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World's most and least forested countries
Countries with the highest proportion of forests in relation to the total land area
- French Guiana: 96.6%
- Suriname: 94.5%
- Guyana: 93.5%
- Micronesia:
92.1%
- Gabon:
91.2%
- Palau:
90.4%
- Solomon Islands:
90.1%
- Equatorial Guinea:
86.7%
- American Samoa:
85.4%
- Papua New Guinea: 79.0%
- Liberia:
78.5%
- Pitcairn:
74.5%
- Finland:
73.7%
- Seychelles:
73.3%
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:
73.2%
- Niue:
72.7%
- Brunei:
72.1%
- Laos:
71.6%
- Bhutan:
71.6%
- Guinea-Bissau:
69.8%
- Sweden:
68.7%
- Japan:
68.4%
- Cook Islands:
65.0%
- Congo:
64.2%
- South Korea:
64.2%
Countries with very little (less than 1% of the total area) or no forests
- Bahrain: 0.9%
- Algeria: 0.8%
- Niger: 0.8%
- Saudi Arabia: 0.5%
- Iceland: 0.5%
- Kuwait: 0.4%
- Mauritania: 0.3%
- Djibouti: 0.3%
- Curaçao: 0.2%
- Libya: 0.1%
- Faroe Islands: 0.1%
- <0.1% forests
- Egypt: 450 km2 of forests
- Oman: 24 km2 of forests
- Greenland: 2 km2 of forests
- no forest
- Falkland Islands
- Gibraltar
- Vatican City
- Monaco
- Nauru
- Qatar
- Tokelau
Source: Wikipedia
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