At one extreme are the systems of upper New York State, where libraries in two or more counties combine to serve a large, sparsely populated area.

Densely populated, this area includes the cities of Istanbul and Bursa, Turkey's largest and fourth largest cities respectively.

To the north and west, the topography is mountainous ; this is the area of the five Angus Glens, is sparsely populated and the main industry is hill-farming.

This area is well populated, with the larger towns and the city of Dundee on the coast.

Amok typically takes place in a well populated or crowded area.

The shores of the strait are heavily populated as the city of Istanbul ( with a metropolitan area in excess of 11 million inhabitants ) straddles it.

The area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was populated as early as 80, 000 years ago, as shown by the 1988 discovery of the Semliki harpoon at Katanda, one of the oldest barbed harpoons ever found, and which is believed to have been used to catch giant river catfish.

Sparsely populated in relation to its area, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ) is home to a vast potential of natural resources and mineral wealth, its untapped deposits of raw minerals are estimated to be worth in excess of US $ 24 trillion, yet the economy of the DRC has declined drastically since the mid-1980s.

The area of the later city of Gdynia shared its history with Pomerelia ( Eastern Pomerania ); in prehistoric times it was the center of Oksywie culture ; it was later populated by Slavs with some Baltic Prussian influences.

Conceptually, a GIF file describes a fixed-sized graphical area ( the " logical screen ") populated with zero or more " images ".

The Great Victoria Desert is a sparsely populated desert area in Western Australia and South Australia.

In summer in particular this road can become very congested rendering the journey between the bridge and South Hayling ( the most populated area ) anything from 30 minutes to an hour.

The Jutes populated the area of Kent, the Isle of Wight and an area of the adjacent mainland that would later be part of Wessex.

The area of Indonesia is populated by peoples of various migrations, creating a diversity of cultures, ethnicities, and languages.

Communication routes between these small centres only became populated later and created a much less dense urban morphology than, for instance, the area around Liège where the old town was there to direct migratory flows.

None of the populated plains or mountain basins are extensive in area.

Christianity took hold in the city during the Byzantine era and the area was heavily populated.

Drafted by a treaty and a bill of sale, and constituted between 1820 and 1858, the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu ( as it was first called ) combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.

It is one of the most sparsely populated regions in the area and is mainly inhabited by people of Indo-Aryan and Tibetan descent.

The village of Kinglassie lies to the north of the Lochty Burn, 3 miles ( 5 km ) southwest of Glenrothes in Fife and 3 miles southeast of Perth and Kinross district. Kinglassie ( Pronounced Kin-glassie ) village has been populated for thousands of years, in 830 AD the village was known as Kinglace, the ancient Picts used to live in this area.

The prominence of the reactor's containment building in a densely populated area has been controversial, but MIT maintains that it is well-secured.

" No point in the country is in a non-incorporated area, and which explains why some municipalities in sparsely populated areas such as the Amazon region can be larger than many sovereign countries.

According to the 2011 census the municipality of Thessaloniki today has a population of 322, 240, while the Thessaloniki Urban Area ( the contiguous built up area forming the " City of Thessaloniki ") has a population of 790, 824 ; making it the fifth largest and most populated city in the Balkans and the second most populated city that is not a capital.

As in Greenland as a whole, Nuuk is populated today by both Inuit and Danes.

Fortunately, our solar system is much less populated with large objects today and the probability of such an event happening is essentially zero, as the larger asteroids in the asteroid belt and the giant comets in the Kuiper belt that are in this size range are in stable orbits that will not enter the inner solar system, let alone intersect the orbit of Earth, with no observed exceptions.

The Brooklyn Chinatown was originally settled by Cantonese immigrants, but today it is mostly populated by Fujianese immigrants with still some Cantonese immigrants, who are longtime Chinese residents.

For a long time it was only populated by a fishing and hunting people, the Sami people, who have their own language and breed reindeer in northern Sweden, and today have special rights as a Swedish minority group.

The northeast section is so-called " working-class " Narberth, populated by turn-of-the-century row houses, which today are often inhabited by descendants of Italian and Irish immigrants.

* Monte-originally a summer refuge for the wealthy, due to its mild climate, Monte is symbolized by the toboggan drivers that race tourists down to the central town ; today it is one of the more populated areas of Funchal with over 7500 inhabitants ;

* Santo António-the most populated civil parish in the municipality, developed from the concentration of small artisan shops, that developed until the 16th century ; today the population includes approximately 22, 000 residents ;

The Barbican Estate is a residential estate built during the 1960s and the 1970s in the City of London, in an area once devastated by World War II bombings and today densely populated by financial institutions.

In the late pre-contact period, the Huron-Wendat people populated what is today Vaughan.

The tradition of fencing out unwanted livestock prevails even today in some sparsely populated areas.

South of the marshes is sparsely populated woodland, formerly a village called Podunk — today marked only by a small cemetery along Podunk Road near the Sturbridge town line — and a hilly area called High Rocks.

Villages which were partially populated by significant populations of Bunjevci in the past, but today have less than 70 Bunjevci villagers each:

Hernán Cortés founded the town of La Natividad in 1524, roughly where Puerto Cortés is today, and populated it with about 20 Spaniards who had been previously been living in Nito and Naco.

Prior to the influx of Korean immigrants in the 1980s, the section of Bloor West of Bathurst was heavily populated by people from Central and South America, and the area appears to be reverting back to a Hispanic ethnic enclave today.

Had erosion not taken place, Cargados Carajos would have been a large volcanic island, and the Mascarenes would have been an archipelago of seven or more ( counting Saya De Malha, Nazareth and Soudan ) large, populated islands, rather than the three ( Mauritius, Reunion, Rodrigues ) that remain today.

Though Mulund today has become densely populated than what it used to be, it still remains one of the greenest and safest places to live in Mumbai.

In the days when the glens and hamlets of Tweeddale and, later, Annandale were much more densely populated than today, they seem to have pursued various occupations – from millers and blacksmiths to ministers of religion.

As the Austro-Hungarian government collapsed following World War I, Poles and Ukrainians struggled for the control over the city of Lemberg ( today Lviv ), populated mostly by Poles, but surrounded by a Ukrainian majority.

The potential for the recurrence of large earthquakes and their impact today on densely populated cities in and around the seismic zone has prompted research devoted to understanding in the New Madrid Seismic Zone.

The town was established by joining the three main populated areas: the town, the small village of the castle ( town of the Couronians ) and the village on the hill ( so called “ Kalnamiests ” in Latvian ) ( in the area of Kalna iela today ).

The theory further says that the new species, after having evolved within the confines of the lake, could have escaped with the lakewater as it drained, and populated the rivers of the region to evolve into the cichlids that exist today.

However, more detailed old maps of the area of Acton Grange show a sparsely populated hamlet and refers only to the old buildings and bridges recognisable today in street names in the area, such as Whitefield Cottage.