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Whole Earth habitable land use (12x12 edition)

The 12x12 emoji grid below represents the 106 million km² of the Earth's surface which are habitable (i.e. what's left after excluding the oceans, deserts, glaciers, etc.). Each individual emoji represents approximatley 736,000 km² of the Earth's surface. That's a little more than twice the size of Germany, or a little less than twice the size of Japan, or a bit bigger than Texas. 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

🌲 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

This emoji grid isn't visualising the whole Earth, just the habitable land: oceans, deserts, rocky mountains, glaciers and things like that are excluded.

You can see a version for the whole Earth here

This 12x12 grid is designed to fit comfortably on a smartphone or other small-screened device.

You can see a 24x24 version for larger screens here