Madinah, Saudi Arabia - surrounded by three massive volcanic fields and situated on the Arabian Shield, a 540-million-year-old geological formation - is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above the Arabian Peninsula. Madinah is the Middle Eastern nation's second holiest city in Islam with a population of about 1.6 million. A photograph taken from the International Space Station on 20 December 2025. An optimised version of an original NASA image: Credit NASA
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Earth photo at night, City Lights of Europe, Middle East, Turkey, Italy, Mediterrenian, Black Sea from space. Elements of this image furnished by NASA