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Note that the Eastern United States, Europe,
and Japan are quite bright at night ---
in these photos circa 1998.

China is probably a lot brighter circa 2018.

Introduction: These pictures help indicate the rapid expansion (and concentrations) of humans on the Earth in the past few centuries (circa 1700 to 2000) --- as exhibited by the electric lights that have been distributed over the earth --- especially in population centers like large cities. (Places like the New York City area and Chicago would have been almost dark at night in 1700 in these photos, even if they had had electric lights.) Most of these images are from around the 1995 to 2005 time frame. How to View the Images of This Page: Click on the photo-description-links below to see a large size photo. The photo images are shown in a separate browser window. You can close the separate window(s) and return to this 'photo-links' page. More Images and Info: There is a section of 'WEB SEARCH' links links near the bottom of this page --- to find 'earth lights' images --- including images related to keywords such as 'north america' or 'korea'. Most of the images below are low-resolution images that were collected around 2006. The WEB SEARCH links below can be used to find better, high-resolution images. For convenience, there are also Wikipedia links below the 'WEB SEARCH' links --- to find information on the geographic areas and the methods used to collect satellite images of Earth. You can follow links in Wikipedia pages to find extensive information on various topics.

Table of Contents: (links to sections of this page, below) < Go to Top of Page, above. > Whole EARTH (laid flat) and Hemisphere photos Continental-Areas photos: EUROPE, North Africa photos ASIA, MIDDLE-EAST photos AUSTRALIA, Indonesia photos AFRICA plus Middle East photos NORTH AMERICA (and USA) photos SOUTH AMERICA photos City photos: U.S.A. Cities non-USA Cities Some SEARCH engines by which to find more earth-at-night images. End of Table of Contents. Start of Earth-at-Night photo links. Note: You can use an option like 'Find in This Page ...' of your web browser to find keywords on this page, such as 'africa' or 'chicago' or 'hemisphere'. For more images, you can use an 'images search engine' and use keywords like lights night satellite.

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Whole EARTH (laid flat) and Hemisphere photos

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• Whole-Earth - lights at night (432x222)

• Whole-Earth - lights at night, projected on curved globe surface (425x267)

• Whole-Earth - lights at night (510x354) (squashed horizontally)

• Whole-Earth - lights at night (576x288)

• Whole-Earth - lights at night (816x408)

• Whole-Earth - lights at night (960x480)

• Whole-Earth - lights at night (1000x497)

• Whole-Earth - lights at night (1200x600)

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• Whole-Earth - lights at night (400x170) - clipped, top-bottom

• Whole-Earth - lights at night (400x299) - clipped, left-right

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• Eastern Hemisphere - lights at night (800x597)

• Western Hemisphere - lights at night (800x597)

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EUROPE (and North Africa) photos

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• Europe - lights at night - mapped onto a globe (450x450)

• Europe, with Russia, Mideast, NorthAfrica - lights at night 600x426)

• Europe - lights at night (640x480)

• Europe - lights at night (650x515)

• Europe, Africa, Middle East, Russia - lights at night (660x495)

• Europe - lights at night, color-contours (600x600)

• Europe, Russia, Middle East, North Africa - lights at night, rendered in blue (1024x768)

• Italy - lights at night, in yellow (800x625)

• Spain, North Africa - lights at night (832x517)

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ASIA photos

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• East Asia (China, Japan, Koreas, Southeast Asia) - lights at night (524x512)

• East Asia (India, China, Japan, Koreas, Southeast Asia) - lights at night (602x432)

• Asia - India, Russia, China, Japan - lights at night (688x514)

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• Central Asia, esp. India, Pakistan - lights at night, color-contours (539x600)

• India, Pakistan - lights at night (300x323)

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• Japan - lights at night (336x248)

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• Korea (South & North) - lights at night (110x114) (small view)

• Korea (South & North) - lights at night, in blue (220x338)

• Korea (South & North), Japan, North China - lights at night (1024x1024)

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• South East Asia (Thailand, Vietnam) - lights at night (609x682)

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• Middle East - lights at night (332x308)

• Middle East (Arabia) - lights at night (637x637)

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AUSTRALIA (and Indonesia) photos

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• Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia - lights at night (648x485)

• Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia - lights at night, color-contours (600x571)

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AFRICA plus Middle East photos

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• Africa (and Arabia) - lights at night (600x568)

• Africa - lights at night, color-contours (600x600)

• Africa, Europe - lights at night (217x300)

• Africa - lights at night (1024x1049)

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• Nigeria - lights at night (535x321)

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NORTH AMERICA (and U.S.A.) photos

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• U.S.A., Canada, Arctic, Carribbean - lights at night (700x524)

• U.S.A., Canada, Arctic, Alaska, Carribbean - lights at night (700x339)

• U.S.A., Canada, Arctic, Carribbean - lights at night (220x170) (small view)

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• North America - lights at night, color-contours (600x413)

• Northeastern North America - lights at night (320x320)

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• U.S.A. - lights at night (558x449)

• U.S.A. - lights at night (700x420)

• U.S.A. - lights at night (800x480)

• U.S.A. - lights at night (341x236)

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• Northeast U.S.A., Pre-and-Post Aug2003 blackout - lights at night (256x225)

• Northeast U.S.A., Pre-and-Post Aug2003 blackout - lights at night (400x433)

• Northeast U.S.A., POST Aug2003 blackout - lights at night (959x719)

• Northeast U.S.A., PRE Aug2003 blackout - lights at night (959x719)

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SOUTH AMERICA photos

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• South America - lights at night, color-contours (429x600)

• Brazil burning - at night (363x341)

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U.S.A. City photos

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• Chicago - lights at night (172x129)

• New York City - lights at night (529x343)

• San Francisco Bay area - lights at night (396x275)

• San Francisco Bay area - by DAY (300x312)

• Los Angeles area - lights at night (500x340)

• Minnesota cities - lights at night (255x265)

• Cities near Lake Superior - lights at night (640x490)

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non-U.S.A City photos

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• Buenos Aires, Argentina - lights at night (500x340)

• Sao Paulo, Brazil - lights at night (500x341)

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Some LINKS to find more 'EARTH-LIGHTS' IMAGES on the web --- and descriptions thereof: You can try a WEB SEARCH on keywords such as: 'earth lights images' 'photos earth lights' 'pictures earth lights' 'images earth lights north america' 'images earth lights china' 'images earth lights japan' 'images earth lights korea' And you can try the Wikipedia - 'Earth' page, and follow links from that page. Wikipedia - 'Satellite imagery' page, and follow links from that page. Wikipedia - 'Imaging satellite' page, and follow links from that page. Wikipedia - 'List_of_Earth_observation_satellites' page, and follow links from that page.

Bottom of this SATELLITE-PHOTOS-of-EARTH-at-NIGHT page. To return to a previously visited web page location, click on the Back button of your web browser, a sufficient number of times. OR, use the History-list option of your web browser. OR ... < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of Page, above. > Or you can scroll up to the top of this page. Page history: Page was created 2006 Mar 30. Page was changed 2006 Oct 05. (Minor changes.) Page was changed 2018 Oct 10. (Added css and javascript to try to handle text-size for smartphones, esp. in portrait orientation.) Page was changed 2020 Dec 10. (Specified the width of 2 images at the top of this page in proportion to the width of the browser window. Added WEB SEARCHES for more earth-lights pictures and for related information.)