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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Nick Van Mead

Night lights: can you identify these world cities from space?

    1. San Francisco

    2. Vancouver

    3. Milan

    1. London

    2. Moscow

    3. Tokyo

  3. Naples from ISS. Taken at night from the International Space Station, this picture is easily recognisable as Naples, Italy because of the black hole in the bright lights: Mount Vesuvius. Understandably, few people live on the still-active volcano, meaning no street lights or houses illuminate the area.

    1. Athens

    2. Nicosia

    3. Naples

  4. Kuwait from ISS. Seen at night, Kuwait City contrasts dramatically with the dark surface of the Persian Gulf and the sparsely populated desert.

    1. Tehran

    2. Kuwait City

    3. Havana

  5. Istanbul from ISS. The Bosporus strait (also spelled Bosphorus) famously separates the two halves of the city and links the small Sea of Marmara (and the Mediterranean Sea) to the Black Sea.

    1. Istanbul

    2. Cairo

    3. Helsinki

  6. Greater New York City metropolitan area on March 23, 2013.

    1. Toronto

    2. Mexico City

    3. New York

  7. Rome Italy from ISS. Italy’s capital city shows a distinctive patchwork of lights and darker areas when seen from the International Space Station at night. Rome’s A90 ring road, the “Grande Raccordo Anulare”, is not so visible due to different motorway lighting. No single point of interest strikes out from the patchwork of roads, parks and green areas.

    1. Madrid

    2. Rome

    3. Helsinki

  8. Melbourne from ISS. Melbourne seen from the International Space Station at night reveals its young history. Unlike the winding streets of older cities, Melbourne’s streetlights follow a more planned grid system. Established in 1835 around the natural bay of Port Phillip, Melbourne is the capital of the state of Victoria in Australia.

    1. Sydney

    2. Melbourne

    3. Wellington

  9. Barcelona ISS035-E-23385

    1. Barcelona

    2. Lisbon

    3. Nice

  10. Expedition 47 Commander Tim Kopra of NASA captured this brightly lit night image of the city of Chicago on April 5, 2016, from the International Space Station

    1. Chicago

    2. Detroit

    3. Dallas

  11. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from ISS 2014

    1. Kuala Lumpur

    2. Jakarta

    3. Hong Kong

  12. City lights of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, are featured in this image taken by the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station. 2012

    1. Dubai

    2. Abu Dhabi

    3. Doha

  13. Paris from ISS. The pattern of the street grid dominates at night, providing a completely different set of visual features from those visible during the day. For instance, the winding Seine River is a main visual cue by day, but here the thin black line of the river is hard to detect until you focus on the strong meanders and the street lights on both banks. The brightest boulevard in the dense network of streets is the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, the historical axis of the city, as designed in the 17th century. Every year on Bastille Day (July 14), the largest military parade in Europe processes down the Champs Élysées, reviewed by the President of the Republic. This grand avenue joins the site of the former royal Palace of the Tuileries—whose gardens appear as a dark rectangle on the river—to the star-like meeting place of eleven major boulevards at the Arc de Triomphe. This famous plaza is also referred to as the Étoile, or “star.”.

    1. Brussels

    2. Paris

    3. Berlin

  14. Riyadh from ISS. The population of Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia, has risen dramatically in the last half century—from 150,000 in 1960 to 5.4 million in 2012. The city appears as a brightly colored patchwork in this nighttime astronaut photograph. The brightest lights, apart from those on the old Riyadh Airbase, follow the commercial districts along King Abdullah Road and King Fahd Branch Road. Many of the darker patches within the built area are city parks.

    1. Las Vegas

    2. Blackpool

    3. Riyadh

Solutions

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