Populous

a.	1.	Abounding in people; full of inhabitants; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country. Heaven, yet populous, retains Number sufficient to possess her realms. - Milton.
	2.	Popular; famous.
	3.	Common; vulgar.
	4.	Numerous; in large number.

Adj.

1.

populous - densely populated Synonyms: thickly settled

alive with, bristling, bursting, close, colonized, compact, crammed, crawling, crowded, crowding, empeopled, firm, full, in profusion, inhabited, jam-packed, jammed, lavish, legion, multifarious, multitudinal, multitudinous, numerous, occupied, overflowing, packed, peopled, populated, prodigal, profuse, proliferating, prolific, rife, serried, settled, several, solid, studded, sundry, superabundant, swarming, teeming, tenanted, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thronging, various, voluminous