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Whole Earth land use (12x12 edition)

The 12x12 emoji grid below represents the entire 510 million km² of the Earth's surface. Each individual emoji represents Each individual emoji represents approximately 3.5 million km². That's a little more than the size of India, and three emojis together are about as big as Canada, China or the USA. The different emojis show what that land is used for, either by humans or by nature. There's a key below. The emojis are ordered from most to least total land use. For the purpose of this ordering, all livestock are grouped together, though they are visualised separately.

🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲

🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄

🐄🐖🐖🐔⛰️⛰️⛰️⛰️⛰️⛰️⛰️⛰️

🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🌾🌾🌾

Key

🌊 Oceans
🏔️ Glaciers
⛰️ Barren land (deserts, beaches, exposed rock, etc.)
🌲 Forests
🌿 Shrubs
🌾 Land used to grow crops
🐄 Land used to raise cows
🐖 Land used to raise pigs
🐑 Land used to raise sheep
🐔 Land used to raise chickens

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Because this emoji grid is visualising the whole Earth, which is mostly ocean, fine detail is not represented well, and human beings can't change the big picture because we don't really make use of oceans, deserts, rocky mountains, glaciers and things like that:

You can see a version for just the habitable part of the Earth here

This 12x12 grid is designed to fit comfortably on a smartphone or other small-screened device. It might look tiny on a big desktop monitor:

You can see a 24x24 version for larger screens here