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Shanghai Interchange
A highway interchange connects three major roads - the S20, G60, and S4 - in Shanghai, China. The city is home to roughly 2.5 million cars and 24 million people.
31.118920°,121.388230°
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Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam is a 221-meter-high (726-foot), 379-meter (1,244-foot) concrete arch-gravity dam, located on the Colorado River at the border of Arizona and Nevada, USA. Constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression, a workforce of approximately 20,000 poured a total of 3.33 million cubic meters (4.36 million cubic yards) of concrete to complete the structure – enough to pave a two-lane highway from San Francisco to New York City.
36.015844°,-114.738804°
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Ventura Fire
Wildfires, visible at center, burn in Ventura, California. Numerous blazes have already destroyed hundreds of homes and thousands of residents have fled the surrounding areas. The largest fire has expanded to cover an area roughly the size as the city of Orlando. To be very clear, the two white streaks seen here at left are cloud cover, not fires.
34.275000°,-119.227778°
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Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital and the largest city in Portugal with an estimated population of 552,700. This Overview captures a sizable portion of the downtown area, including the green space at right called Parque Eduardo VII — a massive city park known for its exotic plants, monuments, and panoramic views of the city. Lisbon is the only capital in Europe located on the Atlantic Ocean.
38.716287°,-9.139480°
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Tampa International Airport (TPA)
Designed in the 1960’s, Tampa International Airport's Landside/Airside design was the first of its type in the world. In this layout, baggage and ticketing functions take place in a central "Landside Terminal” which is surrounded by four “Airside” satellite terminals where planes embark and disembark.
27.975906°,-82.534138°
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Port of Hamburg
The Port of Hamburg - known as Germany’s “Gateway to the World” - is located on the Elbe River in Hamburg. On an average day, the facility is accessed by 28 ships, 200 freight trains, and 5,000 trucks. In total, the port moves 132.3 million tonnes of cargo each year - that’s roughly 1/3 of the mass of all living human beings.
53.532581°,9.916544°
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Guadalajara
Guadalajara is the second most populous city in Mexico with a population of nearly 1.5 million. It is also one of the country’s cultural centers, considered by many to be the home of mariachi music.
20.689540°,-103.312179°
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Het Loo Palace
Het Loo Palace is located in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. “The Great Garden,” situated behind the residence, follows the general Baroque landscape design formula: perfect symmetry, axial layout with radiating gravel walks, parterres with fountains, basins, and statues.
52.234167°,5.945833°
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New York City Low-Angle
Check out this remarkable view of downtown New York City captured by the DigitalGlobe Worldview-3 satellite at an extremely low-angle. We’re pumped to announce that we just added this shot to our Printshop along with four others. You can check out what we added here:
40.717000°,-74.003000°
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Sun Lakes
Sun Lakes, Arizona, USA is a planned community with a population of approximately 14,000 residents, most of whom are senior citizens. According to US census data, only 0.1% of the community’s 6,683 households are home to children under the age of 18.
33.208518°,-111.876263°
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Mount Taranaki
Mount Taranaki, also known as Mount Egmont, is an active stratovolcano on the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island. A change in vegetation is sharply delineated between the protected national forest that encircles the volcano and the surrounding land comprised of intensively-farmed dairy pastures.
-39.296766°,174.045846°
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Eagles Super Bowl Parade
Millions of fans flooded the streets of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, yesterday to attend the Super Bowl parade for the Eagles’ championship victory. Official estimates suggest more than two million fans were in attendance, including a massive collection of people seen here in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
39.965570°,-75.180966°
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Antofagasta, Chile
Waves of the Pacific Ocean roll into the city of Antofagasta, situated on the coast of Chile. Because this area is situated in the Atacama Desert - the driest region in the world - it has incredibly sparse vegetation. In total, Antofagasta is home to roughly 400,000 residents and is the third largest city in the county.
-23.628354°,-70.474769°
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Washington Monument
To celebrate Presidents Day in the United States, here is the Washington Monument - an obelisk located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Standing 555 feet 5 1/8 inches (169.294 m) tall, the structure was built to commemorate George Washington, the first President of the United States. The structure was completed in 1885; is made out of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss; and is recognized as the world's tallest stone structure.
38.889469°,-77.035258°
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DuSable Harbor
Sailboats are docked at DuSable Harbor in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The facility is located on Lake Michigan in the heart of the city’s downtown area and contains 420 slips for boats between 30 to 60 feet in length.
41.885597°,-87.611850°
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Greek Olive Groves
Olive tree groves surround the village of Ινία, Greece. Approximately 90% of all harvested olives are turned into oil; the remaining 10% are eaten as table olives.
35.078525°,25.047392°
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Seoul
Seoul is the capital and largest city in South Korea with a population greater than 25 million. Situated on the Han River, Seoul's history stretches back over two thousand years to when it was founded in 18 BC by the people of Baekje. The Gangnam District, which literally means “South of the River”, is visible in this Overview.
37.512000°,127.017900°
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Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge is a 1.7 mile long suspension bridge in San Francisco, California that spans the Golden Gate Strait, the mile-wide channel between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The bridge’s signature color, known as “international orange”, was selected to complement its natural surroundings and enhance its visibility in fog.
37.819907°,-122.478558°
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Parking Lot For Illegal Volkswagens
Thousands of diesel-powered Volkswagens are parked at Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, California. While this facility is known for its airplane graveyard, Volkswagen has leased enough land here to park 21,0000 vehicles. Following its emission scandal in 2015, the company gave customers the option to sell their cars back to the company. More than 340,000 customers have elected to return their vehicles so far.
34.597500°,-117.383056°
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Tibet Colorful Mountains
Bright colors accent the peaks and valleys of a mountain range in Ngamring County, a remote section of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China. Population density in this area is slightly more than 4 people per square mile, or 2.5 per square kilometer.
29.907778°,86.555000°
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