Earth

Earth (Terra in Ancient, Midgard to the Humans settled by the Asgard, Tau'ri in Goa'uld), and designated P2X-3YZ by the Tau'ri, is the home planet for the SG teams and around six billion Humans. Stargate Command is located in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, United States of America.

History
Earth was among the first planets that the Ancients colonized when they left their home galaxy. Some five million years ago, the Ancients were forced to leave in Atlantis for Pegasus due to a plague. They eventually returned after the war with the Wraith.

Shortly afterwards, the Goa'uld System Lord Ra discovered Earth, and took it for his own, ruling for 5,000 years. An alternate SG-1 travelled back in time and helped the ancient humans rebel against Ra, who abandoned Earth.

Thanks to the rediscovery of the Stargate, the Tau'ri come to find out that Humans live on other planets in addition to Earth, each with their own unique cultures. As the Stargate program progresses, the term Tau'ri eventually came to be used to specifically identify humans from Earth.

==Continents==
 * Africa
 * Antarctica
 * America
 * Asia
 * Australasia
 * Europe

Alternate realities

 * In an alternate reality Earth was attacked by Apophis and most major cities were destroyed. Efforts to combat the invasion were headed in Cheyenne Mountain by the SGA. Samantha Carter stated that Washington D.C. and Philadelphia had been lost. Cities that, based on the SGA's map, were almost certainly destroyed include the following: Cairo, London, Moscow, New York City, and Paris. Colorado Springs was presumably destroyed during the attack on Cheyenne Mountain. The Goa'uld attack started in Europe, Asia and Africa before spreading to the United States. Since the destruction started on the East Coast and moved west and Daniel Jackson left the reality when it reached Colorado, the annihilation of the West Coast was unseen.


 * In an alternate reality Earth was attacked by Apophis and the SGA was invaded. Earth was saved when Samantha Carter successfully contacted the Asgard.

Behind the scenes
While never given a planetary designation during any of the on-screen material&mdash;other than "Earth" or "Tau'ri"&mdash;Earth is identified as P2X-3YZ in the Secrets Files of the SGC bonus features on the Stargate SG-1 DVD's. In these features, the "viewer" is said to be viewing top secret SGC files which give the viewers location as being P2X-3YZ.