Data & credits

GeoMiniGames is built entirely on open data. Thank you to the people who publish it.

Population

GHSL GHS-POP R2023A, epoch 2025, 3 arc-second grid. © European Union, 1995–2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: Global Human Settlement Layer, European Commission Joint Research Centre. Changes: population summed over each game square by GeoMiniGames.

WorldPop global 2025 population, 1 km, constrained, UN-adjusted (R2025A). www.worldpop.org, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Used only to cross-check GHSL: squares where the two disagree by more than three times were left out.

Satellite imagery

Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024–2025. Sentinel-2 Level-2A imagery from the European Union's Copernicus programme, accessed through the Registry of Open Data on AWS and Element 84 Earth Search. Changes: cropped, reprojected, resampled and combined into one image per square.

Night lights

NASA Black Marble 2016 (VIIRS), served by NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System. Public domain. Use does not imply NASA endorsement.

Elevation

Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Accessed through the Registry of Open Data on AWS.

Cities

City names and locations from Natural Earth populated places (public domain). Distances are computed on the WGS84 ellipsoid by GeoMiniGames.

Borders and land

Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Countries, land, lakes and disputed areas at 1:10m scale (public domain).

Fonts

Geist by Vercel, SIL Open Font License.