CHAPTER XXXIII 

 FOREST AREA OF THE WORLD 



EXCLUSIVE of the forests of China, Corea and parts of Africa 

 and South America, for which there are no available data, 

 the forest area of the world is approximately 3,800,000,000 

 acres. 



The forests of Europe total upwards of 750,000,000 or, 

 roughly speaking, about 31 per cent, of the total land area 

 of the Continent ; whilst among non-European countries 

 Canada comes first with 799,000,000 acres, United States, 

 545,000,000, tropical South America 528,000,000, Asiatic 

 Russia 348,000,000, and Central Africa 224,000,000. 



Finland is. perhaps, the best wooded country in the world, 

 Bosnia, Herzegovina and Sweden coming next, whilst 

 amongst the least wooded areas are Great Britain and Portu- 

 gal, the former including only about 4 per cent, of the total 

 area of the land. 



So far as is at present known the following are the ap- 

 proximate areas of woodlands in the various countries of 

 the world : 



COUNTRY. TOTAL FOREST AREA, 



Russia Acres. 



European Russia 461,611,000 



Finland 52,500,000 



Austria-Hungary 



Austria 23,996,000 



Hungary 18,692,000 



Croatia and Slavonia 3,769,000 



Bosnia and Herzegovina .... 6,380,000 



Sweden 49,390,000 



Germany 34,990,000 



France 24,021,000 



Norway 16,848,000 



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