You can’t literally see lights from space or whatever. If somewhere had less coverage on google maps you wouldn’t think it’s uninhabited, but for some reason, people irl seem to be constantly referring to this image as though it’s a literal picture. Mostly for ‘civilized’ reasons, but also light pollution and just other stuff. Maybe this just made the rounds on reddit or something?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamalo-Nenets_Autonomous_Okrug

looks like its this area. Lots of resource extraction going on

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