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Europe at night (i.imgur.com)

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[–]i_drah_zua 13 points14 points  (9 children)

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The Dutch have lights everywhere on their highways.

In the south, London is a very big city, and has quite the suburbs and satellite cities.
What's going on in middle England I cannot tell, I don't think Manchester is that big.
but if you look at the demographic map you can see that there is an area of high population density.

Maybe someone from Great Britain can explain?

[–]MrCodeSmith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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Manchester and Liverpool merge in to one great blob on that map due to the satellite towns between them.

Slightly south of that you can just about make out Stoke and south of that is Birmingham, there are also quite a few towns/cities surrounding Brum that are hard to distinguish. (Wolves, Walsall, Lichfield, Tamworth)

Leeds -> Sheffield -> Nottingham forms quite a visible strip

England really is quite close together and the majority of our towns/major highways are lit.

[–]BourgeoisBanana 4 points5 points  (1 child)

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Brit here. You're never more than half an hour from civilisation in England, we're quite a densely populated country.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Glasgow is more than 1 hour's drive from the English border

tfw not part of civilisation

[–]flobin 4 points5 points  (2 children)

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The Dutch have lights everywhere on their highways.

No, that’s the Belgians.

[–]DoiF 2 points3 points  (1 child)

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No, that's us. The Dutch.

[–]Zorzarix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Cannot confirm. Drive the A28 towards Groningen. Only lights where another highway connects.

[–]LJForest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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we're a pretty densely populated country, Especially in the Midlands. Birmingham, Nottingham, Leicester and Derby which are all decently sized citys are only a few miles apart from each other.

[–]wggn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Dutchie here. Plenty of highways without lights still. But there's towns everywhere, often just a few km from each other. And most towns have their own brightly lit sports fields. There's also a ton of greenhouses around.

Closeup of the southwest side of NL, and northwest side of belgium by Andre Kuipers from the ISS: http://www.flickr.com/photos/astro_andre/6769497883/

The brightest spots are the greenhouses.

[–]duluoz1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Because this isn't a map of lights, it's a map of flickr and twitter updates.