1.   As their numbers grow, they have migrated to more thickly populated counties, including Bergen, Essex, Hunterdon and Somerset.

2.   Death records often are incomplete, especially in sparsely populated counties without a medical examiner.

3.   One is about a newspaper that serves as the sole media source of news for the most sparsely populated county in New York.

4.   San Juan County is not the most sparsely populated county in Colorado.

5.   The hurricane crossed into the least populated coastal county in the United States.

6.   The Gore camp requested not only a mechanical recount, but a hand count of ballots in four heavily populated counties.

7.   A strong earthquake jolted a sparsely populated county in Tibet, but there were no reports of casualties, state-run media said Tuesday.

8.   Xinhua and local Chinese officials said the center was farther to the southwest in the sparsely populated Wangqing county, just north of the North Korean border.