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Whole Earth land use (24x24 edition)

The 24x24 emoji grid below represents the entire 510 million km² of the Earth's surface. Each individual emoji represents approximatley 885,000 km². That's about the size of Pakistan, or a little bigger than two Californias. 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.

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Key

🌊 Oceans
🏔️ Glaciers
⛰️ Barren land
🌲 Forests
🌿 Shrubs
🌊 Freshwater
🌾 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
🏠 Urban and built-up land

Links

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 24x24 grid is designed to be viewed on a laptop screen or a monitor. It might not look good on a smartphone or other small-screened device:

You can see a 12x12 version for smaller screens here