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This article is a list of countries by forest area. Types of places listed include the entire planet, continents, regions, countries, provinces, states, and territories. Percentage data was calculated using information from the CIA's World Factbook 2011.[1]

Planet, continents and regions

This graph depicts trends in changes in global forest cover annually for various regions and sub-regions
Region Forest area (1000 ha) (2020)[2]
World 4,058,931
Europe 1,017,461
South America 844,186
North America and Central America 752,710
Africa 636,639
Asia 622,687
Oceania 185,248

List

Note: all measurements are ranked by square kilometre.

Country 1990[3] 2000 2010 2020 % forest (2010)
 Russia 8,089,500 8,092,685 8,151,356 - 47.7%
 Brazil 5,467,050 5,212,740 4,984,580 - 58.9%
 Canada 3,482,730 3,478,020 3,473,020 - 38.2%
 United States 3,024,500 3,035,360 3,087,200 - 33.7%
 Democratic Republic of the Congo 1,630,630 1,572,490 1,541,350 - 68.0%
 China 1,571,406 1,770,005 2,006,103 - 21.5%
 Australia 1,285,410 1,288,410 1,232,110 - 16.1%
 Indonesia 1,185,450 994,090 944,320 - 49.6%
 Peru 779,210 761,470 748,110 - 58.4%
 India 639,390 653,900 697,900 - 23.5%
 Mexico 697,600 678,560 664,980 - 34.6%
 Sudan [4] 763,814[5] 704,910 - - 28.1% [6]
 Colombia 644,170 617,984 586,353 - 56.3%
 Angola 609,760 597,280 584,800 - 46.9%
 Bolivia 627,950 600,910 562,090 - 51.8%
 Zambia 528,000 511,340 494,680 - 66.4%
 Tanzania 559,200 519,200 479,200 - 54.0%
 Venezuela 520,260 491,510 475,050 - 53.5%
 Mozambique 433,780 411,880 389,720 - 49.7%
 Papua New Guinea 336,270 336,000 335,730 - 74.0%
 Myanmar 392,180 348,680 317,730 - 48.4%
 Argentina 347,930 318,600 285,960 - 10.4%
 Sweden 280,630 281,630 280,730 - 68.3%
 Japan 249,500 248,760 249,660 - 66.1%
 Republic of the Congo 227,260 225,560 224,110 - 67.8%
 Central African Republic 225,600 224,040 222,480 - 35.7%
 Finland 218,750 224,450 222,180 - 72.9%
 Malaysia 223,760 215,910 221,240 - 67.1%
 Gabon 220,000 220,000 220,000 - 87.2%
 Cameroon 243,160 221,160 199,160 -
 Zimbabwe 221,640 188,940 156,240 -
 Paraguay 211,570 193,680 169,500 -
 Laos 176,449 165,259 178,155 -
 Nigeria 172,340 131,370 90,410 -
 Guyana 166,600 166,220 165,760 -
 Suriname 154,300 153,910 153,510 -
 Chile 152,630 158,340 162,310 -
 Ethiopia - 137,050 122,960 -
 France 144,360 152,890 164,240 -
 Thailand 140,050 170,110 162,490 -
 Spain 138,094 169,769 182,472 -
 Ecuador 146,308 137,289 129,415 -
 Botswana 137,180 125,350 113,510 -
 Madagascar 136,920 130,230 125,530 -
 Cambodia 129,440 115,460 100,940 -
 Mongolia 125,360 117,170 130,392 -
 Norway 121,320 121,130 121,020 -
 Germany 113,000 113,540 114,090 -
 Ivory Coast 102,220 103,280 104,030 -
 New Zealand 96,580 101,390 101,510 -
 Turkey 96,220 101,830 112,030 -
 Vietnam 93,630 117,270 141,280 -
 Senegal 93,480 88,980 84,730 -
 Ukraine 92,740 95,100 95,480 -
 South Africa 92,410 92,410 92,410 -
 Iran 90,760 93,256 106,919 -
 Poland 88,810 90,590 93,290 -
 Namibia 87,620 80,320 72,900 -
 Ghana 86,270 89,090 91,950 -
 Somalia 82,820 75,150 67,470 -
 North Korea 82,010 69,330 56,660 -
 Honduras 81,360 63,920 51,920 -
 Belarus 77,800 82,730 85,340 -
 Italy 75,900 83,690 90,280 -
 Guinea 72,640 69,040 65,440 -
 Burkina Faso 68,470 62,480 56,490 -
 Chad 67,050 63,260 55,080 -
 Mali 66,900 59,000 51,100 -
 Philippines 65,550 70,270 68,400 -
 Romania 63,710 63,660 65,150 -
 South Korea 63,700 62,880 62,220 -
 Benin 57,610 50,610 45,610 -
 Panama 50,400 48,670 46,990 -
 Morocco 49,540 49,930 56,720 -
