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Türkiye - Forest Area 2012

Name: Türkiye Forest Area 2012
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

27.68% +0.14% from 2011 Global rank: 117th

Türkiye's forest area was 27.68% in 2012, increased +0.14% from 27.54% in 2011. This was the 117th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2012▾

Forest Area by Country - 2012
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	95.20%	-0.1%
2nd	Guyana	93.96%	-0.1%
3rd	Micronesia, Federated States of	91.69%	0.0%
4th	Gabon	91.69%	-0.1%
5th	Solomon Islands	90.35%	0.0%
6th	Equatorial Guinea	89.67%	-0.3%
7th	Palau	88.55%	0.2%
8th	American Samoa	86.85%	-0.2%
9th	Liberia	81.60%	-0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	79.75%	-0.1%
11th	Finland	73.41%	0.1%
12th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
13th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	73.18%	0.0%
14th	Lao PDR	73.10%	-0.2%
15th	Guinea-Bissau	72.81%	-0.4%
16th	Brunei Darussalam	72.11%	0.0%
17th	Bhutan	71.08%	0.1%
18th	Sweden	68.83%	-0.1%
19th	Japan	68.47%	0.0%
20th	Korea	65.43%	-0.3%
21st	Northern Mariana Islands	65.19%	-0.6%
22nd	Congo, Republic of	64.57%	-0.1%
23rd	Dominica	63.83%	0.0%
24th	Timor-Leste	62.70%	-0.1%
25th	Zambia	62.31%	-0.4%
26th	Slovenia	61.92%	0.0%
27th	Montenegro	61.49%	0.0%
28th	Brazil	60.84%	-0.3%
29th	Belize	59.97%	-0.8%
30th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	59.53%	-0.8%
31st	Fiji	59.47%	0.6%
32nd	São Tomé and Principe	59.23%	-1.1%
33rd	Samoa	58.49%	-0.3%
34th	Honduras	58.37%	-0.3%
35th	Malaysia	58.30%	0.5%
36th	Panama	57.91%	-0.3%
37th	Peru	57.58%	-0.2%
38th	Angola	56.99%	-0.8%
39th	Costa Rica	56.87%	0.6%
40th	Cambodia	56.04%	-3.4%
41st	Estonia	55.91%	0.7%
42nd	Tanzania	55.55%	-0.8%
43rd	Puerto Rico (US)	55.52%	0.1%
44th	Colombia	54.56%	-0.2%
45th	Latvia	54.31%	0.1%
46th	Virgin Islands (US)	53.49%	0.8%
47th	Cayman Islands	53.00%	0.0%
48th	Jamaica	52.27%	0.7%
49th	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
50th	Ecuador	52.12%	-0.3%
51st	Indonesia	52.09%	-0.9%
52nd	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
53rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	51.49%	-0.3%
54th	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
55th	Russian Federation	49.77%	0.0%
56th	Mozambique	49.03%	-0.5%
57th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	48.61%	-0.4%
58th	Myanmar	47.25%	-0.9%
59th	Paraguay	47.17%	-2.2%
60th	Austria	46.90%	0.1%
61st	Zimbabwe	46.05%	-0.3%
62nd	New Caledonia	45.89%	0.0%
63rd	Guam	45.19%	0.8%
64th	Trinidad and Tobago	45.14%	-0.2%
65th	Cameroon	43.98%	-0.3%
66th	Viet Nam	43.57%	0.9%
67th	Senegal	43.57%	-0.5%
68th	Dominican Republic	43.17%	0.3%
69th	French Polynesia	43.06%	0.0%
70th	Belarus	42.54%	0.0%
71st	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
72nd	Liechtenstein	41.87%	0.0%
73rd	Nepal	41.59%	0.0%
74th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	41.52%	0.5%
75th	Georgia	40.62%	0.0%
76th	Slovak Republic	39.92%	0.0%
77th	European Union	39.36%	0.2%
78th	Thailand	39.28%	0.0%
79th	Canada	38.73%	0.0%
80th	North Macedonia	38.62%	0.7%
81st	New Zealand	37.40%	0.0%
82nd	Sierra Leone	37.31%	-0.7%
83rd	Spain	37.08%	-0.1%
84th	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
85th	Central African Republic	36.19%	-0.1%
86th	Portugal	35.77%	0.4%
87th	Ghana	34.80%	-0.2%
88th	Bulgaria	34.78%	0.5%
89th	Lithuania	34.73%	0.2%
90th	Czechia	34.47%	0.1%
91st	Luxembourg	34.45%	0.0%
92nd	Croatia	34.32%	0.0%
93rd	Mexico	34.31%	-0.2%
94th	Guatemala	34.23%	-0.7%
95th	St. Lucia	34.05%	0.0%
96th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
97th	Nicaragua	33.87%	-1.4%
98th	United States	33.81%	0.1%
99th	Sri Lanka	33.71%	0.2%
100th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
101st	Norway	33.18%	0.1%
102nd	Germany	32.75%	0.0%
103rd	Switzerland	31.42%	0.3%
104th	Benin	31.35%	-1.4%
105th	Serbia	31.05%	0.0%
106th	Italy	30.89%	0.6%
107th	France	30.77%	0.5%
108th	Poland	30.58%	0.2%
109th	Greece	30.27%	0.0%
110th	El Salvador	29.92%	-0.7%
