Pyramids of Giza
29.98° N · 31.13° E
Heritage of humanity, on the map of the atlas.
02 · Atlas Library
The Earth, one bioregion.
The Earth as one bioregion: continents, oceans, biomes, great sites, peoples and languages. One planet united by nature, not divided by borders.
Sources in every card · References
01The NEO Atlas
Every place of the library, on one map.
Great sites, natural wonders, 244 peoples, the regions of 58 language families and the line between day and night, live. Search, switch the layers, or press ▶ to fly from place to place.
Fly through the atlas: press ▶ to fly
Base maps © Esri and OpenStreetMap contributors · language regions and continents: Natural Earth (public domain), schematic · the full bioregional atlas: NEO Bioregional Atlas.
02The Earth in figures
The Earth and the cosmos in brief.
NEO Library is the universal library: one planet united by nature, not divided by borders, inside a universe of about 13.8 billion years. The Earth has about 149 million square kilometres of land (29% of its surface) and 361 million square kilometres of ocean (71%), home to about 8.2 billion people, some 7,000 living languages and millions of species.
13.8 billion yearsUniverse · Age of the cosmos (Planck 2018)
8.2 billionPeople · World population (UN, 2025)
≈ 7,000Languages · Living languages (Ethnologue)
476 millionOriginal peoples · In about 90 countries (UN)
≈ 2.1 millionSpecies · Described so far; millions more unknown
71%Ocean · Of the Earth's surface
- Universe
- ≈ 13.8 billion years old (Planck 2018)
- Earth
- ≈ 4.54 billion years old · 510 million km² surface
- Land and ocean
- ≈ 149 million km² of land (29%) · ≈ 361 million km² of ocean (71%)
- Population
- ≈ 8.2 billion people (UN, 2025)
- Nations
- 193 UN member states and 2 observer states
- Living languages
- ≈ 7,000 (Ethnologue lists about 7,160)
- Original peoples
- ≈ 476 million people in about 90 countries (UN)
- Species
- ≈ 2.1 million described; ≈ 8.7 million estimated (Mora et al., 2011)
- World Heritage
- More than 1,200 sites (UNESCO)
- Solar System
- 1 star, 8 planets, 5 recognized dwarf planets
- Continents
- Africa · Americas · Antarctica · Asia · Europe · Oceania
- Time
- Dozens of living calendars: Gregorian, Hijri, Hebrew, Chinese, Persian, Indian, Ethiopian, Maya and Mexica counts
Sources: UN DESA World Population Prospects, United Nations, Ethnologue, IUCN, Mora et al. (PLoS Biology 2011), ESA Planck, NASA, UNESCO.
03Great sites
Cities and monuments of humanity.
18 great sites, from Göbekli Tepe to Machu Picchu; each card opens its place on the NEO Atlas.
Nothing here matches yet. Ask the librarian.
Teotihuacan
19.69° N · 98.84° W
Heritage of humanity, on the map of the atlas.
Machu Picchu
13.16° S · 72.55° W
Heritage of humanity, on the map of the atlas.
Angkor Wat
13.41° N · 103.87° E
Heritage of humanity, on the map of the atlas.
Petra
30.33° N · 35.44° E
Heritage of humanity, on the map of the atlas.
Great Wall · Mutianyu
40.43° N · 116.57° E
Heritage of humanity, on the map of the atlas.
Stonehenge
51.18° N · 1.83° W
Heritage of humanity, on the map of the atlas.
Chichén Itzá
20.68° N · 88.57° W
Heritage of humanity, on the map of the atlas.
Great Zimbabwe
20.27° S · 30.93° E
Heritage of humanity, on the map of the atlas.
Borobudur
7.61° S · 110.20° E
Heritage of humanity, on the map of the atlas.
Acropolis of Athens
37.97° N · 23.73° E
Heritage of humanity, on the map of the atlas.
Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
27.12° S · 109.37° W
Heritage of humanity, on the map of the atlas.
Lalibela
12.03° N · 39.04° E
Heritage of humanity, on the map of the atlas.
Persepolis
29.93° N · 52.89° E
Heritage of humanity, on the map of the atlas.
Mohenjo-daro
27.33° N · 68.14° E
Heritage of humanity, on the map of the atlas.
Göbekli Tepe
37.22° N · 38.92° E
Heritage of humanity, on the map of the atlas.
Cahokia
38.66° N · 90.06° W
Heritage of humanity, on the map of the atlas.
Tikal
17.22° N · 89.62° W
Heritage of humanity, on the map of the atlas.
04Natural wonders
The living wonders of the one bioregion.
14 reserves of forests, reefs, savannas and ice that every people keeps.
Galápagos Islands
0.75° S · 90.50° W
A living wonder of the one bioregion, on the map of the atlas.
Serengeti
2.33° S · 34.83° E
A living wonder of the one bioregion, on the map of the atlas.
Great Barrier Reef
18.29° S · 147.70° E
A living wonder of the one bioregion, on the map of the atlas.
Central Amazon
2.00° S · 62.00° W
A living wonder of the one bioregion, on the map of the atlas.
Yellowstone
44.60° N · 110.50° W
A living wonder of the one bioregion, on the map of the atlas.
Kilimanjaro
3.07° S · 37.35° E
A living wonder of the one bioregion, on the map of the atlas.
Lake Baikal
53.50° N · 108.20° E
A living wonder of the one bioregion, on the map of the atlas.
Sundarbans
21.95° N · 89.18° E
A living wonder of the one bioregion, on the map of the atlas.
Sagarmatha (Everest)
27.99° N · 86.93° E
A living wonder of the one bioregion, on the map of the atlas.
Iguazú
25.69° S · 54.44° W
A living wonder of the one bioregion, on the map of the atlas.
Okavango Delta
19.30° S · 22.90° E
A living wonder of the one bioregion, on the map of the atlas.
Ha Long Bay
20.91° N · 107.18° E
A living wonder of the one bioregion, on the map of the atlas.
Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa
25.34° S · 131.04° E
A living wonder of the one bioregion, on the map of the atlas.
Sian Ka'an
19.60° N · 87.60° W
A living wonder of the one bioregion, on the map of the atlas.
05Words of the atlas
The terms of the library.
Every concept is a term, connected, in every language, with its sources.
- Bioregion
- A region defined by nature — water, soil, climate, species — rather than by borders.
- Biome
- A large community of life shaped by climate: rainforest, desert, tundra, coral reef.
- NEOLEDGE
- The knowledge NEO shares, generates, organizes and spreads: every concept a term, connected, in every language, with its sources.