- Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team
- This true-color MODIS image shows southern British Columbia (upper left) and Washington State. In the left center of the image lies Vancouver Island, which is separated from Washington by the Juan de Fuca Strait. British Columbia’s glacier-capped Coast Mountain Range runs northwest-southeast inland from Vancouver Island. The brownish region to the interior of Washington and Oregon to the south is the Columbia Plateau, cut off from Pacific Ocean moisture by the Cascade Mountain Range, home to Mt. Rainer. Mt. Rainer is the white cluster of pixels to the immediate east-southeast of where Puget Sound dips far south into Washington.
- Bangkok (Wikipedia)
Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies 1,568.7 square kilometres (605.7 sq mi) in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated population of 10.539 million as of 2020, 15.3 percent of the country’s population. Over 14 million people (22.2 percent) lived within the surrounding Bangkok Metropolitan Region at the 2010 census, making Bangkok an extreme primate city, dwarfing Thailand’s other urban centres in both size and importance to the national economy.