 Liberia 49,290 46,290 43,290 -
   Nepal 48,170 39,000 66,003 - 44.74%
 Uganda 47,510 38,690 27,530 -
 Guatemala 47,480 42,080 37,220 -
 Kenya 47,240 35,570 42,300 -
 Nicaragua 45,140 38,140 31,140 -
 Turkmenistan 41,270 41,270 41,270 -
 Malawi 38,960 35,670 32,370 -
 Austria 37,760 38,380 38,600 -
 Portugal 34,360 33,430 32,390 -
 Kazakhstan 34,220 33,650 33,090 -
 Bulgaria 33,270 33,750 37,370 -
 Greece 32,990 36,010 39,030 -
 Latvia 31,730 32,410 33,540 -
 Sierra Leone 31,180 29,220 27,260 -
 Uzbekistan 30,450 32,120 32,755 -
 United Kingdom 27,780 29,540 30,590 -
 Georgia 27,520 27,606 28,224 -
 Czech Republic 26,290 26,370 26,570 -
 Costa Rica 25,640 23,760 26,050 -
 Pakistan 25,270 21,160 16,870 -
 Bhutan 25,067 26,020 27,052 -
 Serbia 24,760 24,760 27,130 -
 Solomon Islands 23,240 22,680 22,130 -
 Sri Lanka 22,840 21,920 21,030 -
 Guinea-Bissau 22,160 21,200 20,220 -
 Bosnia 22,100 21,850 21,850 -
 Estonia 22,060 22,430 22,340 -
 Cuba 20,580 24,350 29,320 -
 Lithuania 19,450 20,200 21,700 -
 Niger 19,450 13,280 12,040 -
 Slovakia 19,220 19,210 19,390 -
 Equatorial Guinea 18,600 17,430 16,260 -
 Croatia 18,500 18,850 19,200 -
 Hungary 18,010 19,170 20,460 -
 Algeria 16,670 15,790 19,180 -
 Eritrea 16,210 15,760 15,320 -
 Belize 16,160 14,593 13,913 -
 Bangladesh 14,940 14,680 14,420 -
 Afghanistan 13,500 13,500 13,500 -
 Slovenia 11,880 12,330 12,470 -
  Switzerland 11,510 11,940 12,350 -
 Dominican Republic 11,050 14,860 18,170 -
 Saudi Arabia 9,770 9,770 9,770 -
 East Timor - 8,540 7,420 -
 Fiji 9,529 9,804 9,929 -
 North Macedonia 9,120 9,580 9,980 -
 Azerbaijan 8,520 8,718 10,083 -
 New Caledonia 8,390 8,390 8,390 -
 Kyrgyzstan 8,360 8,583 6,770 -
 Iraq 8,040 8,180 8,250 -
 Uruguay 7,978 13,697 17,313 -
 Albania 7,888 7,693 7,763 -
 Togo 6,850 4,860 2,870 -
 Belgium 6,670 6,673 6,812 -
 Tunisia 6,430 8,370 9,900 -
 Yemen 5,490 5,490 5,490 -
 Denmark 5,432 5,855 5,871 -
 Bahamas 5,150 5,150 5,150 -
 Swaziland 4,720 5,180 5,630 -
 Ireland 4,650 6,349 7,256 -
 Gambia 4,420 4,610 4,800 -
 Vanuatu 4,400 4,400 4,400 -
 Mauritania 4,150 3,170 2,420 -
 Brunei 4,130 3,970 3,800 -
 Tajikistan 4,080 4,100 4,100 -
 El Salvador 3,770 3,320 2,870 -
 Syria 3,720 4,320 4,910 -
 Netherlands 3,450 3,600 3,730 -
 Jamaica 3,446 3,409 3,371 -
 Armenia 3,350 3,330 3,310 -
 Moldavia 3,190 3,240 3,860 -
 Rwanda 3,180 3,440 4,460 -
 Burundi 2,890 1,980 2,530 -
 Puerto Rico 2,870 4,500 4,794 -
 United Arab Emirates 2,450 3,100 3,173 -
 Trinidad and Tobago 2,407 2,336 2,264 -
 Libya 2,170 2,170 2,170 -
 Cyprus 1,611 1,716 1,728 -
 Israel 1,320 1,530 1,540 -
 Lebanon 1,310 1,310 1,369 -
 Samoa 1,300 1,710 1,710 -
 Haiti 1,160 1,090 1,010 -
 Jordan 975 975 975 -
 Luxembourg 870 867 867 -
 Micronesia 640 638 641 -
 Cape Verde 577 820 850 -
 São Tomé and Príncipe 560 560 536 -
 Dominica 500 473 446 -
 Comoros 490 450 390 -
 Egypt 440 590 700 -
 Mauritius 411 419 384 -
 Seychelles 406 406 406 -
 Lesotho 400 420 440 -
 Palau 380 395 403 -
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 250 260 270 -
 United States Virgin Islands 235[7] 204 181 -
 Saint Lucia 218 212 206 -
 American Samoa 183[8] 180 177 -
 Grenada 169 169 169 -
 Singapore 163 163 163 -
 Iceland 161 288 427 -
 Andorra 160 160 160 -
 Kiribati 121 121 121 -
 Cayman Islands 120[5] 120 - -
 Antigua and Barbuda 103 100 98 -
 Tonga 90 90 90 -
 Liechtenstein 65 69 69 -
 Barbados 63 63 63 -
 Djibouti 56 56 56 -
 Kuwait 34 48 62 -
 Oman 20 20 20 -
 Bermuda 10 10 10 -
 Maldives 10 10 10 -
 Tuvalu 10 10 10 -
Total[i] 41,282,694[9] 40,556,022 40,156,729 -

