land cover islands

If you collected together all the land that was desert, all the land that was grassland, forest, cropland, etc. and gave each type of land cover an island of its own, this is how those islands could appear. Note how small the 'urban' island is, yet it is home to over 50% of humans.

 

Data: IIASA (www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/GAEZ/tab/t44.htm)

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