This article is about planet Earth and all life upon it, including human civilization.

For other uses,

see Earth or World (disambiguation).

The Blue Marble, a photograph of the planet Earth made on December 7, 1972 by the crew of the Apollo
17spacecraft.

A geopolitical world map of shorelines and national borders as of 2016 under the Robinson projection

the celestial, spiritual, transcendent or sacred spheres. "End of the world" scenarios refer to the end
of human history, often in religious contexts.
The history of the world is commonly understood as spanning the major geopolitical developments of
about five millennia, from the
The world population is the sum of all human populations at any time; similarly, the world economy is
the sum of the economies of all societies or countries, especially in the context of globalization.
Terms such as "world championship", "gross world product", and "world flags" imply the sum or
combination of all sovereign states.