The word "populated" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe a place that has a large number of people living in it. For example, "The city was densely populated with a variety of different cultures and backgrounds."
The park's peripheral areas have never been so densely populated, and Vidya Athreya, India's leading expert on leopard-human conflict, thinks this has led to the increase in sightings.
Zuwara is popular because it is close to Sicily, 300 miles north, and because it is populated by ethnic Amazigh (Berbers), who exclude outside security forces, giving smugglers a freer hand, according to Tripoli police.
This is a blasted, haunted landscape, populated by demonic child soldiers and a shadowy guerrilla army that slaughters in the bush or under the cover of night.
Over glasses of water in a Philippine cafe in a Doha suburba populated by migrant workers, the women laid bare their wretched six-month odyssey, which has left them on the brink of despair and repatriation.
The Yale scientists find that if nothing more is done, there will be more than 170,000 Ebola cases – including those that are unreported – and more than 90,000 deaths by 15 December in Montserrado, a densely populated county containing the capital, Monrovia, and which has one of the highest case rates in Liberia.
Above all, suspicion remains that HS2 will be, to borrow a phrase from one ex-transport secretary, a rich man's toy: trains sparsely populated by businessmen whizzing blithely through the estates – council and country – of people who will never use it.
For a country as vast as Canada the city is densely populated, with about 13,500 people per square mile; Glasgow, by comparison, has roughly the same population but just over half the residential density.
Staunton is talking about the women who populated her childhood – overworked women like her own mother.
According to reports, she lives at Candyland, a sort of pre-civil war deep south gentlemen's club populated by women who are forced into sex by their owner, Leonardo DiCaprio's villainous Calvin Candie, and his henchmen.
Established over 100 years ago, when a rich benefactor provided East End locals with free wheelbarrows from which to trade, the Barras Market (aka The Barrowlands) is now populated with a wonderful cross-section of Glasgow society.
