Astronaut Alper Gezeravcı captured from ISS Izmir, the third most populous city in Turkey.
İzmir is a metropolitan city after Istanbul and Ankara; and the second largest urban agglomeration on the Aegean Sea after Athens. Izmir has 3 million population and the metropolitan area extends along the outlying waters of the Gulf of İzmir and inland to the north across the Gediz River Delta. In classical antiquity the city was known as Smyrna with more than 3,000 years of recorded urban history, and up to 8,500 years of history as a human settlement since the Neolithic period. Lying on an advantageous location at the head of a gulf running down in a deep indentation, midway along the western Anatolian coast, it has been one of the principal mercantile cities of the Mediterranean Sea for much of its history.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Alper Gezeravcı’s Tweet
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