The Pakistan-India border can be easily seen from space, thanks to the 3,323-kilometre-long (2,065 miles) security lights all along the border.
North Korea appears almost fully blacked out in this night image of the Korean Peninsula taken by the Expedition 38 crew aboard the ISS in February 2014.
In this Nov. 2011 image taken from the ISS by the Expedition 29 crew, a visible line marks about 30 miles of the border between Egypt and Israel. A road separates the two countries.
In this 2002 satellite image, the Dominican Republic on the right appears far greener. This is the result of deforestation in Haiti.
The image captured by NASA shows northwestern China near the city of Qoqek and the far eastern part of Kazakhstan near Lake Balqash.
This October 2014 image taken from the ISS shows US and Mexico separated by both the Rio Grande and a wall.