The World Atlas of the Artificial Night Sky Brightness

[elSicomoro]

Originally posted by Katkeeper
Very interesting image and worth waiting for!

I am curious about the Falkland Islands, however. I had no idea they were so developed that they used so much electricity.

(I edited this from my initial reply)

I did some playing around on the Falklands government website, and most of their economy is now built upon fishing, which would go with what Tom mentioned in his post. The Falklands seem to be a very interesting place...their website is rather detailed. I guess you can be so detailed when you have a population of 2500 people.

http://www.falklands.gov.fk

It looks like the brightest areas are the Benelux countries (?!), southern Japan, and of course, the megalopolis of Boston-New York-Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington.

I was also surprised to see all the dark areas, particularly in the western US.