http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/1438/earth_lights_lrg.jpg
i think pakistan ke kuch hisson mein load shedding ho rai thi when this fotoo was taken. 
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it is not city lights.
it is some natural phenomenon ...
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How can there be night all across the planet at the same time??? May be its a fake photo.
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The pic is not fake, been posted here before (1-2 year ago)
And this kind of pictures are taken in a pieces and later joined together.
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afterall, its from NASA's site. so no question if its fake or not.
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Wicked pic! Look how bright Japan is. Its got to be the brightest country out there.
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Africa is such a good energy preservative continent lol. barely any lights. surprisingly country like Russia has so few lights.
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LOL, city lights!!
Maybe its car headlights. Or maybe its everyone holding up a candle for Elvis’s death. 
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i dont think these are lights. the pakistani lights, first very few only in big cities, secondly these are not designed to take arial view, like in west they have a indicator bulb on top of every light. it does look good from top and i guess, easy to spot any fused one from the top.
comparitively india look whol well lit, which is far from reality in terms of street lights/ non existant motorways.
china isnt that bad as it looks form the picture.
plus river nile, egypt look like a continous litted tube, that cant be right.
its fake or its map of something else,
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hahah. i think its everything.
but thats a awsome picture!!