Earth

Description
For detailed information, please refer to the standard issue Alliance Galactic Codex. Earth's orbit is riddled with debris generated by "bootstrap" space development; use of kinetic barriers is recommended at altitudes over 85 km.

Population (Surface): 11.4 billion

Population (L4 and L5 stations): 250,000

Mineral Deposits
Earth cannot be mined.

Trivia

 * If viewed from Luna, the Earth appears as a mirror image.
 * Known human governments on Earth include the United North American States, the European Union, and the Chinese People's Federation.
 * New Calcutta is one of Earth's wealthiest regions. Hendel Mitra, the security chief for the Ascension project, is said to be from the suburbs of this city.
 * The three major cities of the US state Texas, San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston, have merged into what is called the Texan Megapolis. This is one of the poorer regions of the planet. Kahlee Sanders, one of the protagonists of the books Mass Effect: Revelation, Mass Effect: Ascension, and Mass Effect: Retribution was born here.
 * According to Mass Effect: Incursion, the exact human population of Earth in 2183 is 11,490,225,106.
 * In Mass Effect 2, when entering Earth's orbit, the planet is shown to be spinning backwards (effectively making the Sun rise in the west).
 * Earth will be a significant setting in Mass Effect 3.