Opponents argued that Alaska was far away, disconnected from the other states and little populated.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

As western areas became populated, they became official territories, and then new states.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

The densely populated area faces shortages of food, medicine, water and electric power.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

That makes it the second least-populated state in the country after Wyoming.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

Highly populated areas also get more money from the federal government.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

The damage outside the populated areas was almost as great.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

But they say it will sharply reduce the number of rockets able to hit populated areas and strategic facilities.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

South Ossetia and Abkhazia are heavily populated by ethnic Russians and have resisted integration with Georgia.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

closing an air field in a populated area and building a new one on an existing U.S.base in the northern part of the island.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

The developers of mobile harbor say the system also will boost anti-terror efforts, by keeping container ships with potentially dangerous cargo away from populated areas.

VOA: standard.2010.01.04

Isaak does not usually fish for the invasive Asian Carp, which have populated Illinois waterways to the point where they literally jump out of the water.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

The New York Times reports some Taliban and al-Qaida leaders have fled south from the tribal regions to Baluchistan - Pakistan's largest and least populated province.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

They are the ones who think we should be investigated." The Goldstone Report accuses Israel of deliberately targeting Palestinian civilians and using excessive force in heavily-populated areas.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Namibian Election officials say the second day of polling went relatively smoothly although lines were long early in the morning in heavily populated areas of the country.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28

"The report also fails to deal adequately with the asymmetrical nature of the conflict or to assign appropriate responsibility to Hamas for its decision to base itself and its military operations in heavily populated areas,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

The project will develop 13 corridors between heavily populated areas, but only the ones in California and Florida will be truly high speed because,says Amtrak's Steve Kulm, those states will be the only ones to build tracks exclusively for high speed trains.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15