Forest cover (thousand hectares)

Name: Forest cover (thousand hectares)
Creator: GK Maps

Russia has the highest Forest cover (thousand hectares) (2022) of any country, at 815,312 thousand hectares.

Forest cover (thousand hectares) — 162 countries (thousand hectares)
1	Russia	815,312
2	Brazil	494,196
3	Canada	346,854
4	United States of America	309,795
5	China	223,737
6	Australia	134,005
7	Dem. Rep. Congo	123,952
8	Indonesia	90,922
9	India	72,693
10	Peru	71,985
11	Angola	65,497
12	Mexico	65,437
13	Colombia	58,743
14	Bolivia	50,416
15	Venezuela	46,127
16	Tanzania	44,807
17	Zambia	44,438
18	Mozambique	36,267
19	Papua New Guinea	35,789
20	Argentina	28,355
21	Sweden	27,980
22	Myanmar	27,964
23	Japan	24,935
24	Gabon	23,507
25	Turkey	22,532
26	Finland	22,409
27	Central African Rep.	22,243
28	Congo	21,916
29	Nigeria	21,300
30	Cameroon	20,228
31	Thailand	19,801
32	Malaysia	19,014
33	Spain	18,581
34	Chile	18,457
35	Guyana	18,397
36	Sudan	18,015
37	France	17,420
38	Zimbabwe	17,352
39	South Africa	16,977
40	Ethiopia	16,923
41	Laos	16,527
42	Paraguay	15,544
43	Suriname	15,172
44	Botswana	15,018
45	Vietnam	14,795
46	Mongolia	14,171
47	Mali	13,296
48	Madagascar	12,403
49	Ecuador	12,369
50	Norway	12,196
51	Germany	11,419
52	Iran	10,776
53	New Zealand	9,932
54	Ukraine	9,702
55	Italy	9,674
56	Poland	9,507
57	Belarus	8,797
58	Ghana	8,000
59	Senegal	7,988
60	Cambodia	7,757
61	Liberia	7,557
62	Philippines	7,258
63	SSD	7,157
64	Romania	6,929
65	Namibia	6,497
66	Honduras	6,317
67	South Korea	6,267
68	Burkina Faso	6,116
69	Guinea	6,109
70	North Korea	5,988
71	Nepal	5,962
72	Morocco	5,763
73	Panama	4,191
74	Turkmenistan	4,127
75	Chad	4,091
76	Bulgaria	3,919
77	Greece	3,902
78	Austria	3,895
79	Uzbekistan	3,741
80	Pakistan	3,643
81	Kenya	3,611
82	Kazakhstan	3,513
83	Guatemala	3,505
84	Latvia	3,419
85	Portugal	3,312
86	Cuba	3,242
87	Nicaragua	3,208
88	United Kingdom	3,207
89	Costa Rica	3,068
90	Georgia	2,822
91	Serbia	2,723
92	Czechia	2,681
93	Côte d'Ivoire	2,611
94	Sierra Leone	2,495
95	Estonia	2,438
96	Eq. Guinea	2,432
97	Uganda	2,255
98	Lithuania	2,204
99	Bosnia and Herz.	2,188
100	Dominican Rep.	2,160
101	Malawi	2,158
102	Sri Lanka	2,107
103	Uruguay	2,073
104	Hungary	2,050
105	Algeria	1,968
106	Guinea-Bissau	1,963
107	Croatia	1,944
108	Slovakia	1,926
109	Bangladesh	1,883
110	Kyrgyzstan	1,352
111	Switzerland	1,276
112	Belize	1,255
113	Slovenia	1,234
114	Afghanistan	1,208
115	Togo	1,203
116	Fiji	1,153
117	Niger	1,055
118	North Macedonia	1,001
119	Saudi Arabia	977
120	Montenegro	827
121	Iraq	825
122	Ireland	790
123	Albania	789
124	Tunisia	706
125	Belgium	689
126	Denmark	630
127	Jamaica	605
128	El Salvador	575
129	Yemen	549
130	Syria	522
131	eSwatini	500
132	Tajikistan	426
133	Moldova	387
134	Brunei	380
135	Netherlands	371
136	Haiti	341
137	Armenia	328
138	United Arab Emirates	317
139	Mauritania	302
140	Burundi	280
141	Rwanda	278
142	Gambia	231
143	Trinidad and Tobago	227
144	Libya	217
145	Cyprus	172
146	Lebanon	145
147	Israel	140
148	Jordan	98
149	Luxembourg	89
150	Iceland	53
151	Egypt	45
152	MUS	39
153	Lesotho	35
154	Singapore	15
155	Barbados	6
156	Djibouti	6
157	Kuwait	6
158	Oman	2
159	Bahrain	1
160	Maldives	1
161	Malta	0
162	Qatar	0

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