What is Leia’s home planet before it is destroyed?

The story behind the answer

Raised by Senator Bail Organa and Queen Breha, she served as a princess and senator of a peaceful, culture-rich world that the Death Star destroys in A New Hope. To tell it apart from the distractors: Naboo is Padmé Amidala’s and Palpatine’s homeworld, Tatooine is the desert planet tied to Anakin and Luke, and Corellia is known for shipyards and as Han Solo’s birthplace.

Her world’s renowned pacifism, education, and natural beauty make its annihilation especially shocking and a pivotal moment that hardens her resolve and rallies support for the Rebel Alliance. Grand Moff Tarkin orders the strike as a demonstration of Imperial terror after her coerced “confession,” cementing the event as one of the saga’s defining tragedies.