Backed by a power-hungry and hundred times more populous neighbor Russia, the native identities and languages would be subjected to cultural genocide and eventual annihilation.

In 1984, it was granted city status, and was looking to challenge its more populous neighbour.

A3 Barbuda residents feel neglected at the hands of their much more populous neighbor and partner in the two-island nation of Antigua-Barbuda.

Canaanite religion was strongly influenced by their more powerful and populous neighbors, and shows clear influence of Mesopotamian and Egyptian religious practices.

Each time they have rejected closer economic ties with their more powerful and populous southern neighbor.

By this and other measures, the country lags far behind India, its more populous neighbor and rival.

His country is remote and obscure, often confused with its richer and more populous neighbor, Nigeria.

Nevertheless, in the 1950s many Australians, including government leaders, looked fearfully at Australia's much more populous Asian neighbors, especially Indonesia with its 200 million people.

The Hill Miri have a tiny population, estimated at 9,000, because of which they were officially consolidated with their more populous neighbors, the Nishi in 1998.

Starting in November 1987, Arab countries have gradually restored ties with Egypt, Libya's populous neighbor.