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El Nido
11.195560°,119.407500° - Kaspars Upmanis
Boats are moored on a cove in El Nido, Philippines. El Nido is located in the province of Palawan, about 260 miles (420 km) southwest of Manila. It is known for its white-sand beaches, coral reefs, and limestone cliffs. In fact, it was ranked #5 on Conde Nast Traveler’s list of “The 24 Best Island Beaches in the World.”
Port of Los Angeles Trucks
33.728611°,-118.240333° - Nearmap
Long-haul trucks wait in line to exit the Port of Los Angeles in California. It is estimated that there are 3.5 million truck drivers in the United States and they drive nearly 140 billion miles on American highways every year. In total, 433 billion miles are covered annually by the entire population.
Princess Juliana International Airport
18.040823°,-63.109948° - Maxar Technologies
Princess Juliana International Airport is the main airport on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. The airport is well-known for the approach to Runway 10, seen at the bottom of this Overview. Here, arriving aircraft must have a 3° glide slope, flying at a shockingly low altitude over people relaxing on Maho Beach to land safely.
Friedenau
52.471692°,13.328281° - Maxar Technologies
Friedenau is a neighborhood in the southwestern suburbs of Berlin, Germany. The streets and squares of Friedenau are laid out in a geometric urban design known as a Carstenn Figure. This type of plan is characterized by a circular road that is divided by central avenue.
Île de Noirmoutier Salt Pans
46.999512°,-2.282612° - Maxar Technologies
Salt pans are visible on Île de Noirmoutier, an island off the western coast of France. Here, more than 800 tonnes of salt are extracted annually through evaporation. Sea water is channeled into the basins via canals, which pass through reservoirs that get progressively shallower. Over time, evaporation causes the salt to crystallize and it is then carefully extracted from the pans.
Espel
52.724167°,5.644167° - Maxar Technologies
The village of Espel — located in the province of Flevoland, Netherlands — is home to 1,386 inhabitants. The farms in the region specialize in growing flower bulbs, mainly tulips. To the west of the village is Windpark Noordoostpolder, a partially on-shore, partially off-shore wind farm with more than 80 turbines.
Brighton Pier
50.816388°,-0.137253° - Maxar Technologies
Brighton Pier, also known as Palace Pier, is constructed off the coast of the English city of Brighton. Extending 1,719 feet (524 meters) into the English Channel, the structure contains numerous restaurants, rides, and roller coasters.
Beirut
33.886944°,35.513056° - Maxar Technologies
Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. Located at the midpoint of the country’s Mediterranean coast, the area serves as the country’s largest seaport. Settlement in this area is believed to date back more than 5,000 years, with recent excavations in the downtown area unearthing layers from Phoenician, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Crusader and Ottoman civilizations.
Great Sandy Desert
-20.000000°,125.000000° - United States Geological Survey
The Great Sandy Desert is the second-largest desert in Australia, covering 110,036 square miles (284,993 square km) in the northwestern part of the continent. Despite its name, the western portion of the desert is almost devoid of sand, but is characterized by complex geology — as shown in this Overview. The Great Sandy Desert is sparsely populated by indigenous Australian communities and mining centers.
Montevideo
-34.883611°,-56.181944° - Maxar Technologies
Montevideo is the capital and most populous city of Uruguay, with about 1.3 million residents — more than one-third of the country's total population. It is also the southernmost capital city in the Americas, located southeast of Buenos Aires, Argentina, across the Río de la Plata. Montevideo is divided into 62 barrios (neighborhoods), each with its own identity, geographic location, and socio-cultural activities.
Chinese Radio Telescope
25.652920°,106.856580° - Maxar Technologies
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope is a radio telescope in the limestone hills of China’s Guizhou province. With a dish 1,600 feet (500 m) in diameter, it is the world’s largest filled-aperture radio telescope and the second-largest single-dish aperture, behind Russia’s RATAN-600.
North Dakota Cornfields
47.920000°,-97.450000° - NASA
A patchwork of brown corn fields contrasts with snow-covered land in eastern North Dakota, USA. This image, captured by NASA’s Landsat 7 satellite on December 3rd, shows the city of Grand Forks in the upper-right corner. Snowfall is common this time of year in North Dakota, but full cornfields are not — normally all of the corn is harvested by now. Some news reports estimate that the amount of unharvested corn in the state is the highest it has been since 2009.
Foxe Basin
67.000000°,-78.000000° - United States Geological Survey
Large chunks of swirling ice are seen here in Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada. Located between Baffin Island and Melville Peninsula, the shallow oceanic basin is blocked by ice for most of the year (this image was captured in July). Foxe Basin supports a high density of bearded seals and the largest walrus herd in Canada. It is also an important summering area for bowhead and beluga whales and narwhal.
Milan-Malpensa Airport (MXP)
45.629583°,8.725802° - Maxar Technologies
This Overview shows Milan-Malpensa Airport in Milan, Italy. The airport is the second-busiest in Italy by international passenger traffic, handling 24.7 million passengers in 2018. It is also the busiest Italian airport for freight and cargo, handling more than 500,000 tons of international freight annually.
Chimalhuacán
19.435063°,-98.968517° - Maxar Technologies
Chimalhuacán is a city with more than 600,000 residents in the eastern part of the State of Mexico, Mexico. The colorful stretch of road seen across the bottom of this Overview is a open-air market known as a tianguis. Here, merchants cover their stalls with vibrant canopies to protect themselves from harsh sun and inclement weather.
Clear Island Waters
-28.044500°,153.397611° - Nearmap
Clear Island Waters is a suburb on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. Built around artificial canals, it is a residential community that is home to roughly 4,000 people. Clear Island Waters is just a few miles west of Mermaid Beach, one of many beaches along the Gold Coast's 43-mile coastline.
Jebel Kissu
21.571389°,25.132778° - United States Geological Survey
Jebel Kissu is a massif (a compact group of mountains) located in northwestern Sudan. It rises roughly 5,630 feet (1,716 m) above sea level, emerging abruptly like an island in the vast Sahara Desert. The bright linear features seen here are truck tracks — common in the Sahara where there are no paved roads.
Qinghai Lake
37.000945°,99.892228° - Maxar Technologies
The shores of Qinghai Lake in China are captured in this Overview. The lake is the largest in the country, covering 1,667 square miles (4317 square km), which is nearly one and a half times the size of the state of Rhode Island.
Jodhpur
26.297840°,73.018420° - Maxar Technologies
Jodhpur, India, is home to more than one million residents, making it the second largest city in the state of Rajasthan. Jodhpur is often referred to as the “Blue City” due to the vivid, painted houses that can be seen throughout its urban area.
Camps Bay Beach
-33.950000°,18.383333° - Maxar Technologies
Waves break on the rocks by Camps Bay Beach — a beautiful white-sand beach in Camps Bay, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. In the summer, many South Africans and tourists flock to this beautiful area of the city.
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