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Whole Earth habitable land use (24x24 edition)

The 24x24 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 184,000 km2 of the Earth's surface. That's a little more than the size of Syria, or a little less than half the size of Germany, or about the size of North Dakota or Washington State. 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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🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🐄🐄🐄

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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 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