Earthlights - Rich/Poor Divide

I got this from Edmund when I got back from the chalet. Another example of the great divide in wealth in the world.

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This picture was taken on the 27th of November by a number of NASA satellites. It shows all the inhabited and uninhabited regions of the world.

The amount of light seen represents the development or underdevelopment of the region.

The world is brightly lit up in the three main developed areas:
North-America, Western Europe and Japan while the south is mostly in darkness (except for more developed areas such as Australia, South Africa and Brazil) but you must not forget the natural boundaries, like the Sahara and the rain forests.