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English: View of Korean Peninsula at night from space; note the contrast between North Korea and South Korea in terms of lighting, with the only major point in the North having substantial light being Pyongyang, the nation's capital. Image is derived from a larger composite image of the globe at nighttime compiled by NASA.
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Source Derived from image from NASA (direct link)
Author NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data from Miguel Román, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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Satellite image of the Korean peninsula at night. Earth at Night: Flat Maps, NASA Earth Observatory, taken by the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi-NPP satellite

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