
Given immigrants' numbers, bashing them is politically dangerous: they and their children are already a majority in Toronto, the country's most populous city.
This despite the fact that her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), a regional party based in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, has only 17 seats in the parliament.
It was hoped by many that President Bush's meeting today with Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo augurs a stronger relationship between the United States and Africa's most populous country.
With a population of 84 million, Vietnam is one of the world's most populous countries.
Her center-right coalition faced a crucial regional election on May 9 in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state.
Egypt, as the most populous and powerful Arab state, was in a position to ensure that no other state could exploit Israel's territorial concession.
That's down nearly 8% from Facebook's previous ranking, indicating a drop in popularity of the social network that is by far the world's most populous, with more than 900 million active users.
Transparency International's corruption-perceptions index suggests that corruption is rife: in 2010, on a scale from one (the worst) to ten, Western Europe's five most populous countries received an average score of 6.5, whereas the three most populous countries in the Middle East averaged 3.2 (Turkey scored 4.4, Egypt 3.1 and Iran 2.2).
In early May a Christian-liberal coalition lost an election in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state.
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