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Populous

/pˈɑpjələs/
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(adj) Having a large population.

No city in Europe is as populous as Tokyo.
San Francisco is only one-tenth as populous as New York.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The most ____ city in the country has a metropolitan area of over twenty million people.

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