111th	Romania	28.99%	1.2%
112th	Albania	28.65%	0.2%
113th	Botswana	28.59%	-0.7%
114th	Gambia, The	28.51%	-1.9%
115th	Cuba	28.44%	1.9%
116th	Eswatini	28.36%	0.2%
117th	Türkiye	27.68%	0.5%
118th	Malawi	27.34%	-1.6%
119th	Guinea	26.44%	-0.6%
120th	Nigeria	25.18%	-0.7%
121st	St. Martin (French part)	24.80%	0.0%
122nd	Singapore	24.41%	-1.7%
123rd	British Virgin Islands	24.21%	-0.1%
124th	Burkina Faso	24.18%	-0.8%
125th	India	23.55%	0.4%
126th	Philippines	23.17%	0.5%
127th	Chile	22.96%	1.0%
128th	Belgium	22.74%	0.0%
129th	Togo	22.67%	-0.2%
130th	Hungary	22.67%	0.1%
131st	China	21.78%	1.0%
132nd	Madagascar	21.55%	-0.1%
133rd	Antigua and Barbuda	19.65%	-0.8%
134th	Comoros	19.57%	-1.2%
135th	Mauritius	19.21%	0.0%
136th	Cyprus	18.70%	0.0%
137th	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
138th	Australia	17.05%	0.5%
139th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
140th	Ukraine	16.56%	0.2%
141st	Denmark	15.04%	1.3%
142nd	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
143rd	Bangladesh	14.49%	-0.1%
144th	South Africa	14.30%	-0.2%
145th	Lebanon	13.54%	0.4%
146th	Haiti	13.50%	-0.8%
147th	Uganda	13.30%	-1.5%
148th	United Kingdom	12.80%	0.6%
149th	Morocco	12.72%	0.0%
150th	Azerbaijan	12.71%	0.9%
151st	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
152nd	Côte d'Ivoire	11.76%	-2.9%
153rd	Armenia	11.60%	-0.1%
154th	Moldova	11.54%	0.6%
155th	South Sudan	11.33%	-
156th	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
157th	Netherlands	10.97%	-0.5%
158th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
159th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	10.88%	0.0%
160th	Argentina	10.88%	-0.7%
161st	Rwanda	10.82%	0.4%
162nd	Cabo Verde	10.75%	0.7%
163rd	Ireland	10.66%	0.9%
164th	Sudan	10.56%	-
165th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	10.51%	-1.2%
166th	Uruguay	10.32%	2.1%
167th	Mongolia	9.11%	0.0%
168th	Eritrea	8.92%	-0.3%
169th	Burundi	8.89%	8.1%
170th	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
171st	Namibia	8.75%	-1.0%
172nd	Uzbekistan	7.87%	1.2%
173rd	Israel	7.32%	1.4%
174th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	6.56%	0.0%
175th	Kyrgyz Republic	6.46%	0.4%
176th	Kenya	6.29%	-0.5%
177th	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
178th	Pakistan	5.23%	-0.8%
179th	Channel Islands	5.15%	0.0%
180th	United Arab Emirates	4.47%	0.0%
181st	Tunisia	4.44%	0.2%
182nd	Chad	4.19%	-2.4%
183rd	Tajikistan	2.96%	0.6%
184th	Syrian Arab Republic	2.75%	1.2%
185th	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
186th	Aruba	2.33%	0.0%
187th	Iraq	1.90%	0.0%
188th	Afghanistan	1.85%	0.0%
189th	West Bank and Gaza	1.67%	0.4%
190th	Kiribati	1.46%	0.0%
191st	Kazakhstan	1.18%	1.4%
192nd	Lesotho	1.14%	0.0%
193rd	Jordan	1.10%	0.0%
194th	Malta	1.09%	0.0%
195th	Yemen, Republic of	1.04%	0.0%
196th	Niger	0.93%	-1.0%
197th	Algeria	0.81%	0.4%
198th	Bahrain	0.72%	2.6%
199th	Iceland	0.46%	1.5%
200th	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
201st	Kuwait	0.35%	0.0%
202nd	Mauritania	0.35%	-1.5%
203rd	Djibouti	0.24%	0.0%
204th	Curaçao	0.16%	0.0%
205th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
206th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.06%	-5.5%
207th	Faroe Islands	0.06%	0.0%
208th	Oman	0.01%	0.0%
209th	Greenland	0.00%	0.0%
210th	Gibraltar	0.00%	-
211th	Monaco	0.00%	-
212th	Nauru	0.00%	-
213th	Qatar	0.00%	-

FAQ

What was Türkiye's forest area in 2012?▾

Türkiye's forest area in 2012 was 27.68%. This ranked 117th globally.

How did Türkiye's forest area change in 2012?▾

Türkiye's forest area increased by 0.5% in 2012 compared to 2011.

Which country had the highest forest area in 2012?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 2012 at 95.20%.

What is the forest area of Türkiye in 2012?▾

The forest area of Türkiye in 2012 was 27.68%. This ranked 117th globally.

How does 2012 compare to 2011 for Türkiye's forest area?▾

Türkiye's forest area went from 27.54% in 2011 to 27.68% in 2012, a 0.5% increase.

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