Top 10 Countries with the Largest Forest Area - No. 10

Forests cover 31 percent of the world’s land surface or about 4 billion hectares. Today, we’ll look at the 10th largest country in terms of forest area: India.

The forest cover in India is around 720.000 square kilometers which is 24% of the country’s area and around 2% of the world’s total forest area as illustrated below.

India is one of the most diverse regions in the world.

It has broadly five categories of forests:

a) tropical evergreen forests

b) tropical deciduous forests

c)tropical thorn forests

d) montane forests

e)swamp forests

Each of these forests has a different ecosystem that sustains a variety of small and large animals along with a large number of endemic medicinal plants.

Gecko:

Elephant in the rainforest of Western Ghats, India:

Lobelia nicotianifolia, a medicinal plant in India:

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