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Native to America, corn is now a staple in diets around the world. This map shows the global distribution of corn in 2000.


NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen using crop data from Monfreda et al. (2008). Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published November 25, 2010
Data acquired January 1 - December 31, 2000

Source:
Terra > MODIS