Table 4 Level of detail of RiceAtlas and selected global or regional rice calendars.

Metric/geographic region	RiceAtlas	FAO*	Sacks *et al*.²	MIRCA2000 ³
Countries covered (number)
Asia	31	_	22	31
Africa	42	26	30	42
Latin America and the Caribbean	26	24	23	26
Europe	11	_	3	11
Rest of the world	5	_	2	5
World	115	_	80	115
Spatial units (number)^†
Asia	1,121	_	89	94
Africa	966	113	33	42
Latin America and the Caribbean	87	45	24	65
Europe	24	_	3	11
Rest of the world	11	_	8	16
World	2,209	_	157	228
Number of spatial units with at least two seasons
Asia	630	_	27	64
Africa	239	117	3	27
Latin America	33	39	5	43
Europe	0	_	0	0
Rest of the world	2	_	0	3
World	904	_	35	137
Average resolution (000 km)
Asia	5	_	16	17
Africa	5	13	24	25
Latin America	15	21	29	18
Europe	28	_	17	42
Rest of the world	40	_	46	33
World	7	_	23	22
Average rice area per spatial unit (000 ha)
Asia	129	_	1,609	1,537
Africa	11	93	307	252
Latin America and the Caribbean	66	127	238	88
Europe	30	_	124	65
Rest of the world	116	_	221	80
World	74	_	1,027	714

* http://www.fao.org/agriculture/seed/cropcalendar/welcome.do and ref 1.
^†Calendars were dissolved and the values here refer to the number of contiguous spatial units with unique crop calendars.

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