1.   The Netherlands was already the most densely populated country in Europe, he argued.

2.   This would favor heavily populated poor countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Nigeria.

3.   Peacemaking also raises the international profile of the sparsely populated country.

4.   An increase in ultraviolet radiation in the more heavily populated northern countries could be dangerous to many people.

5.   It also adds fodder to a longtime debate about the possibility that the sparsely populated Scandinavian country is en route to joining the western defense alliance NATO.

6.   Moving weather patterns high in the atmosphere had brought the lows over densely populated countries this year for the first time, WMO said.

7.   NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson spent Friday in the north of this sparsely populated Scandinavian country watching military exercise in which Russian troops joined Norwegian NATO soldiers.

8.   That was even the case in India, the second-most populated country on the planet.

9.   The holiday, which is estimated to fall at the end of this month, is the peak traveling season in the mainly Moslem populated country.

10.   The gathering was the first in this densely populated South Asian country to focus exclusively on investment opportunities.