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'''{{wp|Earth}}''' is a planet that on which a wide variety of people, cultures, and ecosystems reside. While the Earth that appears in the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'']] franchise has some features derived from the non-fictional entity, fictional alterations to the planet have also been applied. [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] has stated that the backstory of ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' has [[Mario]] arrive in the [[Mushroom Kingdom]] through one of the [[Warp Pipes]] seen in ''[[Mario Bros. (game)|Mario Bros.]]'' in [[New York City]] on Earth.<ref name="interview">[https://www.ndw.jp/mario-interview-230425/2/  インタビュー  マリオ映画公開記念！宮本茂さんインタビュー 制作の始まりから驚きの設定まで] (April 25, 2023). ''Nintendo Dream Web''. Retrieved April 25, 2023</ref> Similar depictions include those of the [[DIC Entertainment|DIC]] cartoons, in which the "'''Real World'''" is separate from the world of the Mushroom Kingdom, and ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'', in which Earth and the Mushroom Kingdom are in separate worlds connected by a [[Warp Zone]]. Later games have depicted the world of the Mushroom Kingdom as Earth or an Earth-like planet, sometimes incorporating places from the real world merged into the world of the Mushroom Kingdom.

Another Earth<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD_K8veKC14&t=538s "Perhaps the best way to say it is that the human characters you're encountering here and Mario also live on ''an'' Earth together"] [[Kenta Motokura]]</ref> serves as the planet where the [[Mushroom Kingdom]] and other lands reside. ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' features [[Mario]] traveling between the planet and others across space, while ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'' features him traveling between continents on the planet. In games such as the ''[[Mario & Sonic (series)|Mario & Sonic]]'' series and ''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'', locations from the real world Earth also exist on the planet, suggesting that the two worlds are merged in these instances.