"-" in the table indicates no available information.

  1. ^ Total numbers may not add up due to the use of different sources.

Subdivisions and territories

Place Forest area (km2) Source % Forest
Russia  Krasnoyarsk Krai 1,510,016 [10] 63.80%
Russia  Sakha Republic 1,500,000 [11] 47.00%
Canada  Ontario 780,080 [12] 66.00%
Canada  Quebec 761,100 [13] 55.75%
Canada  Northwest Territories 570,418 50.00%
Canada  British Columbia 566,841 [14] 60.00%
United States  Alaska 522,044 [15] 30.39%
Canada  Nunavut 469,447 25.00%
Canada  Manitoba 411,270 75.00%
Canada  Alberta 384,049 60.00%
Peru Loreto 365,163 99.00%
Australia  Queensland 346,130 20.00%
Canada  Saskatchewan 325,419 55.00%
Canada  Yukon Territory 260,915 55.00%
Canada  Newfoundland and Labrador 243,017 65.00%
France France (Metropolitan) 170,000 [16] 30.95%
Australia  New South Wales 96,077 12.00%
 French Guiana 83,000 [17] 99.00%
Australia  Victoria 79,596 35.00%
Canada  New Brunswick 60,733 85.00%
Australia  Western Australia 50,598 02.00%
Australia  Tasmania 44,461 65.00%
Canada Newfoundland 41,440 [18] 38.07%
Australia  Northern Territory 40,474 03.00%
Canada  Nova Scotia 40,004 75.00%
Australia  South Australia 29,504 03.00%
United States  Hawaii 13,300 N/C 46.98%
United Kingdom  Scotland 14,570 [19] 18.49%
Western Sahara 10,110 [20] 03.80%
United Kingdom  England 13,080 [21] 10.03%
 New Caledonia 7,170 [20] 38.60%
Belgium  Wallonia 5,448 32.40%
Spain  Canary Islands 5,000 [22] 66.73%
United States  Puerto Rico 4,080 [20] 29.59%
France  Corsica 4,018 [23] 46.00%
United Kingdom  Wales 3,090 [24] 14.88%
France  French Polynesia 2,000 [25] 52.30%
Canada  Prince Edward Island 1,705 30.00%
Belgium  Flanders 1,464 10.80%
 Reunion 1,370 [26] 53.00%
 Northern Ireland 1,130 [27] 8.80%
Portugal  Azores 830 [28] 35.38%
 Guadeloupe 640 [17] 39.00%
 Martinique 490 [17] 46.00%
China  Hong Kong 400 [29] 36.36%
United Kingdom  Turks and Caicos Islands 340 [20] 35.86%
United States  Northern Mariana Islands 330 [20] 71.12%
United States  Guam 260 [20] 47.79%
United States  American Samoa 180 [20] 90.45%
New Zealand  Niue 169 to 182 [30] 65.00 to 70.00%
Portugal  Madeira 150 [31] 18.73%
New Zealand  Cook Islands 142 [32] 60.00%
 Mayotte 140 [17] 37.00%
United Kingdom  Cayman Islands 120 [20] 45.45%
United States  United States Virgin Islands 100 [20] 28.87%
United Kingdom  Anguilla 55 N/C 60.44%
 Wallis and Futuna 47 N/C 33.10%
United Kingdom  British Virgin Islands 40 [20] 26.49%
United Kingdom  Montserrat 35 N/C 34.31%
United Kingdom  Pitcairn 35 N/C 74.47%
United Kingdom  Isle of Man 30 [20] 05.24%
 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 30 [20] 12.40%
United Kingdom  Saint Helena 20 [20] 16.39%
Belgium  Brussels 17.35 10.00%
Netherlands  Netherlands Antilles 12 N/C 01.50%
United Kingdom  Bermuda 10 [20] 18.52%
United Kingdom Jersey Guernsey Channel Islands 8 N/C 04.12%
Netherlands  Aruba 4 N/C 02.22%
Denmark  Greenland 2 N/C 00.00%
Denmark  Faroe Islands 1 N/C 00.07%

See also

References

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