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  • Mapping and Reporting Units (MRUs) are 65 large spatial units covering the globe and used by the CropWatch unit in the Chinese Academy of Sciences to monitor worldwide agroclimatic patterns, before zooming into specific areas defined by smaller polygons. The MRUs are modified from the Ecological Zones map (GEZ) designed for reporting forest and forest change statistics in the ambit of the FAO Forest Resources Assessment. The dataset includes the shapefiles together with their names in English and in Chinese as well as two tables providing three sets of variables related to environment, agriculture and seasonality to characterise the polygons.